SONAR 6 Studio Edition is designed to take you from inspiration to masterpiece faster than ever before. At every step of your production—from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond—SONAR gives you the professional tools and inspiring canvas that adapt to your unique style of music creation.

At last, project studios and musicians on a budget don't have to sacrifice features for affordability, because SONAR 6 Studio Edition is built upon the same core feature set and pristine 64-bit double precision engine as SONAR 6 Producer Edition.

Fast forward your music production today with the unmatched music creation tools and sonic clarity of SONAR 6.

New to SONAR 6 Studio Edition

SONAR 6 provides you with unique tools that let you take control of your projects, perfect your tracks, and record and mix at the highest possible quality. In addition, SONAR 6 introduces a range of powerful features that address the growing needs of our users.

New Feature Highlights:

Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers

AudioSnap suite of tools includes:
Non-destructive audio quantize
Quantize one track with another track's feel
Convert audio beats to MIDI
Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length
High-quality processing with multiple algorithms including iZoptope Radius™, Percussion Mode, more

New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple

Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing

Modular Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback

Analyst spectrum analyzer

Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more

Clip editing enhancements including lock to time

Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place

Per-channel EQ and assignable FX controls in Console view and Track Inspector

Work seamlessly with VST plug-ins—VST support is now integrated into SONAR 6 and no longer requires an external VST to DX adapter

Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom

Import 64-bit floating point audio files and stream them at their native resolution from 64-bit tracks

Crash Recovery safeguards your projects against faulty plug-ins and other sources of crashes

Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions

Score video with Video Thumbnail Track in Track view

Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips

User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping

Friendly driver naming (user-customizable audio hardware port names)

Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls and color categories for easy customization

Whether you're a musician, songwriter, film composer, or producer, you'll appreciate the many ways that SONAR 6 was designed to compliment your creative process. SONAR gives you the flexibility to turn your musical dreams into reality with the best music creation tools available.

Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI.

Get the perfect take with the best comping, editing, and take management tools available.

Record live through professional audio effects including the Sonitus:fx Suite, featuring dynamics and multiband compression, 6-band parametric EQ, reverb, delay, modulation, and more—28 audio and 8 MIDI effects in all.

Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, time-compress or expand audio, or lock tracks into a groove. All with unmatched audio fidelity.

Make music with 5 amazing instruments: two synths with genuine Roland® sounds; a vintage analog-style synth; SFZ and groove samplers.

Freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power.

Use Active Controller Technology (ACT) to get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces.

Control and automate your virtual instruments with the enhanced Synth Rack. Group controls from multiple instruments together for ultimate tweakability.

Create backing tracks and remixes fast using MIDI groove clips and ACID™-format loops.

Expand your sound with integrated support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire instruments and effects.

Score to video with a thumbnail track and output to

SONAR not only provides the most inspiring creative tools, it also gives you the power to mix and deliver projects with the best sound quality available. It's no surprise that Grammy and Emmy Award winning producers and engineers rely on SONAR every day to deliver professional results.

Mix with superior sonic clarity using SONAR's industry-first, end-to-end 64-bit double precision floating point mix engine (accessible on 32-bit computers).

Work natively with 64 bit audio, streaming 64 bit audio tracks end-to-end through your mixes.

Mix projects with complete flexibility using SONAR's new console view, Universal Bus Architecture, automatic plug-in delay compensation, bus waveform preview, configurable metering, and unlimited tracks, busses, sends and inserts.

Automate your mix with freehand and pattern-based envelopes, and individual read and write control of all tracks, instruments, and effects.

Deliver pristine productions with Windowed Sinc sample rate conversion, 64-bit audio files, and support for virtually any audio format, bit-depth, and sample rate.

Connect any Windows-compatible MIDI devices, control surfaces, and WDM or ASIO audio interfaces (including Pro Tools | HD™ or M-Box™).

Deliver productions at virtually any bit-depth, and sample rate (up to 64-bit, 500 Hz). Ensure pristine quality with Windowed Sinc sample rate conversion. Native 64-bit audio is the highest quality in the industry.

Deliver audio and video in virtually any format including WAV, QuickTime, MP3, WMA. Export to OMFI and Broadcast WAV for collaboration with Pro Tools and other DAWs.

Customize SONAR's look and feel with new interface enhancements. Put your favorite features right at your fingertips.

Take your productions deeper with superior support for multi-processor and multi-core computers.

SONAR 6 includes both a 32-bit version for Windows XP and a 64-bit version for use with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Experience 20-30% processing performance gains and access up to 128 GB of RAM on x64.

System Requirements

Windows XP

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon™ XP 1500+ or higher

256 MB

1024x768, 16-bit color

100 MB for full program installation

Windows-compatible MIDI Interface (Required to connect external MIDI devices)

Windows-compatible Audio Interface (See www.cakewalk.com/PCresource for a complete list of recommended audio devices)

DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive