Bring the professional power of SONAR to your home PC with new SONAR Home Studio Version 4. There is no better software for musicians taking the first step into digital recording. The newest member of the SONAR family comes with a comprehensive feature set that turns your computer into a multitrack recording studio, giving you everything you need to take your music from inspiration to finished CD.

SONAR Home Studio is built with the same core features as Cakewalk SONAR 4. Its intuitive tools make it easy to record, edit, mix, and arrange professional-quality music. It includes powerful tools; built-in instruments and effects; support for DirectX, VST, ReWire, and MFX instruments and effects; support for ACID™-format loops; and much more.

Features

Create & Record

64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks

Pristine audio quality up to 24-bit/192 kHz

Included instruments: Virtual Sound Canvas, Dreamstation, and Sfz

Integrate ReWire™ compatible applications including Project5™, Kinetic™, and Reason™

Add sounds from additional DXi and VSTi soft synths

Never miss a take again with Confidence Recording

Keep perfect time with a built-in audio metronome

Use included ACID™-format library to create backing tracks

Arrange & Edit

Powerful editing: multi-clip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing, more

Frequently used controls are right at your fingertips

Precise waveform display for detailed editing

Unlimited undo/redo with edit history

Navigator Pane to get a bird's eye view of your entire project

Tweak pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any

ACID™-format loop to make them your own

Paint MIDI drum tracks with rhythmic pattern brush

Edit and print music notation

Mix & Share

Responsive mixing with a 32-bit floating point audio engine

All the effects you need: 15 audio effects, and 9 MIDI MFX

Add VST and DirectX effects with full plug-in delay compensation

Customizable Track Icons for easy organizing and mixing of projects

Control surface support

Export your mix: WAV, ACID-format WAV, AVI, MIDI, MP3*, Real Audio G2, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Windows Media Video (WMV)

Burn your mixes to CD with included Pyro Express CD maker

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows 2000, XP

1 Ghz Pentium or Athlon Processor (1.4 Ghz Pentium or Athlon Processor Recommended)

256 MB RAM (512 MB Recommended)

100 MB Hard Drive Space (2 GB Recommended)

1024 x 768, 16-bit Monitor

Any Windows compatible using WDM, ASIO, or DirectSound Drivers

NOTE: SONAR Home Studio comes with 30-day trial MP3 Encoder. CD-RW required to burn CDs using Cakewalk Pyro Express.

Customers purchasing SONAR Home Studio will be required to register the product within 30-days of installation for continued use.