Buy Cheap Cakewalk Sonar 8.0 Producer Edition
Buy cheap Cakewalk Sonar 8.0 Producer Edition
I installed SONAR 8 on an up-to-date 32-bit Windows Vista system that includes Service Pack 1. This PC is powered by a 3GHz Intel Core Extreme Q6850 CPU and has 4 GB of RAM. With SONAR Version 7, Mac users finally could plunge into SONAR via Boot Camp (an application for running the Windows OS on an Intel-based Mac). Version 7 ran smoothly on my Mac, so I installed SONAR 8 on that machine, as well. I set up a Windows XP partition on an Intel 2.66GHz dual-core Mac running OS X 10.4.9. After the installations, I visited Cakewalk’s Website and updated both systems to the latest 8.0.2 patches.
To get audio in and out of the Mac, I used a Lynx AES16e card connected to a Mytek 8×192 AD/DA via AES/EBU connections, with an M-Audio Keystation 49e MIDI controller/keyboard. I connected the Windows Vista machine to an ASIO-driven MOTU 828mkII FireWire interface for audio I/O duties. New to SONAR 8 is the support for WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) drivers. This new standard for Windows Vista provides better compatibility with consumer audio devices that have no ASIO drivers. Also, SONAR no longer requires the annoying multiple application restarts when changing various driver settings — a welcome fix. When I first launched Version 8, I was pleased to see the same GUI as Version 7 — yet beneath the application’s familiar surface are ample new features.
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Previously, using SONAR’s soft synths and virtual instruments required incorporating a MIDI track and an audio track for each instrument. In SONAR 8, an Instrument Track provides both MIDI and audio in a convenient track strip. Although I couldn’t create an instrument track from the “Insert New Track” button, it did happen from the Insert pull-down menu.
The first instrument I launched was TruePianos’ Amber Module, a slimmed-down version of 4Front Technologies’ TruePianos VSTi. At my session’s 96kHz sample rate, TruePianos’ modeling sounded and felt excellent. Characteristics like sympathetic resonance, inter-string harmonics and even re-pedaling are all present.
SONAR 8 now offers the full (non-LE) version of the Dimension Pro sample-playback/synthesis engine and 8 GB of basses, strings, guitars, electronic sounds, and the Hollywood Edge FX library. Dimension Pro is also expandable via expansion packs or user PCM WAV samples. Lastly, for loop/beat enthusiasts, another new instrument on the roster is Beatscape. Resembling an Akai MPC, Beatscape includes 16 pads, 4 GB of content and REX file support. You can trigger Beatscape via the GUI or a MIDI controller.
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