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SONAR 8 Studio
Only $99 after $100 mail-in rebate! Offer good through 8/31/2009. |
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SONAR 8 Producer
Only $299 after $100 mail-in rebate! Offer good through 8/31/2009. |
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SONAR Home Studio 7
Only $54 after $25 mail-in rebate! |
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SONAR Home Studio 7 XL
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A table rating 7 of the most popular Digital Audio Workstation software products. Two metrics are used to measure value: an overall Functional Rating and a Value Ratio. Sonar 8 PE, Cubase 5, Pro Tools 8 LE/MP, Live 7, Digital Performer 6, FL Studio 8 PE, Logic Pro 8 are rated in the shootout.
Sonar 8 Producer is available at an education discount price of $399.
Pro Tools M-Powered 8 is available at an education discount price of $149.
Ableton Live 8.0 is available at an education discount price of $329.
FL Studio 8 Producer is available at an education discount price of $119.
Cakewalk’s Bob D explains multi-core technologies with SONAR
Being both a musician/studio engineer and a developer for the music software company, Cakewalk, I am in the unique position of seeing both the technical side of how computer processing and code works, and the real-world experience that they provide in the act of making music. In this article, I’ll focus on what multi-core technologies mean to you as a musician so that you can make the best decision in upgrading your studio with a new PC.
One of our goals in developing SONAR has been to allow you to take advantage of the full power of your PC. We envisioned a studio environment with no limits, allowing you to lift your productions to new heights. That’s why we placed no limits on the number of tracks you could record, plug-ins you could patch, and busses you could mix with. And we also built SONAR to be future-proofed for new technologies like multiple cores, multiple processors, and 64-bit computing. We figured a hardware-imposed limit would be better than a software-imposed one. It seemed logical to us that if you upgraded your system, your capabilities in SONAR should expand accordingly. So, let’s dig in…
A precision tool for identifying audio hot spots in SONAR 5
Integrated software and hardware packages for audio recording take all the mystery out of setting up a digital audio workstation. With a software application and an audio interface that are tuned for each other, all a user has to do is install the software and plug in the hardware. That’s the experience I had with Cakewalk’s new PowerStudio 660, a six-channel portable FireWire audio interface bundled with Cakewalk’s SONAR 5 Studio Edition DAW application. This is a great package for home studios looking for a no-hassle approach to quality recording.