Sonar 6 is here, almost!

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Cakewalk SONAR 6 Producer DAW Recording Software

SONAR 6 Producer Edition is the definitive choice for audio production, 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.

Change the way you work with instruments forever with SONAR 6’s innovative new Active Controller Technology™ (ACT). Tighten up your entire band with the revolutionary new AudioSnap™ feature set. And sound better than ever with the new VC-64 Vintage Channel™ and SONAR’s industry-leading 64-bit double precision mix engine. Fast-forward your music production today with the unmatched music creation tools and sonic clarity of SONAR 6 Producer Edition.

New SONAR 6 Features:

* Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers
* New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple
* AudioSnap suite of tools includes:
o Non-destructive audio quantize
o Lock multiple tracks into the same groove
o Apply seamless tempo changes to audio
o Convert audio beats to MIDI
o Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length
o High-quality time stretching algorithms including iZotope Radius™, Percussion Mode, more
* Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
* Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback
* Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more
* Analyst spectrum analyzer
* Clip editing enhancements including lock to time
* Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place
* Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom
* Import 64-bit floating point audio files
* 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
* Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips
* User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping
* User-customizable audio hardware port naming
* Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls

Freedom to Create

* 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 effects: VC-64 Vintage Channel, Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb, Lexicon Pantheon™ Reverb, Sonitus:fx Suite, and more—31 audio and MIDI effects.
* Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes to an entire project, lock multiple tracks into the same groove—even quantize multiple tracks in relation to each other. All with unmatched audio fidelity.
* Clean up vocals with Roland® V-Vocal ™ Editor, providing pitch correction, phrasing, dynamics, and vibrato.
* Make music with 9 amazing instruments: Session Drummer™ 2; two synths with genuine Roland sounds; analog and subtractive synths; REX, SFZ, and groove samplers.
* Get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces with Active Controller Technology (ACT).
* Control and automate your virtual instruments with the new Synth Rack.
* Freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power.
* Create backing tracks fast with MIDI groove clips, ACID™-format loops, and RXP™ REX player.
* Expand your sound with integrated support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire instruments and effects.
* Score to video with a thumbnail track and output to 1394 FireWire devices.

Producer Edition Exclusives

* AudioSnap Multitrack Audio Quantize
* VC-64 Vintage Channel™—warm sound, dual EQ and compressor stages, analog component modeling, presets by professionals
* Session Drummer™ 2 instrument with professional multi-sampled drum kits, hundreds of vital, usable patterns
* Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase Processor
* Surround mixing in over 30 formats, SurroundBridge™ technology, and Sonitus Surround Compressor
* POW-r dithering
* PSYN™ II Subtractive Synthesizer
* Pentagon™ I Analog Modeling Synth
* RXP™ Groove Box with REX file support
* Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
* Lexicon Pantheon Reverb

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-CAK-S6PRO.html#
 
OMG!!!!

Stop it boy... I still use Sonar 4... :eek: :mad:
 
Still on 3.

S6PE,almost had enough to convince me,not quite.
 
Ok, let's see... how about Session Drummer...? :D
 
For the first time in the history of Sonar: I might pass on this one. I'm actually happy where I am with Sonar right now. :)

But still...
* Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
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I have to check this out! :D
 
I'm still using version one. I might get V4 though, in the hope it will be a bit more reliable. I only need it to drive a set of synthesizers from an incoming SMPTE timecode, and 1.33 does that fairly well.

I was hoping V6 would be ported to the Mac though. :(
 
To Mac?

I'm surprised if Cakewalk takes that step.
 
moskus said:
To Mac?
I'm surprised if Cakewalk takes that step.
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You have no idea how badly I want to stop using Windows. It keeps losing the USB audio interfaces, keeps wanting to be reactivated every time I change the hardware, and doesn't seem able to record in 24/96 without glitching.

What I've been doing lately is scoring in Sonar, laying down the softsynth tracks in Sonar, and then exporting it to MIDI and laying everything else down with Rosegarden in Linux. The timecode locking in Sonar appears to drift when dealing with epic songs (11-26 minutes) even though it's supposed to be doing a full chase. This might be fixed in V2 of course, but it doesn't solve the intrinsic problems with Windows.
 
I upgraded on the 30th of august to v5 because I was planning on upgrading eventually, and if you upgraded during august you get a free upgrade to v6. Pretty sweet deal. I was on 3.1.1.
 
jpmorris said:
You have no idea how badly I want to stop using Windows.
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What you are looking for is a computer that doesn't crash and has no glitches. Such a computer doesn't exist. Macs crash too.
 
moskus said:
What you are looking for is a computer that doesn't crash and has no glitches. Such a computer doesn't exist. Macs crash too.
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Yes, and I've been able to make Linux crash too. But Linux is able to do everything which XP is having hissy fits over, on the same machine, with the same USB audio interfaces, and it doesn't constantly demand to be reactivated.
The only thing it won't do with regard to audio is run Sonar, and although Rosegarden isn't bad, even Sonar 1.3 is still much, much better for the scoring side. The reason I'd like a Mac version of Sonar is because it's more likely to happen than a Linux version.
 
How can they be so f¤%#ing fast..? seems like only yesterday they upgraded to sonar5.. Still stuck on 4 though..
 
drpfeffer said:
How can they be so f¤%#ing fast..? seems like only yesterday they upgraded to sonar5.. Still stuck on 4 though..
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That is the new strategy in the corporate world. Iterate fast and stay ahead of your competitors.

I am a 3D artist and Autdesk now releases a new version of their Autodesk VIZ rendering software every year.

My only advice to Cakewalk is to drop prices or start a subscription program if they want to keep this business model. $400+/year does not make sense if you look at the overall trend of high end studios giving way to smaller project studios.

Their market has always been the lower end, home recording studio pro/enthusiast since they began back in the 80's. They shouldn't alienate them like this.
 
brzilian said:
My only advice to Cakewalk is to drop prices or start a subscription program if they want to keep this business model. $400+/year does not make sense if you look at the overall trend of high end studios giving way to smaller project studios.
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You can go from Studio to Studio for $99 ($79 if you wait for one of their specials). And I think the upgrade from Producer to Producer was around $179.00. Not too bad, considering... still, the new features haven't convinced me to give up my version 3.0. :rolleyes:

DXi's and universal bus routing kept me going on the earlier upgrades, but I don't really find myself complaining about the inability to do things now.

Stability and less intensive CPU usage might catch my attention - but the world seems to be going in a different direction. More and more features, requiring more power and memory is the way of the world these days. And then it takes them six months to work out the bugs.

Maybe I'm becoming a dinosaur. :(
 
dachay2tnr said:
You can go from Studio to Studio for $99 ($79 if you wait for one of their specials). And I think the upgrade from Producer to Producer was around $179.00. Not too bad, considering... still, the new features haven't convinced me to give up my version 3.0. :rolleyes:
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Dachay2tnr, please do let me know when you DO decide to upgrade -- your advice and help with Sonar3 has been invaluable..! :)

For now, 3 seems to suit all my needs...but I'm beginning to wonder if it's time to move...
 
Cakewalk site has been updated with all the version 6 info!
 
This is an infrastructure upgrade from what I can tell. A lot of work flow and integration changes. The automatic mapping to any control device is very welcome. Not too many additions around plugs and effects. There is a lot of improvement around audio, midi editing and timing adjustments. They finally have native VST support.

This gets them one step closer to Pro Tools from a professional work environment perspective. Along with the 64 bit engine I think this takes things up a notch. Frankly, they needed to concentrate on stability and editing to bring up their game.

If they could get under the external hardware latency issue it would go a long way towards making them number 1. I also think if they can come close to Samplitudes engine, which the 64 bit technology may already do, they will gain even more market share.

The downside, I have to buy a new computer to take advantage of the 64 bit engine. As well ,switch all of my PCI cards to PCIe and hope manufacturers have 64 bit drivers.
 
Middleman said:
.....They finally have native VST support.
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Have you heard that this will actually be native VST support, or is this still just going to be the "integrated" wrapper?
 
It's on their site, native support, no more wrapper.
 
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