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Don't sacrifice features for affordability. Sonar 8 Studio Edition offers the best creative tools, and the most power of any digital audio workstation in its price range. Built upon the same core feature set as Sonar 8 Producer Edition, Sonar 8 Studio Edition gives users the edge in their productions - from recording audio and MIDI, composing with virtual instruments, remixing with loops, mixing with professional effects, to delivery of a polished final track - with the recognized best audio quality of the industry.
Features:-
Integrated Step Sequencer view provides the most innovative step sequencer feature set available in any DAW today
Smart MIDI tools-intuitively use one tool for multiple editing tasks; completely customizable
Real-time Drag-Quantize allows selected notes and events to be quickly aligned with snap settings
Multilane controller editing in Piano Roll view; controller data can be moved/copied across lanes; multiple controls can be viewed/edited per lane to economize screen real estate
MIDI display features including MIDI Magnifier, MIDI Meters, and Velocity Colorizer
Enhanced MIDI editing with functions for splitting, gluing, and muting notes
More ACT (Active Controller Technology) presets for popular hardware
New instruments: Z3TA+ 1.5 waveshaping synthesizer, Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, and DropZone Sample player/synth
Over 1000 instruments sounds
LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter with AutoQ functionality
LP-64 EQ linear phase mastering EQ with 20-point control curve
Internal sidechaining for Sonitus:fx Compressor, Sonitus:fx Gate, VC-64 Vintage Channel, and 3rd party VST plug-ins with sidechain (multi-input) capability
External Insert Plug-in let's you insert and mix with external hardware effects and instruments with automatic delay compensation
Boost 11 peak limiter
Dim Solo keeps tracks in context by reducing volume of unsoloed tracks by 6, 12, or 18 dB instead of muting
Drag & drop EQ settings across channels in the console view
Shortcuts for assigning a series of audio inputs, and routing selected tracks/busses to the same input/output/main
Original SMPTE time stamps now stored with clips with easy revert to original time stamp
Right-click at cursor to import audio/MIDI data
Wave-64 support provides capabilities to record large scale (2 GB+) projects
High bandwidth multi-track recording optimizations
New file format import/export options including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, and Sound Designer II
Integrated audio CD ripping and burning
Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online
System Requirements
Operating System: Windows XP minimum. Windows XP and Vista can be run on Mac OS X with Bootcamp
Processor Speed:
Minimum - Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athelon XP 1500+ or higher
Recomended - Intel 4 2.8 GHz (EM64T), AMD Athelon 4 2800 or higher
RAM:
Minimum - 256 (512 on Vista)
Recomended - 1Gb or higher
Graphics (resolution, colour, depth):
Minimum - 1024x768, 16 bit colour
Recomended - 1280x960 or higher
Hard Disk Space:
Minimum - 100Mb program/application
Recomended - 6 Gb
Hard Disk Type: EIDE/Utlra DMA (7200rpm) or SATA
Midi Interface: Windows compatible
Audio Interface: Windows compatible, WDM or ASIO compatible recomended
Media Drive: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R or DVD+/- RW Drive
