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You can also use the Group Edit feature to instantly apply slip edits to a set of selected tracks: just select a bunch of tracks, and drag the end point of any clip. All of the tracks are updated. Copy and paste the summary event, and you will instantly add the twelve track backup to whatever section of the song you like.

For editors and loopers like me, this is an amazing creativity enhancer and time saver. You can use the Freeze capability on soft-synths, too. This automatically bounces the synth output to an audio track complete with any effects, if present and mutes and hides the source MIDI track. If you use soft-synths at all, you are going to love the ease which this command offers.

There are other reasons to freeze tracks, too. If you have the need to save a multitrack project in a recoverable format that may need to survive for years or decades, Freeze Track is the ticket. You want to go back and re-release a project you worked on in But what about all the plug-ins? Most users can ignore these capabilities, but power users will be glad they are there. The metronome is bussable — allowing you to create custom metronome levels for your headphone mixes. SONAR 4 also demonstrates advanced capabilities in the emerging world of surround mixing and audio for video.

SONAR 4 offers a complete surround environment with the capability of managing both stereo and surround mixes within the same audio project. SONAR supports 5. When you add a stereo plugin to a surround bus, Surround Bridge automatically creates multiple instances of the plugin and allows you to manage the controls of all instances from a single UI.

This means that all of the plugins use the same settings, as though it was a single surround effect. Or, you can choose to unlink any channel or individual control, letting you make channel or control specific changes. If you have ever done surround work, you know what a pain it is to have to use three or four stereo plugins at the same time. It can be like taking a beating.

Surround Bridge is brilliant! This is great if you are creating a project that will have to be mixed in both surround and stereo. I will strongly back this product under any circumstances, and in my opinion it kills its main competitor Cubase on every level, from aesthetics and appearance to functionality and quality.

Any producer who is forced to abandon the DAW they are used to is going to be apprehensive. One of my favorite features is the window right next to each channel where you insert FX. It is as easy as right clicking and choosing an effect, and you are using any of your plug ins or VSTs real time. If you are new to the game, its very easy, and if you are making the switch from another DAW, its laughable. A perfect 10 , beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Quality-wise, it very rarely runs into problems or bugs, and hasn't lost any of my projects yet. I haven't had any problems with it that would detract from its grade, so I have to give it another I realize I've given it straight 10's across the board, but I really think it deserves it. I can't think of any way its restricted or hindered me. It totally revitalized my interest in making and producing music.

Its incredible in every way, it definitely compares to Logic and Pro Tools and is half the price. It really is a Cakewalk. Originally posted on FutureProducers. No, I had ordered What will they lay us?? No problem to install, no config. Large paper manual a is rare to several hundred pages. Video Thumbnail Track —perfectly align audio with on-screen action; quickly locate video scenes across an entire project; thumbnails resize dynamically to project zoom; auto-snap to frame.

Sonitus Surround Compressor —a nine-channel version of the critically acclaimed Sonitus Compressor, specifically designed for surround applications; flexible and totally automatable.

SONAR 4 also provides a convenient export video option with control over quality settings and codecs; powerful presets for frequently-used export settings; export buses and tracks into a composite mixdown, or as individual files. Precise Engineering Technologies POW-r Dithering —provides the highest quality ultra-transparent digital-audio bit reduction; reduces 20, 24, and 32 bit audio to CD standard bit format, while retaining perceived dynamic efficiency with very low noise; scalable for use with all sample rates.

Prosoniq MPEX time scaling —a superior time scaling algorithm that employs psychoacoustic properties which simulate attributes of human audio perception. This 'intelligent' algorithm yields a more fluid feel and flexibility in the sound representation that makes for better Time Scaling. The more expensive Producer Edition adds the well-regarded Sonitus plug-in bundle, and now features a video thumbnail track and extensive surround support.

The surround sound mixing and monitoring must surely be the king of the new features. It's available in the Producer Edition of Sonar 4 only; surround mixes can be loaded into Studio Edition, but are converted to stereo in the process. Many of us may have no particular need for this option, and the surround hasn't taken off as a music listening format in as big a way as commercial interests would have wanted, but for video games and movie work, it's an essential option.

Practically any surround format can be chosen — the software is equipped with fixed templates for many different flavours of the different formats — though your audio hardware may have an impact on what can actually be monitored. Standard 5. Here's what the new surround panner tool looks like when you're working with a nine-channel 8. Moving the mouse in the display lets you change angle and focus that's the crosshair and width the two green balls in an intuitive manner.

Your virtual listener is steered between the available audio channels just as easily as if you audio was simply being panned left or right. When you're working in surround, you'll need at least one surround buss — you'd normally be using stereo busses. And no matter which surround format you work in, tracks assigned to the surround buss will be able to be moved in space with the surround panner.

This is a logically designed tool that lets you mouse the audio anywhere between a virtual representation of the surround speakers and the channels in the surround buss. Though conceptually a little more complicated than stereo panning, in operation it's easy. It's also possible to use external surround panning joysticks to take over this job.

Surround mixing also has implications for other aspects of the software. For example, the bundled Lexicon Pantheon reverb plug-in is now available in a six-channel surround version. Heavy on the CPU, perhaps, but both necessary and worthwhile.

Note that while Sonar Producer is capable of mixing more than six-channel surround, Pantheon is not, and will not load if your session is working with seven or more surround channels. Likewise, the Sonitus compressor plug-in is also available in a new surround configuration. But your non-surround-compatible effects can also come out to play: Cakewalk have implemented what they call the Surround Bridge, which loads enough instances of an effect, whether mono or stereo, to process all the surround channels in you current session.

It's possible to link parameters across bridged effects, though you're able to set up different parameters for each instance if that's what's required. You can't, however, use Surround Bridge to set up a true surround compressor, where a peak in any channel triggers gain reduction in all of them — but that's why Cakewalk have included the Sonitus surround compressor. The stylishly designed TTS1 sound module presents a high-quality collection of Roland GM2 Sound Canvas voices and adds user-editability and patch saving.

Editing is limited, but enough to customise the sound set to your own tastes or the needs of a given session. There are no new effects in Sonar 4, beyond the surround-enhanced variants of existing plug-ins, but there is one new instrument. This is TTS1 above , a multitimbral synth module based on Roland Sound Canvas technology that once again highlights Cakewalk's relationship with Roland offshoot Edirol.

The answer is fairly straightforward: TTS1 is a much more sophisticated plug-in that offers the user much more in the way of control and edibility. It's rather like a Sound Canvas Pro in its approach. VSC 's sound set is rather basic, a bare-bones Sound Canvas. The sounds for TTS1 are much more vibrant, with more multisamples, velocity layering, effects and so on.

The presentation is much more slick, too, with a comprehensive channel mixer as a front end. Click a button at the top of each channel, and up pops a little voice edit window; here you can select a patch, and edit it to quite a wide degree.

The parameters are largely of the offset variety, but it brings the sound set more into the creative fold than might be expected. Each standard voice offers filter cutoff and resonance controls and a 'character' parameter, plus a three-band 'tone' control. Individual sends to the global reverb and chorus effects are joined by level and pan controls.

A closer look at Sonar 4's new track folders option. The drum patches are a little differently specified. Filter cutoff and frequency, along with three-band tone control, are present, but only globally for the kit. How much more useful if filter settings could be altered for each voice, too.

Whether you tweak normal or drum patches, your results can actually be saved, since the plug-in comes with four banks of normal patches and a bank in which to save up to drum sets. Nice touch. It stands to reason that all TTS1 parameters can be assigned to MIDI controllers, for remote mixing or creative automation of parameter changes.

The set is, as one would expect from a Roland-sourced sound collection, uniformly useable.