Bring the professional power of SONAR to your home PC with new SONAR Home Studio Version 4. There is no better software for musicians taking the first step into digital recording. The newest member of the SONAR family comes with a comprehensive feature set that turns your computer into a multitrack recording studio, giving you everything you need to take your music from inspiration to finished CD.

SONAR Home Studio is built with the same core features as Cakewalk SONAR 4. Its intuitive tools make it easy to record, edit, mix, and arrange professional-quality music. It includes powerful tools; built-in instruments and effects; support for DirectX, VST, ReWire, and MFX instruments and effects; support for ACIDª-format loops; and much more.

1. Easy as plug-n-play: Recording any instrument is easy. Just plug in, check your levels, and hit record. Confidence Recording will draw the wave shape on to your screen as you record so you know you are getting the take. Hear internal effects on input, even while you record. If you need help getting a project started, choose from hundreds of preset sounds that will help ignite your creativity. Once you have recorded your tracks, you can visually arrange, edit, and mix your music with point-and-click ease—all in one view.

2. Create backing tracks fast: Create backing tracks in a matter of seconds. Find the perfect loop in the Loop Explorer, then click and drag it to start building your arrangement. You can chop up your beats, add dynamics, and create remixes with just a few clicks of the mouse. The enhanced Loop Construction View allows you to take control of your loops—tweak the pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any ACIDª-format loop. SONAR Home Studio includes a loop library to get started, and you can create loops out of any recorded audio.

3. Powerful editing tools: With different views including Arrange, Piano Roll, Drum Editor, and Loop Construction, you can zoom in and make pinpoint edits to your project. Change the tempo and pitch; normalize or reverse the audio; preview, move, extend or cut certain sections; add track envelopes. Use many of the same advanced features found in SONAR including multi-clip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing, and more. And with non-destructive editing, and unlimited undo/redo, you can always change your mind about an edit at any time.

4. Sweeten your mix: Mixing in SONAR Home Studio is easy with new Track Icons—no more guessing which track contains guitar or which track has the vocals. Mute, Solo, Pan, and change the Gain all in one view to achieve the best mix. Add effects to your mix, and A/B them with just a click of a button. Professional metering provides the visual feedback you need for better real-time mixing. Mix in a more traditional studio console view or use your own control surface hardware to get the feel of real knobs and faders.

SONAR Home Studio 4.0 Feature:

Create & Record

• 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks
• Pristine audio quality up to 24-bit/192 kHz
• Included instruments: Virtual Sound Canvas, Dreamstation, and Sfz
• Integrate ReWireª compatible applications including Project5ª, Kineticª, and Reasonª
• Add sounds from additional DXi and VSTi soft synths
• Never miss a take again with Confidence Recording
• Keep perfect time with a built-in audio metronome
• Use included ACIDª-format library to create backing tracks

Arrange & Edit

• Powerful editing: multi-clip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing, more
• Frequently used controls are right at your fingertips
• Precise waveform display for detailed editing
• Unlimited undo/redo with edit history
• Navigator Pane to get a birdÕs eye view of your entire project
• Tweak pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any
• ACIDª-format loop to make them your own
• Paint MIDI drum tracks with rhythmic pattern brush
• Edit and print music notation

Mix & Share

• Responsive mixing with a 32-bit floating point audio engine
• All the effects you need: 15 audio effects, and 9 MIDI MFX
• Add VST and DirectX effects with full plug-in delay compensation
• Customizable Track Icons for easy organizing and mixing of projects
• Control surface support
• Export your mix: WAV, ACID-format WAV, AVI, MIDI, MP3*, Real Audio G2, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Windows Media Video (WMV)
• Burn your mixes to CD with included Pyro Express CD maker