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SONAR 8.5 is the digital audio workstation that offers one-of-a-kind music creation tools to help you right from the start of the production process. Whether you are searching for new ideas or looking to add musical parts to existing songs, SONAR 8.5 can help you break through those creative blocks.
Session Drummer 3
Session Drummer 3 lets you quickly and easily create original, mix-ready drum parts for your productions. Get your groove on with hundreds of patterns ranging from vintage rock to electronica and 20 complete drum kits including genuine Roland® 707, 808, and 909 kits. Content providers include Ocean Way Studios, Steven Slate, Sonic Reality, and Groove Monkee.
Matrix View
The Matrix View lets you enter the world of non-linear music composition and experience a whole new approach to creating music in any genre. The Matrix view allows you to load audio or MIDI tracks, loops, and one-shots to improvise compositions on the fly. Instantly create remixes, sketch out different arrangements for any song, and even perform live with just your MIDI keyboard or pad controller.
Step Sequencer 2.0
Step Sequencer 2.0 lets you create drum tracks, beats, bass, and synth lines with a click of the mouse. Save time with a convenient auto-populate feature for common rhythmic patterns. Don't settle for robotic, step-sequenced parts—the exclusive Per-step Probability feature lets you add automatic variations. Make your sequences even more exciting with nuances like flam, swing, and time-offset.
Arpeggiator
Use the new per-track Arpeggiator to create new sections for your songs, breathe life into stale chord progressions, and discover new musical lines and hooks. With one key click you can experience sweeping staccato parts, chord strums, and lightning-fast runs to add new layers of sound to your productions.
Rapture LE
Rapture LE is a special version of the award-winning Rapture synthesizer. It includes over 200 programs & hundreds of oscillator shapes. Quickly load production-ready patches from growling leads to bumpin' basses and spacious pads—ideal for today's pop, dance, and electronic music.
TruePianos Amber
TruePianos Amber is a VSTi that provides realistic piano sounds, superb playability, and acoustic-style responsiveness. Get brilliant sounds with low CPU usage for optimal performance.
Dimension Pro
Your go-to instrument. Allows you to add both real and synthesized instrument sounds to your projects including synths, strings, basses, acoustic and electric guitars, vocal hits and more. Its immense 7 GB content library, featuring 2200+ programs plus the Digital Sound Factory Vol. 2 Classic Keys Pack, gives you endless possibilities.
Media Browser
The Media Browser lets you browse and preview audio and MIDI groove clips and patterns. Quickly build backing tracks for your song and preview MIDI with the virtual instrument of your choice.
Recording MIDI and Digital Audio
SONAR 8.5 provides the most comprehensive recording features of any DAW on the market today. It's designed to meet the needs of even the most demanding professional—whether recording a solo performance, a band, or even an orchestra.
Guitar Rig 3 LE
Guitar Rig 3 LE allows you to plug-in to the award-winning guitar amp modeler from Native Instruments. It includes 3 amps & cabinets, 11 effects, tuner, metronome, and over 50 presets.
Track Templates
Track Templates make it easy to get your project started. SONAR includes a variety of templates for audio, virtual instrument tracks, and even entire projects. Save your own templates and recall them instantly any time you need that sound.
Pure power—SONAR pioneered support for multicore and multiprocessor computers, Windows Vista, and x64 processing, and now version 8.5 is the first DAW for Windows 7. SONAR is optimized for high track count/low latency performance and a more responsive user experience. With version 8.5 we’ve further enhanced performance on x64 operating systems, and improved performance while recording and looping.
Recording without limits—unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI mean you can create to your heart's content. Record your whole band, mic each individual component of a drum kit, even record an entire orchestra using a multi-channel audio interface.
Loop Recording—record until you get the part perfect, try out different parts for your project, and play them back later.
Editing Audio and MIDI In SONAR 8.5
SONAR 8.5 offers precision editing tools you won't find in any other DAW. Whether you're editing audio or MIDI, it's easy to make pinpoint edits and fix issues you didn't think were possible.
Using MIDI Controllers and ACT
SONAR 8.5 gives you dynamic control of your instruments and work flow. Use any MIDI controller to play virtual instruments. Plus breakthroughs in SONAR like Active Controller Technology make it easy to map the knobs and sliders on your keyboard or control surface automatically.
Mixing Music In SONAR 8.5
SONAR 8.5 offers the perfect mixing environment for any professional engineer. SONAR's industry-first, end-to-end, 64-bit double precision floating point mix engine allows you to mix with sonic clarity using a suite of versatile effects, powerful mixing tools, and endless routing possibilities.
Mastering Music In SONAR 8.5
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SONAR 8.5 allows you to deliver the final polish to your tracks with high-end effects that were designed specifically for the task of mastering.
Publishing Music With SONAR 8.5
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SONAR 8.5 offers various options for collaborating with other studios as well as delivering to virtually any format including CD, video, surround, and even the web.
Virtual Instruments in SONAR 8.5
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SONAR 8.5 includes the best collection of included virtual instruments found in any DAW. Whether you're looking for acoustic or electric instrument sounds, emulations of classic gear, modern synthesized tones, drums, or a groovebox, you need to look no further than SONAR 8.5. You may be surprised to find that some of these included plug-ins would cost hundreds of dollars if purchased separately.
Audio Effects In SONAR 8.5
SONAR 8.5 provides an extensive array of audio effects. We pride ourselves on giving our customers serious processors and sound sculpting tools that you will really use, rather than padding the plug-in count with useless effects. In many cases you'll find more than one choice for a desired effect, giving you options when mixing or designing a sound.
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