Cakewalk Announces Sonar X1, Comrehensive DAW Update Arrives 12/8
Cakewalk announced today that they will be releasing Sonar X1, a comprehensive update to their Sonar DAW. According to the company, the design, layout, and toolset have all been redesigned or enhanced extensively for faster and more efficient workflow.
Sonar X1 will be available from Cakewalk starting December 8.
Sonar X1 will be available on December 8. Until then, buyers of Sonar 8.5 will be able to upgrade free to Sonar X1, Sonar Home Studio XL to Sonar X1 Essential is free, while an upgrade from Sonar Home Studio to Sonar X1 Essential is $49.
Sonar X1 comes in Sonar X1 Essential ($99), Sonar X1 Studio ($199), and Sonar X1 Producer ($399).
Highlights of this new version of Sonar include:
— Skylight — a simplified, more intuitive workspace
— Smart Tools — improved functions for improved editing/arranging
— ProChannel (Sonar X1 Producer edition) – a channel strip to expand the software’s console
— Edit Filter — a new aspect of every track that allows users to see and work on only the data they want
— Easier drag and drop capabilities
— Key Clusters — intuitive keyboard shortcuts
— FX Chains that allow users to create complex arrangements of multiple effects that reside in one container, which can be manipulated as a single effect
— Redesigned menus that make it easier to access various functions
— New Track Templates, patterns, and samples that help streamline the process of setting up projects
— Unified preferences view — every option and setting is now arranged in a single view that lets users apply changes as you go
Additional Sonar X1 features:
— Drag and drop EQ settings across channels in the console view
— Automatic plugin delay compensation PDC built into all versions
— Flexible Freeze options allowing for editing / arranging of frozen data
— Track Folders for superior management of tracks
— Per-track Arpeggiator
— Step Sequencer providing powerful step sequencing capabilities
— Matrix View for simple and flexible cell-based, non-linear audio and MIDI arranging with live triggering capability
— Active Controller Technology (ACT): automatically remaps parameters to whatever view has focus
— SurroundBridge technology for using stereo VST effects in Sonar’s surround environment (Sonar X1 Producer and Sonar X1 Studio)
— Surround mixing in over 30 formats (Sonar X1 Producer and Sonar X1 Studio)
— Flexible delivery options
— Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions
— Waveform Preview with per-track markers that show maximum peak and overages on buses and synth tracks
— Clip-based effects and editing
— POW-r Dithering , iZotope Radius Time Stretching, MPEX 3 Time Scaling
— Crash Recovery safeguards projects against faulty plugins and other sources of crashes
— Wave-64 support provides capabilities to record large scale (2 GB and higher) projects
— Integrated CD ripping and burning
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