Cakewalk develops computer software for recording and making music. Our products include award-winning digital audio workstations for PC, fully-integrated music making software and recording hardware, and innovative soft-synth virtual instruments for PC and Mac. Cakewalk aka SONAR is a complete music production package, featuring advanced DAW and effortless workflow. Sonar Platinum previously available for USD $499, Worldwide musicians including Emmy and Grammy-winning sound designers, engineers and composers used SONAR aka Cakewalk to produce professional audio for films, music, and video games.

Cakewalk Announces SONAR Platinum Lifetime Updates & SONAR OS X Alpha Testing, and an Expanded Commitment to High Performance

Cakewalk, dedicated to powerful and thoughtfully designed software for modern musicians, announces a limited time offer of Lifetime Updates for SONAR Platinum, a public OS X alpha test phase for SONAR, and an expanded commitment to creating the most stable software program available.

1. When Cakewalk made the original announcement that there was going to be a Mac version, I was very upset. Not being a Mac DAW should not be an hindrence to Cakewalk as true Sonar users will be quite happy paying less for a machine that is half the price of an equivilant Mac.
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SONAR OS X Alpha

This Fall, a free Alpha version of SONAR OS X—which comes with a set of Cakewalk plug-ins and ProChannel modules, works with any Core Audio interface, and includes features like the award-winning Skylight User Interface and critically acclaimed ProChannel customizable channel strip—will become available to gauge the interest of doing a full Mac port.

“Ever since SONAR appeared, Apple users have been asking for a Mac version,” states Cakewalk CTO Noel Borthwick. “We’re excited to explore SONAR for OS X, and open up our award-winning Windows software to a brand new audience of music creators.” Along with this free download, a dedicated forum will solicit feedback on the program and provide support.

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SONAR Platinum with Lifetime Updates

From June 1 through August 31 2016, purchasing or upgrading to SONAR Platinum will give the buyer free, lifetime updates of any future core features, enhancements, and fixes. Customers who purchase SONAR Platinum with Lifetime Updates will never again need to pay for another renewal of the Rolling Updates plan.

An Expanded Focus on Performance and Stability

Building on last year’s program optimizations, Cakewalk’s development team is focusing on a curated list of longstanding issues and requests from the SONAR community. Slated enhancements include a new ripple editing function, “load balancing” to allow loading more plug-ins without sacrificing speed, and updated comping and take management. With SONAR Analytics now engaged and a new feedback portal on its way, the tools are in place for SONAR to raise the bar for performance and stability.

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Availability

SONAR OS X Alpha will be a free download and available officially only at www.cakewalk.com.
SONAR Platinum with Lifetime Updates is available globally through music and sound retailers, and also at the Cakewalk Store

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I’m going to get this out there in the name of transparency, I’m a Mac guy. My main DAWs are Logic and Pro tools, and I usually just have any PC clients convert their projects into stems or OMF files and then just work on my Mac Pro. It wasn’t until a recent collaboration with a drummer/producer friend of mine who used Sonar that I got to sit down and take a good look at what was going on in the PC world of recording. I’m glad I did, and these four features were enough for me to set up my gaming rig as a recording PC and get my own subscription to Sonar.

1. Pro Channel Modules

Pro Channel modules are really cool. Basically, imagine a channel strip with a really sleek design that is completely customizable and ergonomically designed. There are a ton of different Pro Channel modules available, and being able to design your own channel strip saves you a lot of CPU power as well as screen real estate. The modules sound great, often have small preview windows that show up in the mixer channel strip, and there are a ton of them. Sonar Platinum and Professional both come with a large library of modules ready for use.

Sonar comes with a large library of Pro Channel Modules.

2. Boutique Drum Replacement

Drum replacement isn’t a feature that is particularly new or groundbreaking. After all, just about any DAW has been able to do it ever since Drumagog appeared on the horizon many years ago. It’s Sonar’s implementation of drum replacement, however, that made me do a double take once I saw it in action. Sonar has a quality drum replacement engine baked right into the interface. The process is sleek, highly responsive, and a pleasure to use. The sleek visual feedback that you get as you adjust the trigger threshold and filter options allow you to get from start to finish a lot faster than I’m used to on the Mac side.

3. VocalSync

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Much like drum replacement, vocal track synchronization is not particularly earth shattering news. Sonar, however, allows you to line up vocal tracks in an incredibly intuitive manner. By selecting the tracks you wish to align and simply activating VocalSync, you’re treated to a simple dial and wave preview below your active track. Move the dial, make your selected track line up with the preview, and you’re done. It’s a snap, and it makes getting a well-produced backing vocal sound a snap.

Sonar gives you vocal track synchronization built-in.

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4. Performance Modules

In Sonar, what is traditionally known as the toolbar in a modern DAW contains ‘Performance Modules’. Each element of the toolbar can be resized, moved, configured, and activated as needed. It allows you to do quite a bit more than just simply showing or hiding a transport bar, and it really helps to make Sonar feel a bit more personal to the way you work. I was very impressed by this feature, and it’s a tool that allows you to show only the items you need on the screen and speed up your workflow considerably.

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