Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio 4

Cakewalk Home Studio series has always been a trimmed down version of their flagship product at a more affordable price for the home studio owner. However, from looking at the feature set of this newest version, it certainly seems like an app that could satisfy most any home/project studio owner and many semi-pros as well.
Features:
While Sonar Home Studio does do everything you would expect, that being audio and MIDI recording, MIDI step-time sequencing, VST and DirectX plugin and instrument support, support for low-latency ASIO and WDM drivers as well as the old-school DirectSound drivers, it also does much more which one wouldn't typically expect out of such a program.
* It has a video playback window which allows the user to create sound tracks and add sound effects to a project. It supports AVI and MPEG video formats and will export video as well.
* It also has a music notation tool to allow the user to create and print musical scores.
* It allows export of mp3 and WMA audio for easy internet sharing.
* It contains a loop explorer to allow the user to find and use ACID-format loops quickly and easily, and comes bundled with a loop library.
* It comes bundled with a light version of Cakewalk Pyro to burn your music to CD.
* It also comes packed with a collection of tutorials to help you learn and understand the application, and get you up and recording quickly.
* Bundled with a collection of plugins that include chorus, delay, reverb, EQ and others (as stated earlier, 15 in total) it has enough to meet beginner's needs. Can also add any of hundreds of third party plugins with the previously mentioned VST and DirectX support.
* As mentioned earlier, the application packs instruments along with it as well including the Virtual Sound Canvas, Dreamstation and the Sfz SoundFont player. The VST and DirectX support also allows the user to add any third party VSTi or DXi as well.
* The user can use ReWire applications such as Reason, ReBirth, Project5, Kinetic and others with the ReWire support.
As seen in this article, Sonar Home Studio version 4 brings with it a whole batch of new features and functions. This new version can be an ideal choice for the new home studio owner that is on a limited budget but wants to buy a recording application that can help them in the short term, and be a good learning experience for upgrading applications later on.

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