Product Description

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 ACID format loops; and much more. 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 ACID-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 detailedediting Unlimited undo/redo with edit history Navigator Pane to get a bird's eye view of your entire project Tweak pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any ACID-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 (

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4509 in Software
• Brand: Cakewalk
• Model: 10-CWHS4.00-10C
• Released on: 2005-07-29
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD

Features

• Professional power of SONAR for musicians new to digital recording
• Record, edit, arrange, and mix 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks
• 24-bit, 192 kHz audio engine; 32-bit floating point audio engine
• Dynamic Console view; master control toolbar; track presets and track icons
• Navigator view; project navigator; enhanced loop construction toolset; and more

From the Manufacturer
Based on SONAR 4 technology, SONAR Home Studio brings the professional power of SONAR to musicians looking to take the first step into digital recording. SONAR Home Studio provides everything needed to take music from inspiration to finished CD.

Features:

• Record, edit, arrange, and mix 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks
• 24-bit, 192 kHz audio engine
• 32-bit floating point audio engine
• Dynamic Console view
• Master control toolbar
• Track presets and track icons
• Navigator view
• Track inspector
• Project navigator
• Enhanced loop construction toolset
• Universal bus architecture (up to 16 busses simultaneously)
• Advanced MIDI routing and synth layering
• Audio metronome
• Confidence recording of audio, MIDI, and automation
• Music notation
• PowerStrip multi-effects
• Cakewalk Audio FX1 and Audio FX2 effects suites
• Virtual Sound Canvas DXi
• Dreamstation DXi
• SFZ SoundFont player
• ASIO, WDM, DirectX, DXi, VST, ReWire support
• Hundreds of megabytes of ACID-format loops
• CD burning with included Pyro Express

Customer Reviews

Just a sales trap!
All I needed sonar home studio 4 to do was be a slave to my Tascam DP-01 Digital 8-Track Portastudio I wanted my 8-track to start and stop my sonar home studio 4 software.
"it said in the software manual that it could do this".
I email tech support three times over two weeks.
They told me "SONAR Home Studio 4 only has the ability to "send" MIDI Sync".
And they also said "Unfortunately, some of SONAR Studio's documentation was included in Home Studio." and that "You will need SONAR Studio or Producer for full synching". $300.00 -$500.00

Well, I GOT IT TO WORK! (on my own) and it can be a SLAVE! Just like the manual said!

Why did they keep trying to sell me more software and not help me to get it to work right?

Garage Band for PC?
So far, I haven't been able to fully use the program. The manual that comes with it is helpful, but it seems like such a waste of time to read. Half of the information in it is obvious and the other half is technical terms and acronyms that I don't understand.

Right away I was able to record and is sounds good. I just can't edit very much yet. I think I will be able to eventually.

A gift for my husband
I bought this to replace my husbands old cakewalk program for windows 95...From what I know of the program and from what my husband and son ( both of which are musicians) its a great home version and has all the bells and whisles you can need. My husband is still working on tweeking it to suit him but thats a plus ... the abilty to tweek it to your needs.