Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 6 XL | 
 enlarge | From: Cakewalk
Category: Software
List Price: $209.00
Buy New: $149.00
You Save: $60.00 (29%)
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 4282
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp Home Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Turn your PC into a complete music production studio. Record instruments and vocals and mix them with studio-quality audio effects. Edit audio, MIDI, and music notation. Build backing tracks or entire songs with hundreds of included instrument sounds and tempo-syncing loops. Boasts the core features of SONAR with a quick-start guide, track presets, project templates, and video tutorials to make getting started easy. Sleek, customizable interface; updated mixing console; lots of effects; automate
MPN: 10-cshx6.00-10c
UPC: 787537046014
EAN: 0787537046014
ASIN: B000MZ7C36
Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Designed for compatibility with Microsoft Windows Vista | | • | Core feature set based on SONAR 6.2. | | • | Quick Start guide, Track Presets, Project Templates, and Video Tutorials make getting started easy. | | • | Sleek new interface enhances ease of use and allows customization of views, colors, and toolbars. | | • | New mixing console with per-track Sonitus - fx parametric EQ. |
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Product Description
Sonar Home Studio 6 XL makes it easy to produce professional music, without being in a studio. The 64-bit double precision engine gives you pristine sound quality, for unmatched music creation. Active Controller Technology (ACT) dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instruments to hardware controllers, for easier music creation. The AudioSnap suite lets you take complete control of your track, while the Synth Rack makes automating instruments a snap. At every step of your production -- from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond -- you'll fast forward your music production. SONAR Home Studio XL adds value and more power with a selection of over one gigabyte of instrument sounds, Boost 11 peak limiter, Session Drummer 2 drum instrument, and more. 10 new professional audio effects. Active Controller Technology (ACT) lets users easily control and automate effects, instruments, and their mix from MIDI controllers by automatically remapping controls to whatever has the focus Rip from and burn to CD directly from SONAR Home Studio Automate tracks, effects, and instruments easily with enhanced automation tools. MIDI Input Quantize corrects the timing of MIDI performances in real-time. Freeze tracks, effects, and virtual instruments to conserve CPU power. Native and fully integrated support for VST plug-ins, no wrapper required. DropZone sampler with extended library of instrument sounds including a Drum Pack and Bass Pack. Cakewalk Publisher lets users present and stream their music on the Internet SONAR Home Studio XL Exclusives - Boost 11 Peak Limiter - Get more volume and punch from your final mix with this easy to use peak limiter/maximizer. Boost 11 gives you professional results with a simple to use interface / Dimension LE - A special version of the synth from Cakewalk. Features over 400 sound programs, ranging from real bass, organ and electric piano samples t
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Cakewalk Home Studio 6 September 23, 2008
D. Selove (Centreville, Va.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have used Cakewalk for years - my most recent product prior to Home Studio was Sonar 5.0 Producer Edition which I use for Audio recording and mixing. We haven't used MIDI. I bought Home Studio for two reasons: 1. It runs on Vista and seemed a reasonable alternative to upgrading Sonar to run on Vista. 2. After playing with Garage Band at an Apple store my son became interested in the "remix" type of capability building techno type of music numbers from built-in loops and effects. Based on the descriptions I was able to find on the web, I was hopeful that Home Studio might be good for this on a Windows system. Long story-short - it isn't. To be fair, there are undoubtedly some cognoscenti out there who know how to do it more satisfactorily, but from all I can tell it is nothing like Garage Band in this regard; Garage Band has a user-friendly interface directly supporting this capability, and Home Studio is limited also in the amount of pre-recorded loops available. Further complaints: 1. In (audio) play-back track view, the "Now-time" line position is only approximately correlated with the actual track position of the playing notes. I was not able to make any configuration changes to correct this. My system is a dual-core 2.2GHZ Pentium with 2GB memory, so I know no reason why the performance should be a problem, except that possibly Vista is a problem. I have not had this problem with other Cakewalk products running on XP. I need to install on XP to see if this improves. 2. The MIDI implementation - particularly the rendering of Midi into Audio which can be exported to a Wav or mp3 file - is either confusing or inoperational.
Great product overall August 2, 2008
David Collacott (Beverly Hills, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had good experiences with Cakewalk products and this is no exception. My biggest complaint is that Session Drummer 2 is not versatile enough.
 Awsome software!! February 2, 2008
David Shepherd
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Steep learning curve for a beginner. I was a beginner, and it took me 1-2 months to figure out what I was doing. Now I love it, and would highly recommend it. Many advanced features included, that are missing from other music creation software programs.
Fantastic for home studios! January 16, 2008
G. Ledford (Mount Holly, NJ USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the best DAW I have used for home studio use. I love the features it has and the online forums are very helpful. The only thing you will need with this is a lot of plug-ins, although it comes with some pretty goods ones. There are a lot of free ones online that are pretty good too. Enough said because their website has all the information you would need
Cakewalk Sonar 6XL December 24, 2007
Pianoman (CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
With all of the soft synths added such as pocket orchestra and TTS, this is well worth the money you pay for it, just over a hundred bucks! All of your home recording needs are in this software, you won't be dissappointed!
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