Sonar Home Studio 7 XL [OLD VERSION]

by cakewalk

Product Features

• Step Sequencer allows you to easily create beats and synth parts and more
• Plug in your guitar or bass for direct recording and get amazing overdrive and distortion sounds
• Everything you need for your built in backing band including Drums and Bass Guitar and Electric Piano and a String Section
• A special version of the acclaimed instrument with over 400 sounds
• Get more volume and punch from your final mix with this easy to use limiter maximizer

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001JKYT16
• Item model number: 10-CSHX7.00-10C
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 30, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,607 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Sonar Home Studio 7 XL includes everything in Sonar Home Studio 7 plus additional tools to take your productions to the next level. Record live instruments, vocals, or any audio source. Edit audio, MIDI, and notation. Add tracks using virtual instruments or audio and MIDI loops. Mix with high-quality audio effects.  Share your music on the web or on CD.  XL also features the Step Sequencer for building beats and synth lines, Studio Devil VGA+ Guitar Amp Simulator, Cakewalk Studio Instruments backing band, and Cakewalk Audio Creator LE. Sonar Home Studio 7 XL is the complete solution for creating and sharing your music.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It does a lot, but could do more., September 14, 2009

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Jeff C. "Jeff C" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sonar Home Studio 7 XL [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I am going to just be short here. Basically, this application impresses me. It does a lot. I mean, the power and functionality behind this application is amazing. For the home user, it is plenty. And maybe it is my newness to the application, but what I have found is the lacking of wav editing. Sure it is capable, but nowhere to the extent of Adobe Audition (Cool Edit Pro). Fortunately, I have both, so where this one leaves off, I can pick up with the other. The other minor annoyance in this involves the goofy nature of track editing. Again, this has so much to do with my newness to the application, but it isn't intuitive. I will get used to it and perhaps it will become second nature.

If ti means anything to the reader of this review, I would certainly buy this over again. The track, bus, effect, output assignments are so nice. The XL inclusions are a nice touch, and paired with the EMU Proteus Pack, you will have more patches than you know what to do with.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bonerific, April 4, 2009

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A. Harvey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sonar Home Studio 7 XL [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

This software kicks a$$. I bought it because I knew a cool dude that used to have it, and it seemed pretty user friendly. It took me a week or so to understand what I had to do, and what I needed to record my music. But, now I'm up and running and the software does everything I expected. There is a great forum on the cakewalk website, these guys answer all your questions quickly and wisely. Have fun.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good music., November 15, 2009

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D. Boughton "tennisguy" (davis, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sonar Home Studio 7 XL [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I really like sonar and have been pleased with the consistency of this software. Since Pro Tools was still working out the kinks at the time I was shopping I went with this and have not been disappointed. It is not quite as intuitive as i hoped and still have a lot more functions to learn. But it has plenty of power at flexibility with recording that i will surely max out in the near future. I use it mainly as a midi sequencer and sync unit for my usb setup. I will start using it for manipulating analog recording soon as my music becomes more diverse and complex. I probably won't use the sheet music printing option, but at least it has it. I use Print Music for that.