Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 6

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Product 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.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MZ7C2W
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,801 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description
Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio 6 takes your music further, faster than ever. Musicians on a budget don't have to sacrifice features for affordability anymore -- SONAR 6 provides you with tools that let you perfect your tracks. Record and mix at the highest possible quality, with a range of powerful features that adapts to your unique style of music creation. 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 6 introduces Cakewalk Publisher, a new tool that helps users publish and present their music online. Cakewalk Publisher allows SONAR Home Studio customers to create a customized, online, streaming music player with playlists of their music that can then be directly uploaded from SONAR Home Studio to band websites, MySpace pages, and other Internet sites. 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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sonar 6.0 Home Studio Review, July 26, 2008

By	G. Anderson "1forHim" (Modesto, Ca.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Can't import drum machines from keyboards. When choosing a drum map close to what I have, it won't go out my sound card. Only midi and Roland soft synths, forcing you to use their synths and hours of editing. When recording via midi, the songs play very slowly forcing you to reload the program. When recording midi, some tracks notes take on a mind of their own needing time consuming editing. TT-1 has some nice sounds and notation features but I wish it had where I can choose a series on notes and change the length and velocity of just one section in a track instead of the whole track. When altering notes in an existing drum map to match my keyboard, no sound came out. Sometimes when playing back a song, the volume and instruments will default to a certain setting causing you to record a new track and reload. This is a good starter kit and has many limitations but I guess that's with all non full versions of software.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cakewalk for Vista has lots of bugs - BEWARE, February 12, 2008

By	C. Daby "Book mama" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this from Amazon and the audio was a real problem for us. We couldn't figure out how to get sound through the speakers. Also, the recording feature would not work at all, it kept dropping out. My son got another one; The old 2002 version (XP) which runs perfect on his Gateway computer that runs Vista. I would hesitate buying this version!