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SONAR 8 Producer Edition is Cakewalk's ultimate music production and music creation software suite, giving you all the tools you need to see your inspiration through to radio-ready, final projects - and then some! SONAR 8 Producer Edition is packed with all the world-class virtual instruments and pro audio effects included in the Studio Edition, yet adds 18 more premium effects, tools and instruments to really polish and professionalize your tracks. Ready to start creating, sequencing, mixing, mastering, and publishing music? It's all inside Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition.---Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition at a Glance:-Start to finish - all the tools you need to make and produce music-Intuitive environment to work within-Includes a tremendous amount of virtual instruments-More professional plug-ins and audio effects than any version of SONAR-Unlimited tracks and track templates, for getting infinitely creative-Flexible tools for editing MIDI plug-in delay compensation saves you from frustrations-Tools to conserve PC processing power and balance CPU processing-Burn and rip CDs right inside SONAR and save in virtually any audio format-Easily upload songs to the Internet and build song players for your website----Start to finish - all the tools you need to make and produce music-If you're taking your first step into professional computer-based music creation and production, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition is designed to swiftly propel your craft. It provides a serious amount of inspiring musical instruments, so you can easily develop everything from electronic grooves to acoustic orchestrations. And if you're recording audio, SONAR 8 Producer Edition gives you an extremely high level of editing tools and plug-in effects, so you can lay out your tracks, polish them, and then publish them - just like the professionals. In short, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition excels at every step of the music-creation and music-production process. It's an incredibly powerful, comprehensive software suite.---Intuitive environment to work within-The creative work environment is as important as the actual tools - and fortunately, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition gives you the best of both. Not only do you get a complete artillery of editing tools and time-saving tricks, but it's also all couched within an intuitive environment. Enjoy fast-access to all the essential controls and parameters within SONAR 8 Producer Edition and rapidly create your music.---Includes a tremendous amount of virtual instruments-With Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition, you can explore a diverse landscape of sounds and musical instruments right from the moment you open the box. You get tons of premium virtual instruments, ranging from vintage analog synthesizer leads to drum hits to organic, acoustic sounds. Just use your favorite MIDI keyboard controller to play in phrases expressively and layer one on top of the other to create incredible-sounding backing tracks and inspiration for new songs. The suite includes Dimension Pro 1.2 Cakewalk's award-winning virtual instrument, offering everything from rich acoustic sounds to atmospheric pads with plenty of tweakability. You also get incredible guitar amp and pedal modeling, courtesy of Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 LE. Or, for modern electronic sounds, you've got Rapture LE, and PSYN II in addition to grooves, drum patterns, and more, thanks to DropZone, Pentagon I, RXP, Roland GrooveSynth, Roland TTS-1, and Session Drummer 2.---More professional plug-ins and audio effects than any version of SONAR-The difference between a good song sketch and a professional track rests in the polishing. You need reverb to add just the right amount of room ambience, maybe a touch of compression to fatten up the kick and bass, EQ to sculpt each sound and the overall mix, and then pro-quality mastering tools to give your mix the punch i