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CakeTV Live SONAR X1 webinar February 23rd – Free to the public
Join Seth Perlstein for a live webinar on February 23rd, 2PM PST Sit back, relax, and watch our NAMM demos in the comfort of your own home. In part one of this two-part series, Cakewalk’s Seth Perlstein shares his favorite SONAR X1 music production tips, tricks, and techniques like using the Mod Matrix in FX [...]
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Computers In the Studio (Part 2 – Going Online)
Going Online It has long been held that connecting your DAW to a network, or worse, to the internet is something you should never, ever do. But is it really all that dangerous to your security or detrimental to performance? What kinds of precautions should be taken? Let’s find out. First of all, why would anyone want to connect their DAW to the internet? [...]
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From the Temples of Syrinx to your drum tracks, get the sound of Rush for Session Drummer 3!
Sonic Reality’s Neil Peart Drums SD3 for Cakewalk’s Session Drummer™ 3 features samples of the authentic Drum Workshop® Signature “Snakes and Arrows” kit of drum legend Neil Peart from the band Rush. Recorded by producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains) this powerful stereo kit offers the ultimate high fidelity rock sound [...]
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NAMM 2012 Videos and CakeTV Live Webinar
Recently we released our NAMM videos to CakeTV. The six videos contain over an hour of footage of SONAR X1 demonstrations narrated by a combination of Cakewalk staff and Cakewalk artists. And there’s certainly a lot of interesting and useful information to be seen (and heard). However, due to circumstances beyond our control, the video’s audio quality didn’t turn [...]
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How Building Cost Effective Acoustic Treatment for the Music Studio Will Help Your Music Production
(Part 1: Sound Clouds) Just as important as having a killer DAW such as SONAR X1 Production Suite 64bit running on a good machine, one needs to take a good hard look at their recording and mixing environment. If you are starting to get to the point where the word “professional” (as in making some money) comes [...]
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NAMM 2012 Backstage Pass: SONAR X1 Music Production Live Demo
Live from NAMM 2012 at the Cakewalk booth in the Roland arena, Cakewalk’s Mike Trujillo demonstrates creative music production and recording techniques with SONAR X1 Production Suite. Mike’s demo features SONAR X1 Producer Expanded’s Browser, Track Templates, Matrix View, FX Chains 2.0, ProChannel, Session Drummer 3, and more. Plus he lays down tracks with Rapture [...]
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NAMM 2012 Back Stage Pass: Yogi Lonich
Live from the Cakewalk booth in the Roland arena, longtime SONAR user, producer, singer, and songwriter Yogi Lonich (Wallflowers, Melissa Etheridge, Buckcherry, and Fuel) shows off his latest SONAR project and breaks down why he loves to create music in SONAR X1. Upgrade to SONAR X1 or or find a dealer to become a new [...]
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NAMM 2012 Backstage Pass: Scoring Music for Video Games with SONAR X1
Live from the Cakewalk booth in the Roland arena, learn why SONAR X1 rocks for video game scoring. In Part 1 Sean Murray (Call of Duty: Black Ops) and Chuck Carr (Twisted Metal) share their favorite SONAR features and break down why SONAR X1 is the fastest, most powerful DAW for scoring to games. In Part [...]
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NAMM 2012 Backstage Pass: Scoring Music for Film in SONAR X1
Live from the Cakewalk booth in the Roland arena, learn why SONAR X1 rocks for film scoring as Shawn Clement (Quantum Quest) shares his favorite SONAR X1 tips, tricks, and features. In the video Shawn talks about his process of writing and delivering music for film and TV and how SONAR features like Track Folders, [...]
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NAMM 2012 Backstage Pass: The perfect computer for SONAR X1?
Live from the Cakewalk booth in the Roland arena, take a look inside the perfect computer for SONAR X1 as HP’s Dan Bennett opens up and tears down the powerhouse HP Z800 workstation. Featuring a BMW designed, tool-less chassis, an incredibly unique power supply, a plethora of powerful under the hood options, and so much more, the Z800 truly is [...]
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How do I record audio on a Windows PC?
While recording audio is one of the most basic function in SONAR X1, it still remains among the frequently asked questions. Within one minute this get-started video demonstrates the 4 basic steps necessary to record audio. 1.) Insert a new audio track 2.) Select your input 3.) Arm your track 4.) Hit record If recording [...]
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Why you need a subwoofer. Or, “What’s goin’ on down there?”
So your newest masterpiece is ready to be mixed in SONAR’s pristine 64bit audio engine for the rest of the world to hear, but are you really hearing the full range of your mix? If your monitoring system does not include a subwoofer, then you most likely are not. While an ear can be trained [...]
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Tracks and Busses: A Guide to Routing in SONAR X1
In any project you will have tracks and these tracks are routed to busses. Sending a track to a bus and not directly to the Master output gives you additional control and allows you to take a group of similar track, like back ground vocals and control the overall volume, pan, add effects, EQ and [...]
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Computers in the Studio (Part 1)
Musician or IT professional? It seems today’s musicians must be part artist and part IT professional. It’s a difficult dance that requires knowledge, time, and patience in order to achieve a level of success. The intention of this series of blog posts is to help with the IT part or the equation. My goal is [...]
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What happens when you send a problem report to Cakewalk?
New in SONAR X1 Expanded is SONAR’s built-in fault reporter. Aside from the fault reporter we have also have been using The Problem Report form on our website to collect feedback from users for many years now. Both of these tools do basically do the same thing – collect information so that our development teams [...]
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Enter the Mod Matrix With SONAR X1d
By now you may have heard about the upcoming X1d update which will be free for all registered SONAR X1 customers. And you may have also seen the press release which lists all of the features and enhancements contained in the free update. However, what you might not have seen is just how insanely cool the [...]
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Cakewalk Artists on Both PC and Mac Are Off to an Enormous 2012
Cakewalk Artists on Both PC and Mac are off to an Enormous 2012 We are well on our way into 2012 and many artists relying on various Cakewalk products are off to an enormous year. I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent some time with most of these artists recently, and even more fortunate to [...]
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Become a master of guitar recording in SONAR X1
Craig Anderton is one of the most widely respected pro audio writers today. He has authored more than 20 books and is currently editor-in-chief of Harmony Central and executive editor of EQ magazine. He’s even worked closely with Cakewalk to create two critically-acclaimed SONAR X1 Advanced Workshop videos. So if you are looking for tutorials [...]
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SONAR X1 on a Mac? Yes, you can!
A question I am frequently asked is, “Do you guys make SONAR X1 for the Mac?” The answer to which is no, SONAR X1 is made for Windows. But do not despair, there is a solution! For Macs with Intel processors there’s an application called Bootcamp which [...]
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How to ReWire Reason in SONAR X1
Our friends over at Obedia Tutor have created this simple video to show how to ReWire other software like Reason, Ableton, and Fruity Loops to be used inside SONAR X1. If you already own software like Reason, Ableton, and Fruity Loops and would like to purchase SONAR X1, you can now purchase the SONAR X1 [...]
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