SONAR 7 review

This article is part of a series of articles I have written during my search for a good way to record and mix music. You can read my overview here or look into my articles labeled as multimedia.

SONAR 7

Cakewalk have been in the DAW business for many years now. They have a solid product and a well known reputation. While testing SONAR 7 they decided to release version 8 of their product. I could not get my hands on it, so all my testing is done with version 7. What is new i version 8 you can read about here.

My eval had expired so I could not bring any pictures from SONAR. You can find many picutres in the product home page.

Learning curve

SONAR was easy to start using. Without any hassle I could set up my channels correctly and start recording. There are lots of features in SONAR and I have probably only used 10 % of its functionality.

The manual that came with the demo is online and i chm format. Because of that I could not print it out and read on my bed as I usually do with documentation and exiting stuff.

Features

SONAR has its own mixer. With the producer edition you can easily make surround sound (multichannel)- that is an exclusive feature with the producer. And the producer have lots of third party effects and instruments that seems very promising. 

Conclusion

I find this to be a good product. But for my limited use and wallet this is not the right product for me.