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1. Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial update#
2. Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial upgrade#
3. Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial code#
4. Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial free#

Nothing you can't do elsewhere, but it puts bus creation on a single page. Busing gets the Insert Send Assistant, which lets you to either assign a track or bus to an existing bus, or create a new bus, give it a name, assign effects (pre or post-fader), and then chose an output. Live Bounce lets you assign live inputs to a bounce rather than just internal tracks, making it simpler to integrate hardware processing and instrumentation. Other improvements include Anytime Recording-enabling recording from playback without stopping, which wasn't possible in earlier versions. If you have a lot of tracks on screen and the tracks are squished, it is hard to find the differentiating areas, but the tool is a real timesaver when working on several expanded tracks at one time or several clips on a single track. Click in the center, however, and you can edit the clip itself. At the top or bottom of a clip you grab the entire thing.

Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial free#

The Free Edit Tool lets you select a clip or edit it, depending where on the timeline's track you click. It is not as psychedelic as Sony Vegas's clip alignment, which highlights the start point of every clip with the clip color as you align, but in practice, it works about as well. It basically provides a vertical line on top of your curser that runs through the tracks.

Another handy feature is the Aim Assist Curser for placing audio clips in line with others. You can choose the synth you want to use with the loops from a list with just a mouse click, so you can quickly switch to the right synth from within the app itself, and you can try out the loops with the song running. This lets you preview audio clips and MIDI loops to your synth of choice and then drag and drop them onto the timeline. Loop Explorer 2 is another feature I quickly learned to lean on. This initially confused me, since the necessary folder dialogs don't come up unless you click on the subfolders, not the main one. With SONAR 8, you can switch between the old folder and the new streamlined look. This took up valuable screen space unless minimized, and it simply felt clunky. I do a lot of work with soft synths and a new Instrument track folder replaces the previous three-level folder that included the synth folder and sub-audio and MIDI tracks. The list of new features is long, so I'll just hit the highlights here.

Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial code#

I haven't had any of the infrequent crashes with earlier versions (knock on wood), so kudos to code optimization and another reason to put off buying a new computer. But Cakewalk claims that SONAR 8 now runs 5 to 20 percent more efficiently than version 7, and I know other folks who have noticed an improvement to back up this claim. Personally, I hardly ever stress my dual-core computer at home, since I don't run twenty guitars or thirty tracks of vocals with lots of plug-ins.

Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial upgrade#

The least sexy aspect of any upgrade is under-the-hood work, since you can't see it or play with it.

Sonar 8 beatscape tutorial update#

There are three areas upon which any DAW update can improve: performance, features, and those new goodies. SONAR comes in Studio and Producer editions-both use the same engine but Producer adds surround sound and a lot more goodies. (Version 6 was reviewed in Tape Op #61.) SONAR remains Windows-only (though it will run on a Mac via Boot Camp), working on both 32 and 64-bit flavors of XP and Vista. It fit my way of working, and I've stuck with it all the way to the latest version. I started using SONAR years ago for work at home.