{"id":3534,"date":"2009-11-03T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2009-11-03T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:27:14","slug":"cakewalk-travels-to-japan-for-sonar-premium-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/11\/03\/cakewalk-travels-to-japan-for-sonar-premium-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cakewalk Travels to Japan for SONAR Premium Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/eventhall3.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/RobinBrandon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RobinBrandon2\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/RobinBrandon2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"RobinBrandon2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago, Cakewalk traveled to Akihabara, Japan (a district of Tokyo) to take part in the Fourth Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cakewalksoftware\/sets\/72157622601670151\/\" target=\"_blank\">SONAR Premium Day<\/a>. To locals, Akihabara is known as &#8216;Electric Town,&#8217;\u00a0as it\u2019s where all the technology stores (carrying everything from LED\u00a0TVs\u00a0to music production software) are located. Cakewalk&#8217;s CEO Greg Hendershott and\u00a0Product Evangelists Brandon Ryan &amp; Robin Kelly introduced the new version of SONAR to 870 guests at the event, giving live demos on how to record, mix, edit and more with SONAR 8.5.<\/p>\n<p>The event kicked off with a video featuring SONAR Product Manager Alex Westner discussing the latest features in SONAR 8.5. Greg then gave a great speech on new technologies in the industry,\u00a0such as the release of Windows 7. Brandon and Robin rounded out the day with a number of demos. Brandon\u00a0used\u00a0a Intel Core i7 machine running Windows 7 to demonstrate a few tasks on the V-Studio 700, while Robin ran a Quadcore Vista (32-bit) computer\u00a0to show off the many features of the\u00a0V-Studio 100. Throughout the day, attendees gathered around one of three stages to share tips and techniques on Cakewalk&#8217;s latest products.<\/p>\n<p>Although we couldn&#8217;t see these events live\u00a0in action, Robin added\u00a0some video\u00a0highlights of the trip to\u00a0his <a href=\"http:\/\/sonarrules.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/30\/sonar-premium-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial Cakewalk blog<\/a>. Click on over to see footage from the show floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Cakewalk traveled to Akihabara, Japan (a district of Tokyo) to take part in the Fourth Annual SONAR Premium Day. To locals, Akihabara is known as &#8216;Electric Town,&#8217;\u00a0as it\u2019s where all the technology stores (carrying everything from LED\u00a0TVs\u00a0to music production software) are located. Cakewalk&#8217;s CEO Greg Hendershott and\u00a0Product Evangelists Brandon Ryan &amp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/11\/03\/cakewalk-travels-to-japan-for-sonar-premium-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cakewalk Travels to Japan for SONAR Premium Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,522,193],"tags":[12,428,64,429,147,1149,93,156,127,1052,1150],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-v-studio-100","category-v-studio-700","tag-cakewalk","tag-conference","tag-daw","tag-demonstration","tag-hardware","tag-japan","tag-music-production","tag-roland","tag-software","tag-sonar-8-5","tag-sonar-premium-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}