{"id":3753,"date":"2009-12-10T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:55:11","slug":"building-a-better-daw-with-sonar-8-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/12\/10\/building-a-better-daw-with-sonar-8-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Better DAW with SONAR 8.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blogcritics_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3752\" title=\"blogcritics_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blogcritics_logo.jpg\" alt=\"blogcritics_logo\" width=\"116\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>Software\u00a0Developer and Sci\/Tech\u00a0Reviewer\u00a0at <em>BlogCritics.org<\/em>, \u00a0T. Michael Testi\u00a0likes what he sees in the new version of Cakewalk&#8217;s flagship digital audio workstation, SONAR.\u00a0With improvements made to\u00a0its mainstay features including\u00a0Session Drummer, AudioSnap and Step Sequencer,\u00a0SONAR is transforming into a simpler and more tangible product for those new to the\u00a0music production world.<\/p>\n<p>Session Drummer 3 sports a\u00a03D photo-realistic drum kit with 200+ pre-loaded percussive sounds and 20+ new kits. AudioSnap 2.0\u00a0employs a cleaner user interface with a dedicated transient tool and proportional stretching mode to\u00a0make timing adjustments in several places a cinch. Step Sequencer 2.0 brings more flexibility to composing patterns by grid with brand new tools for\u00a0auto-populate and per-step probability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With SONAR 8.5,&#8221; says Testi, &#8220;it was all about the optimization of the features that were (already) there&#8230; These (features) will not only improve your production, but will get your creative juices going&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0what&#8217;s new and improved in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/scitech\/article\/software-review-sonar-85-producer-from\/\" target=\"_blank\">SONAR 8.5 Producer on the\u00a0The Ram Review<\/a> at Blogcritics.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software\u00a0Developer and Sci\/Tech\u00a0Reviewer\u00a0at BlogCritics.org, \u00a0T. Michael Testi\u00a0likes what he sees in the new version of Cakewalk&#8217;s flagship digital audio workstation, SONAR.\u00a0With improvements made to\u00a0its mainstay features including\u00a0Session Drummer, AudioSnap and Step Sequencer,\u00a0SONAR is transforming into a simpler and more tangible product for those new to the\u00a0music production world. Session Drummer 3 sports a\u00a03D photo-realistic drum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/12\/10\/building-a-better-daw-with-sonar-8-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building a Better DAW with SONAR 8.5&#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":[134],"tags":[326,1072,12,64,222,48,127,1052,229,591,700],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cakewalk-in-the-news","tag-audiosnap","tag-blog-critics","tag-cakewalk","tag-daw","tag-review","tag-session-drummer","tag-software","tag-sonar-8-5","tag-step-sequencer","tag-t-michael-testi","tag-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","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=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}