{"id":4463,"date":"2010-04-05T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2010-04-05T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:18:59","slug":"sonar-8-5-earns-excellent-ratings-in-em-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2010\/04\/05\/sonar-8-5-earns-excellent-ratings-in-em-review\/","title":{"rendered":"SONAR 8.5 Earns Excellent Ratings in EM Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sonar-main-460-80.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4470\" title=\"sonar-main-460-80\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sonar-main-460-80-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sonar-main-460-80\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Electronic Musician<\/em>\u2019s Brian Smithers highlighted just some of SONAR 8.5&#8217;s many strong suits in his latest review,\u00a0stating that\u00a0&#8220;although SONAR was already a strong platform for groove manipulation, its new arpeggiator and Matrix view, along with the improved step sequencer and AudioSnap function, bring it to a new level of flexibility and power.&#8221; Smithers goes on to say &#8220;add to that the Session Drummer 3 improvements and the PX-64, and SONAR 8.5 is sure to bring a smile to the drummer in you.&#8221; Additionally, the review sings the praises of the Matrix view touting &#8220;Project5 users will feel right at home, as will Ableton Live users. The ability to have cell-based (nonlinear) triggering of audio and MIDI loops within SONAR\u2019s sequencing environment brings significant new workflow possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/emusician.com\/daw\/cakewalk_sonar85_producer_review\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">EM&#8217;s SONAR 8.5 Review<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Musician\u2019s Brian Smithers highlighted just some of SONAR 8.5&#8217;s many strong suits in his latest review,\u00a0stating that\u00a0&#8220;although SONAR was already a strong platform for groove manipulation, its new arpeggiator and Matrix view, along with the improved step sequencer and AudioSnap function, bring it to a new level of flexibility and power.&#8221; Smithers goes on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2010\/04\/05\/sonar-8-5-earns-excellent-ratings-in-em-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SONAR 8.5 Earns Excellent Ratings in EM Review&#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":[1017,326,12,64,380,1057,1018,1059,222,1060,1052,1053,1063],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cakewalk-in-the-news","tag-ableton-live","tag-audiosnap","tag-cakewalk","tag-daw","tag-electronic-musician","tag-matrix-view","tag-project5","tag-px-64-percussion-strip","tag-review","tag-session-drummer-3","tag-sonar-8-5","tag-upgrade","tag-vx-64-vocal-strip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","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=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}