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which is inspired by vintage phasers, choruses and echoes.
The Engineering suite, for mixdown and mastering, has plugins like the LP-64 Multiband Compressor. And the Boutique
suite offers the VX-64 Vocal Strip as well as Overloud's TH2
Producer and BREVERB SONAR.
It seems that with every new edition, Cakewalk helps you to
accrue even more instruments and effects, to the point that
SONAR offers arguably the most complete set of plug-ins and
effects available with any DAW! Virtual instruments alone total
23, including some of my standard go-to synths: Dimension
Pro, Rapture, Cyclone, Z3TA+, and Session Drummer 3.
It's really nice to have all these instruments included
and on hand when first starting out. Some of them may
not be as slick as the newest plug-ins out there, but they
are still useful to score out a project and get your ideas
down, when you don't have several hundred dollars lying around to
buy that particular latest-n-greatest VST synth.
Da Nitty & Da Gritty
I'm older now, and, well... I'm biased, I really am. I admittedly don't
have much screen time with the other big dogs in the DAW yard, but
frankly I really don't want to anymore. I've been forced to use one or
another competitor from time to time, and I just found them cumbersome, awkward, and unwieldy in just about every task I have tried to
accomplish.
I've always been a fan of having something work simply. For me a software program doesn't have to look all slick and futuristic, it just has to
work-and to make sense to me, the end user. SONAR has always just
worked for me, with an intuitive and user-friendly workflow. Some of that
is being used to SONAR... but a lot of it is just plain old elegant design!
If you want an affordable DAW software package that's loaded with
truly useful extras rather than filler, then SONAR X3 is for you. If you're
not ready to take that plunge and would like to get your feet wet,
Cakewalk does offer up a limited 30-day demo version for download
on its website.
For a small investment, you can put together a really nice home studio with SONAR X3 as the foundation. It gives you plenty of plug-ins
to get started, and it supports both WDM and ASIO drivers, so pretty
much any level of interface can be used... and while you can get started in a flash, you will never outgrow what it can do.
Price: SONAR X3 Producer (as reviewed), $599 ($499 street); SONAR
X3 Studio, $249 ($199 street); SONAR X3, $149 ($99 street)
More from: Cakewalk, www.cakewalk.com
Allen Goodman (goodman@recordingmag.com) is a recording
musician, producer, and radio show host in the Denver area.
http://www.cakewalk.com
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