Sonar 8.5 Studio - Upgrade from Sonar 8 Studio

Sonar 8 Studio gives you what you need for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering. Get innovations that matter, from exclusive features to ignite creativity and perfect your tracks, to groundbreaking technologies that always keep you in control, all backed by the industrys leading 64-bit audio quality. Sonar 8 Studio delivers the "go to" production tools you want with the best collection of virtual instruments, mixing, and mastering effects found in any DAW.

The award-winning SONAR 8 gives you unlimited tracks, amazing creative tools, incredible virtual instruments, the freedom to work with any audio interface or control surface, and the most complete delivery capability for collaboration with users of other DAWS.

Create
SONAR 8 is the only DAW that offers one-of-a-kind music creation tools that actually help in the songwriting process. Whether you are searching for new ideas or looking to add musical parts to existing songs, SONAR 8 can help you break through those creative blocks.

Start producing quickly with over 400 track and project templates that instantly load your favorite sounds
- Includes templates for audio tracks, virtual instruments, and entire projects
- Save your own template to recall at any time

Make beats and synth lines with a dedicated Step Sequencer
- Sequence up to 16 steps per beat with 64 beats per pattern
- Supports odd time signatures (non 4/4 meters)
- Features a powerful "Fit Pattern to Quarters" control that fits patterns into lengths of any number of quarter notes for creation of polyrhythmic parts (5 against 4 rhythms, hemiolas, septuplets, etc.)
- Control velocity offset and scale values in an entire row all at once
- MIDI controller automation drawing
- More: step ties; monophonic/polyphonic toggle switch; global portamento toggle switch with time control; swing and articulation controls

Includes a critically-acclaimed suite of 11 virtual instruments
- Use input quantize to record in perfect time
- Instrument Tracks optimized for mono or stereo virtual synths simplifies the process of working with virtual instruments
- Multi-track method of using virtual instruments employed by previous versions of SONAR still supported
- Split and combine instrument tracks to/from discrete audio/MIDI tracks

Build audio and MIDI tracks fast using Groove Clips and the redesigned Loop Explorer
- Perfect for building backing tracks for your songs
- Browse and preview audio and MIDI groove clips and patterns
- Quickly drag and drop loops and patterns into the track view
- MIDI groove clips and patterns can be previewed with the virtual instrument of your choice

Support for VST, DXi and ReWire instruments and application