SONAR 6 Studio Edition is designed to take you from inspiration to masterpiece faster than ever before.
At every step of your production, from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond, SONAR gives you the professional tools and inspiring canvas that adapt to your unique style of music creation.

At last, project studios and musicians on a budget don't have to sacrifice features for affordability, because SONAR 6 Studio Edition is built upon the same core feature set and pristine 64-bit double precision engine as SONAR 6 Producer Edition. Fast forward your music production today with the unmatched music creation tools and sonic clarity of SONAR 6.

New SONAR 6 Features:

• Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers
• New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple
• AudioSnap suite of tools includes:
  • Non-destructive audio quantize
  • Lock multiple tracks into the same groove
  • Apply seamless tempo changes to audio
  • Convert audio beats to MIDI
  • Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length
  • High-quality time stretching algorithms including iZotope Radius&amptrade, Percussion Mode, more
• Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
• Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback
• Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more
• Analyst spectrum analyzer
• Clip editing enhancements including lock to time
• Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place
• Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom
• Import 64-bit floating point audio files
• Crash Recovery safeguards your projects against faulty plug-ins and other sources of crashes
• Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions
• Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips
• User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping
• User-customizable audio hardware port naming
• Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls

Freedom to Create

• Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI.
• Get the perfect take with the best comping, editing, and take management tools available.
• Record live through professional effects: VC-64 Vintage Channel, Perfect Space&amptrade Convolution Reverb, Lexicon Pantheon&amptrade Reverb, Sonitus:fx Suite, and more - 31 audio and MIDI effects.
• Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes to an entire project, lock multiple tracks into the same groove - even quantize multiple tracks in relation to each other. All with unmatched audio fidelity.
• Clean up vocals with Roland® V-Vocal &amptrade Editor, providing pitch correction, phrasing, dynamics, and vibrato.
• Make music with 9 amazing instruments: Session Drummer&amptrade 2 two synths with genuine Roland sounds analog and subtractive synths REX, SFZ, and groove samplers.
• Get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces with Active Controller Technology (ACT).
• Control and automate your virtual instruments with the new Synth Rack.
• Freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power.
• Create backing tracks fast with MIDI groove clips, ACID&amptrade-format loops, and RXP&amptrade REX player.
• Expand your sound with integrated support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire instruments and effects.
• Score to video with a thumbnail track and output to 1394 FireWire devices.