SONAR Home Studio 7 XL is a fun way to transform your PC into a completely developed music production studio. From start to finish, SONAR Home Studio 7 XL will help you harness your creativity, and, once polished, share it with the world.

With SONAR Home Studio 7 XL you can record live instruments, vocals, or any other audio source. You can also edit audio, MIDI, and music notation with the easy-to-use editing features. The updated Loop Explorer gives you the tools to build backing tracks faster than ever, and you can add real instrument sounds using the included virtual instruments suite. Bring your entire mix together with studio-quality audio effects and mixing tools. When you are finished putting all the finishing touches on your compositions, SONAR Home Studio XL 7 makes it easy to share your music on the web or burn it to CD for fans, friends, and family.

SONAR Home Studio 7 XL adds more value by giving you the tools you need to take your productions to the next level. Enhanced features include Cakewalk's acclaimed Step Sequencer, Studio Devil VGA+ Guitar Amp Simulator, Cakewalk Studio Instruments backing band, and Cakewalk Audio Creator LE featuring the Editor and Burner Modules.

Step Sequencer
New to Home Studio XL, the Step Sequencer allows you to easily create beats, synth parts, and more.

Studio Devil VGA+
Leave your amp at the practice space. Plug in your guitar or bass for direct recording and get amazing overdrive and distortion sounds.

Studio instruments
Home Studio 7 XL has everything you need for your a built-in backing band: drums, bass guitar, electric piano, and a string section with more drum kits, electric pianos, strings, and bass sounds.

Dimension LE
A special version of the acclaimed synth with over 400 sounds including real bass, organ, electric piano, cutting edge synths, rhythmic grooves, and more. It also includes the Garritan Pocket Orchestra.

Boost 11
Get more volume and punch from your final mix with this easy-to-use limiter/maximizer. Boost 11 gives you professional results through a simple interface.

Specs:

• System Requirements
• (Minimum)
• Operating System: Windows XP/Vista (32 bit)/ Mac OS X with Boot Camp
• Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 1.3GHz, AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or higher
• RAM: 512MB
• Graphics: 1024 x 768, 16-bit color
• Hard disk space: 100MB program/application
• Hard disc type: Any
• MIDI interface: Windows-compatible, required to connect to external MIDI devices
• Audio interface: Windows-compatible for audio playback
• Media drive: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD +/- RW Drive
• Webserver access: None
  
  (Recommended)
• Operating System: Windows XP/Vista (32 bit)/ Mac OS X with Boot Camp
• Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or higher
• RAM: 1GB or higher
• Graphics: 1280 x 960, 24-bit color or higher
• Hard disk space: 6GB
• Hard disc type: EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
• MIDI interface: Windows-compatible, required to connect to external MIDI devices
• Audio interface: Windows-compatible for audio playback
• Media drive: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD +/- RW Drive
• Webserver access: Available web server space with FTP access privileges. An internet connection is required for music uploading (broadband recommended)
  
  Note: SONAR does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or NT. QuickTime support requires QuickTime 6 or higher.

Features:

• Get creative with 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks
• Track and project templates do the set-up for you so you're making music fast
• Play and record MIDI parts in perfect time using Input Quantize
• Record your whole band at once using multi-input audio interfaces at up to 24-bit/192kHz quality
• Browse 2GB of loop and instrument content and preview audio and MIDI loops in time and key with your song to create backing tracks
• Create instrument parts using Dimension LE with Garritan Pocket Orchestra and Studio Instruments
• Expand your studio with VST, DX, and ReWire synths, effects, and applications, including Ableton Live and Reason
• Arrange and edit your project with an easy to understand user interface
• Recording, editing, and mixing tools are just a click away and always available
• Print music notation, lyrics, and lead sheets
• Keep projects organized with Track Folders and Track Icons
• Assemble the perfect takes with non-destructive crossfades and other editing tools
• Zero in on edits and navigate quickly with Fast Zoom
• Freeze instruments and effects to get the best performance out of your PC
• Score soundtracks to video in time with the action using the Video Track
• Mix like a pro using the new Console view with built-in Sonitus:fx EQ on every channel and polish with Boost 11
• New Send Assistant simplifies audio routing and effects busses
• Effortless mixing with powerful automation tools
• Sweeten your tracks with reverb, delay, dynamics, modulation, tape and amp simulation, and more
• Control your mix, effects, and instruments from external MIDI devices using Active Controller Technology (ACT)
• Burn your mixes directly to CD, or export your project to popular audio and video formats, including QuickTime
• Upload songs and create custom streaming music players for your website with Cakewalk Publisher