Available for free download July 29
Cakewalk , developer of the leading music and sound software for Windows,
today announces a maintenance release for SONAR 4, the definitive audio production
environment on the Windows® platform. The SONAR 4.0.3 maintenance release
for both SONAR 4 Producer Edition and SONAR 4 Studio Edition will be available
as free a download for registered SONAR 4 customers at www.cakewalk.com on July
29, 2005.
The SONAR 4.0.3 maintenance release is a direct result of active dialog with
our users. We view timely product updates as an example of Cakewalk 's commitment
to the very best in product support for our customers. In fact, all of the main
performance enhancements contained within the SONAR 4.0.3 maintenance release
are purely customer requests.
The SONAR 4.0.3 Maintenance Release Highlights
Audio engine optimization to improve performance during playback while copying,
moving, nudging, splitting and slip-editing clips; moving events in the Piano
Roll view; inserting/deleting effects (including delay-compensated effects);
enabling/disabling looping; moving the Now Time (in projects without video);
inserting/deleting new tracks or buses that route to existing audio ports; enabling/disabling
a send on a track or bus that routes to an existing audio port; opening the
GUI of an inserted VST plug-in. Additionally, the audio engine has been optimized
to withstand heavy CPU loads without drop-outs.
The default auto-punch behavior has been modified to automatically mute previous
takes when punch recording audio or MIDI to the same track using Sound-on-Sound
(Blend) mode; this behavior can be changed to not mute previous takes.
Set Timecode at "Now Time” command has been added to the Transport
menu providing a fast and easy way to sync an audio score to external video.
Availability
The SONAR 4.0.3 maintenance
release will be available for download July 29, 2005. Registered SONAR 4 users
can download the SONAR 4.0.3 maintenance release for free at www.cakewalk.com.
SONAR 4 Producer Edition has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $959
U.S. (MSRP); SONAR 4 Studio Edition is $479 U.S. (MSRP).
