I have looked at other products before that cost a fair amount of money and they would come with a manual that was like 5 pages long or in some cases no manual at all and that’s a real drag. One thing I liked about the Sonar Producer manual was it was a good size manual (205 pages) with quite a bit of information regarding the features of Sonar Producer.
While waiting for the install to complete that gave me some time to go over the manual that you can see in the picture below.
While on the topic of the install be prepared to lose around 30 gigs of your hard drive if you select a full install. Sonar Producer 8.5 has several DVD’s worth of content that contain gigs and gigs of samples and all that takes a while to install. The first thing you’ll notice about Sonar Producer is that if you select a full install you will be waiting for quite a while for the install to finish. So like a little kid at Christmas time, I was really itching to get Sonar Producer 8.5 installed and tested out. Actually that’s not entirely true, I had messed around with Cakewalk the MIDI editor many many years ago but I hadn’t really seen any modern day products from cakewalk. I have in the past looked at other DAW programs from different companies but just never got around to seeing what cakewalk had to offer. I have to say when I first seen screen shots of Sonar Producer 8.5 I was quite excited to say the least. Instructions and Cakewalk's privacy policy will be detailed to you during launch of the product.įrom here on out when I refer to the term DAW that means Digital Audio Workstation and when I refer to UI that means User Interface. Note: Registration is required for continued use of product, and may be done by Internet or telephone. An internet connection is required for music uploading. Webserver access: Available web server space with FTP access privileges (Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges. Hard disc type: EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA Hard disk space: 30GB for program and content Graphics: 1280 x 960, 24-bit color or higher Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or higher Media drive: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD +/- RW drive (for installation because SONAR is presented on DVD media, so DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW) Audio interface: Windows-compatible (for audio playback) MIDI interface: Windows-compatible (Required to connect external MIDI devices) Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 1.3GHz, AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or higher
Operating System: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2 (32 and 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit) SONAR does not officially support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP 圆4 or pre-release (RTM) versions of Windows7 Today I get a chance to look at one of the most stunning Multi-Track Audio production tools I have seen in a long timeīefore I get too far into this review, I should mention the system requirements for Sonar Producer 8.5.