Cakewalk® Announces SONAR Home Studio 7 and SONAR Home Studio 7 XL

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Cakewalk today announces new versions of its popular SONAR Home Studio and SONAR Home Studio XL titles. Version 7 focuses on enhancing the user experience and simplifying the product interface. By streamlining the workflow and restructuring controls in an intuitive, logical order, SONAR Home Studio 7 users — especially those new to the product—will have an exceptionally easy and fun first-time experience. Both versions of SONAR Home Studio 7 also enhance the user experience with improved support through new tutorials in the Getting Started Guide, video tutorials, and a comprehensive online help guide.

New Version 7 Features:

• Streamlined user interface for better workflow
• Enhanced Loop Explorer to find and audition both audio and MIDI loops
• Workflow enhancements to help users quickly create new tracks and audio routings for better mixes
• Instrument Tracks to demystify the soft synth experience
• Tutorials to get users up and running quickly, even with no prior recording experience

Exclusive SONAR Home Studio 7 XL Features:

• Studio Instruments back-up band (individual VSTis for Drums, Electric Bass, Electric Piano, and String Section) with a new expansion pack from Digital Sound Factory
• Dimension LE combining real and synthesized instrument sounds
• Garritan Pocket Orchestra for Dimension LE providing high quality orchestral sounds
• Studio Devil VGA+ Guitar Amp Simulator
• Step Sequencer for programming drum parts and synth lines
• Boost 11 Peak Limiter for maximizing the punch of your final mix

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SONAR Home Studio 7 and 7 XL: Choose your weapon

SONAR Home Studio 7 and Home Studio 7 XL are ideal for a wide range of customers, including:
• Musicians looking for a powerful, inexpensive, and simple recording solution
• Bands that need to create high-quality demos
• Solo guitarists who need to create songs with backing tracks including drums, bass, and more
• Hip Hop artists looking to create new beats and remixes
• Students new to recording who want an affordable, easy-to-use tool
• Small, start-up labels looking for a complete solution that takes them from creation to delivery

US Pricing and Availability
SONAR Home Studio 7 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $139 U.S., and $209 U.S. for Studio 7 XL. Both will begin shipping in October, 2008. Registered SONAR Home Studio 6 customers can upgrade to SONAR Home Studio 7 directly through Cakewalk for $59 U.S. Additional pricing and other upgrade paths are available, visit http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/HomeStudio/default.asp for details. SONAR Home Studio 7 and SONAR Home Studio 7 XL will ship with English, French and German printed documentation; the included electronic Quick Start guides will ship in these languages as well as Italian and Spanish.

For more information, visit their web site at www.cakewalk.com.