The editing workspace in X1b works very well for anything I threw at it so far. It doesn’t take long before the tools become second nature. I find using the Select, Move, Edit, Draw and erase tools work quite well. There are new tools including a Smart Tool that tries to guess what you want the cursor to be. Track view is where most of your editing takes place and it’s improved over Sonar 8.5.3 as well. Once you find the one you like, just drag it to the Track view and Sonar creates a track.ĭrag and drop with Preview is a big workflow improvement. This is very handy for finding just the right file to use in a project. The Browser has an Auto-Preview feature than will play samples and loops when the cursor lands on the file. On the right, Sonar has the Browser (B) which can search your computer for media, midi, samples, loops and FX. Sonar X1b Browser (short cut B), Auto-Preview and drag and drop Keyboard shortcuts like I for Inspector turn the feature on and off which is handy to clean up the screen and bring things back into focus when needed. Inspector contains the current Track and Master and can change from Clip, Track and ProChannel. The illustration shows the Inspector (keyboard shortcut I) on the left. The screen is fluid and can be whatever I need it to be.
I find that very helpful when working on projects.
#Sonar move multidock to bottom of page windows
The scheme is very similar to Adobe Premier CS5 which has dockable and undockable windows that can be moved or re-sized. The Skylight screen has changeable / dockable windows that can be positioned as you like them. Again, old hands hate it and those used to logical Windows apps will find it easy. The controversial interface change includes a new look called Skylight, which is the illustration at the top. The Plug-in Manager is left out and still under Utilities. This is so handy to fix one of my big complaints about Sonar 8 that you had to hunt all over the place to find why your audio wasn’t working or a control surface stopped functioning. All of the settings for audio, midi, file locations and project are under the screen “Edit…Preferences”. The new interface is logically organized. The old hands disliked the new interface but anyone who wasn’t a hardcore Sonar 8.5.3 should love the new look. Windows 64-bit programs can access more than 4 GB which allows more tracks, plugins and events to be handled.įor people who used Sonar Producer everyday. It has had 64-bit processing far longer than its competitors. Sonar has long been a leader in technology for digital audio recording. It can be used on more than one computer, but only one instance of the program can be used at the same time.
Sonar X1 does not require a hardware dongle but does need to be registered. There is a $69 crossgrade offer for X1 Essentials. Sonar Producer X1 is $99 as an upgrade, $399 retail. Subsequent articles will cover other new features in more depth. In this article I’ll review the main screen called Skylight. I have used it on several projects and it’s very stable and much easier to use than the previous version Sonar 8.5.3. X1b was released on February 7th March 21st, 2011 and followed up with three smaller patches. Sonar X1b Skylight interface (click for larger image) Cakewalk finally has a stable version of its new Sonar digital audio workstationĪfter an abortive release of Sonar X1 in December 2010, Cakewalk has re-released the program as Sonar X1b.įrom the happiness that seems to pervade the Cakewalk User Forum, Sonar X1b is now ready for prime time.
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