Sonar Resources

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Sonar Sites

• Cakewalk, the makers of SONAR.
• Official Sonar Main Support by Cakewalk.
• SONAR 5 Owners Page Cakewalk's SONAR 5 Owner's Page.
• SONAR 4 Owners Page Cakewalk's SONAR 4 Owner's Page.
• SONAR 3 Owners Page Cakewalk's SONAR 3 Owner's Page.
• SONAR 2 Owners Page Cakewalk's SONAR 2 Owner's Page.
• SONAR 1 Owners Page Cakewalk's SONAR 1 Owner's Page.
• SONAR LE Owners Page Cakewalk's SONAR LE Owner's Page.
• Cakewalk Tips Pages Tips for various Cakewalk products including SONAR.
• SONAR Books Books written about SONAR.

• CakewalkNet, a site dedicated to SONAR.
• Sonar Forum FAQ SONAR FAQ compiled by Rousseau. Contributions made by numerous others on the Cakewalk SONAR Forum.
• DigiFreq Scott R. Garrigus' music technology news, reviews, tips, techniques, and SONAR books.
• Cakewalk's FTP Server Instrument Definition Files (.ins) and other downloads.

General Music Sites

• TweakHeadz
• KVR Audio Softsynth database, news, reviews, tutorials, forums, and more.
• Harmony-Central News, reviews, articles, forums, and more.
• Sonarama Music-hosting, interviews, tutorials, reviews.
• SonarRadio Web-based radio "station" for Cakewalk users to share their music.

Sonar Forums

• The official Cakewalk SONAR Producer and Studio forum

General Music Forums

• KVR Audio
• GearSlutz
• Computer Music / Future Music Forums

Music Magazines

• Mix Magazine: "Professional Audio and Music Production".
• Sound on Sound: "The World's Best Music Recording Magazine".
• Electronic Musician: Electronic Musician Magazine - Covers home recording technologies and techniques.

Guides / Tutorials

• Sonar Master Class
• SOS SONAR Articles SONAR articles and tips published by Sound On Sound magazine.
• MusicTech SONAR Articles SONAR articles and tips published by Music Tech Magazine.

Free Plug-Ins

Paid Plug-Ins

• Antares
• GRM Tools
• Kjaerhus
• MusicLab Midi and audio plugins. RealGuitar, Rhythm'n'Chords, SlicyDrummer and Fill-in Drummer.
• Native Instruments
• Roland
• Saffire
• Universal Audio
• Voxengo
• Wave Arts
• Waves
• midi-plugins.de Midi plugins. Delete Doubles, Humanize, Rhythmic Controller, Split Poly and more.
• Midi Plugin Listing Site Large list of links to MFX and VST midi plugins.

Free Synths / Samplers

Paid Synths / Samplers

Sonar Utilities

• Sonar Utils: Provides access to several SONAR features that are currently either less convenient or actually otherwise very difficult to access. Freeware
• SubSonar: Allows users to organize the SONAR menu layouts displayed for VST synth and effect plugins wrapped with the Cakewalk VST-DX adaptor. Freeware
• Cakewalk Audio Finder Tool Freeware

Sound Utilities

• ASIO Latency Test Utility from CEntrances: Measures the true round-trip latency of your computer audio setup, from input to output via an ASIO driver. Free with registration at site.
• Stereo Mixer DirectX Plug-in from Pacific Soundcraft: Takes the left and right channels of a stereo input signal and allows them to be panned separately to the stereo output signal. Allows nixing to mono/checking the mono-compatibility of a signal. Freeware

System Utilities

• Quick Startup: Allows you to decide which programs automatically run at Windows startup. Good for optimizing your system for DAW use. Freeware
• Autoruns: Allows you to decide which programs automatically run at Windows startup. Good for optimizing your system for DAW use. Extremely powerful, and therefore dangerous in the wrong hands. Freeware
• PsTools: A suite of command-line utilities that allows you to kill processes and programs like nothing else in this world. Easy to use in a batch file to eliminate all those things that still start up on your DAW even when you disable them. Freeware
• TechSpot Guide to Windows Services: A useful list of Windows services, what they do, and what happens if you deactivate them.
• PCI Latency Tool: Allows you to tweak your system's PCI latencies, which can tremendously improve audio performance. Freeware
• DAW Paging An article written by Sonar user Richard Sincovec regarding virtual memory / pagefile paper for digital audio workstations.

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