Sonar Resources

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Contents 1 Sonar Sites 2 General Music Sites 3 Sonar Forums 4 General Music Forums 5 Music Magazines 6 Guides / Tutorials 7 Free Plug-Ins 8 Paid Plug-Ins 9 Free Synths / Samplers 10 Paid Synths / Samplers 11 Sonar Utilities 12 Sound Utilities 13 System Utilities

Sonar Sites

• Cakewalk, the makers of SONAR [1]
• CakewalkNet, a site dedicated to SONAR [2]

General Music Sites

• TweakHeadz

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".

Guides / Tutorials

• Sonar Master Class

Free Plug-Ins

Paid Plug-Ins

• Antares
• GRM Tools
• Kjaerhus
• Native Instruments
• Roland
• Saffire
• Universal Audio
• Voxengo
• Wave Arts
• Waves

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

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