Coloring Your Sound With Reverb: Part 1 – Convolution Reverb
With so many different reverb options available, it can sometimes be hard to know where to begin. This series will focus on helping you make your reverb decisions more efficiently by identifying the...
View Article15-Compressor Shootout: Lead Vocals
No question, there are a lot of compressor plugins out there, and they all have their unique layouts, quirks, and sonic qualities. In the video below, we line up 15 different compressors and...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Patch Points Rock
By Craig Anderton Looking for some advanced, interesting, or downright weird ways to use the new Patch Points feature? Here you go: Signal Splitter Suppose you want to split one track to several...
View Article5 Tools To Get “That Analog Sound” From SONAR
With the advent of digital audio, some feel a certain quality associated with the analog signal path has been lost. While that may have been true at one point, analog emulations have come a long way...
View ArticleUsing Cakewalk Drum Replacer: The “Right” Way and The “Other” Way
The “Right” Way: There’s more than one way to use Drum Replacer to trigger your drum sounds. Which of these you choose will depend on the material, as well as your preferred outcome and workflow....
View ArticleMaking The New York Impulse Pack for the SONAR “Braintree” Release
by Dan Gonzalez Impulse responses (IRs) are small bursts of audio data that represent the frequency response of a real life space. By using convolution reverbs we can use them creatively in our...
View ArticleMix Recall Remembers Your Instrument Settings
by Dan Gonzalez Mix Recall takes your mixing to another level by offering SONAR Artist, Professional, and Platinum users the ability to save different mix scenes of the same mix within a single...
View ArticleReader’s Choice: The most popular mixing articles of 2014
by Dan Gonzalez Mixing is and always will be one of the core elements of each and every DAW. Here at Cakewalk, SONAR features hundreds of a ways to mix and process your tracks for personal and...
View ArticleMulti-track Drum Editing – Crossfading and Critical Listening
by Dan Gonzalez In the past 3 articles we have looked at basic tools for drum editing as well as identifying, splitting, cropping, and aligning clips. All of these techniques can be followed pretty...
View ArticleMixing Heavy Metal with the ProChannel & Softube Mix Bundle
The Softube Mix Bundle is a strong and creative addition to SONAR’s ProChannel strip. This bundle adds 5 solid effects, great for any mix, to the Softube Saturation Knob already in SONAR X3 Producer....
View ArticleBasics: Five Questions about Filter Response
By Craig Anderton You can think of filters as combining amplification and attenuation—they make some frequencies louder, and some frequencies softer. Filters are the primary elements in equalizers,...
View ArticleBasics: Five Questions about Latency and Computer Recording
Get the lowdown on low latency, and what it means to you By Craig Anderton Recording with computers has brought incredible power to musicians at amazing prices. However, there are some...
View ArticleOptimizing Vocals with DSP
Optimizing tracks with DSP, then adding some judicious use of the DSP-laden VX-64 Vocal Strip, offers very flexible vocal processing. By Craig Anderton This is kind of a “twofer” article about...
View ArticleThe Art of Transient Shaping with the TS-64
Understand this often-misunderstood processor, and your tracks will benefit greatly By Craig Anderton Transient Shapers are interesting plug-ins. I don’t see them mentioned a lot, but that might be...
View ArticleChoosing the right compressor in SONAR X3 (Producer & Studio)
What is Compression? Compression is a massively useful tool for pro audio applications. As a simultaneous corrective and creative utility suitable for both tonal shaping and controlling levels, a...
View ArticleThe Sound of Console Emulation in SONAR X3
The age of hybrid studios The day has come where digital audio has caught up to the analog trends of the pre-xyz age. Hybrid (digital/analog) home-studios are more common and the need for more analog...
View ArticleHow To Create Melodies From Audio Loops with SONAR X3 & Melodyne Editor
by Dan Gonzalez Introduction In modern EDM music you’ll see the use of audio loops everywhere. These could be created by a third party or by the person writing the music. It doesn’t matter, but what...
View ArticleAD2: Pitch Envelopes and much more than just drum samples
by Dan Gonzalez Yes, that’s right. You may think that Addictive Drums is just a simple sample player but it’s actually an impressive tool for sound design. XLN Audio has the program set so that you can...
View ArticleVirtual Instruments: 5 Tips For The Z3TA+ Junkie
Here are some of our favorite Z3TA+ tips and videos from our archive: 1. EDM Production – Enhance Your Drums with Z3TA+ 2 Insert two instances of Z3TA+ 2. Copy your drum sequence to both Z3TA+ 2...
View ArticleRecording Virtual Synthesizers: The Art of Imperfection
Synths can make perfect sounds…but is that always a perfect solution? by Craig Anderton Recording a virtual instrument is simple…you just insert it, hit a few keys, and mix it in with the other tracks....
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