Mixing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleColoring 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...
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