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Cakewalk Brings Touch To Music Creator 6

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Cakewalk has released Music Creator 6 Touch, the first version of its Windows personal music studio app that’s multi-touch enabled.

Features:

  • Create, record, edit, and mix your music using the ‘Skylight’ user interface
  • 32 audio tracks and 128 instrument tracks
  • Includes 6 virtual instruments
  • FX including Reverb, EQ, more
  • Overloud TH2 Creator amp simulator
  • Integrated Step Sequencer
  • Trigger audio and MIDI loops using the Matrix View for real-time performance and remixing
  • Drag and drop loops, instruments, FX, and project templates from the built-in Browser
  • Use any Windows 8 touch enabled device and interact directly with the software using your hands

Here’s a video intro to Music Creator 6 Touch: Continue reading →

Cakewalk Sonar X2a’s Multi-touch Support A Generation Ahead Of The Competition

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At the 2013 NAMM Show, Cakewalk’s Jimmy Landry gave us an update on the new Sonar X2a.

Sonar X2a adds a lot of interesting features, but the show-stopper is full multi-touch support. In the second half of the video, above, Landry demonstrates the new multi-touch capabilities and offers his thoughts on where the touch interface offers benefits. Continue reading →

Is Cakewalk Sonar X2a On Windows 8 The Future Of DAWs?

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Cakewalk has announced SONAR X2a – an update to the popular Windows DAW which includes many fixes, enhancements, plus support for multi-touch.

Since music apps first started appearing on Apple’s iPad, many users have been anticipating the same types of multi-touch interaction coming to traditional DAWs. Sonar X2a is a major step in that direction.

SONAR X2A offers a new creative environment on touch enabled devices. Highlights include:

  • Skylight User Interface
    • Pinch-to-zoom horizontally and vertically on tracks and other data.
    • Swiping gestures to scroll through different components of the project.
    • Arranging the work-space by re-positioning, dragging, docking and un-docking.
  • Matrix
    • Touch transforms any touch screen into a virtual pad controller for triggering.
    • Preview, and then drag-and-drop loops into cells in the Matrix View.
    • Adjust all settings in the Matrix View.
  • Mixing
    • Console View fully supports multi-touch.
    • Automate and control faders, plugins, ProChannel parameters, the Inspector and more.
    • Navigate through the views easily by swiping and scrolling tracks vertically and horizontally.

Is Sonar X2a + Windows 8 the future of DAWs? Check out the video and the details and let us know what you think! Continue reading →

Cakewalk Goes Mac With Z3TA+ Waveshaping Synthesizer

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Cakewalk has announced that it’s going Mac with Z3TA+, its waveshaping synth.

Z3TA+ offers a formidable sound synthesis generation engine, with unique per-oscillator waveshaping capability, vast filters, multi-stage envelope generators, morphing and advanced modulation matrix with powerful effects routing.

Here’s what’s new in Z3TA+ 2.1:

  • Completely redesigned user interface
  • Quicker access to needed controls
  • More parameters and controls
  • 1,093 ‘classic’ Z3TA+ patches
  • Over 1,000 newly crafted sounds
  • All new patch browser
  • New filter types
  • New waveshapers
  • New modulation destinations
  • Revamped FX section with drag and drop
  • New Performance Module

Continue reading →