(from http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-CAK-S6PRO.html)
New SONAR 6 Features:
* Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers
* New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple
* AudioSnap suite of tools includes:
o Non-destructive audio quantize
o Lock multiple tracks into the same groove
o Apply seamless tempo changes to audio
o Convert audio beats to MIDI
o Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length
o High-quality time stretching algorithms including iZotope Radius™, Percussion Mode, more
* Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
* Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback
* Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more
* Analyst spectrum analyzer
* Clip editing enhancements including lock to time
* Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place
* Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom
* Import 64-bit floating point audio files
* Crash Recovery safeguards your projects against faulty plug-ins and other sources of crashes
* Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions
* Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips
* User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping
* User-customizable audio hardware port naming
* Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls
Freedom to Create
* Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI.
* Get the perfect take with the best comping, editing, and take management tools available.
* Record live through professional effects: VC-64 Vintage Channel, Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb, Lexicon Pantheon™ Reverb, Sonitus:fx Suite, and more—31 audio and MIDI effects.
* Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes to an entire project, lock multiple tracks into the same groove—even quantize multiple tracks in relation to each other. All with unmatched audio fidelity.
* Clean up vocals with Roland® V-Vocal ™ Editor, providing pitch correction, phrasing, dynamics, and vibrato.
* Make music with 9 amazing instruments: Session Drummer™ 2; two synths with genuine Roland sounds; analog and subtractive synths; REX, SFZ, and groove samplers.
* Get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces with Active Controller Technology (ACT).
* Control and automate your virtual instruments with the new Synth Rack.
* Freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power.
* Create backing tracks fast with MIDI groove clips, ACID™-format loops, and RXP™ REX player.
* Expand your sound with integrated support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire instruments and effects.
* Score to video with a thumbnail track and output to 1394 FireWire devices.
Producer Edition Exclusives
* AudioSnap Multitrack Audio Quantize
* VC-64 Vintage Channel™—warm sound, dual EQ and compressor stages, analog component modeling, presets by professionals
* Session Drummer™ 2 instrument with professional multi-sampled drum kits, hundreds of vital, usable patterns
* Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase Processor
* Surround mixing in over 30 formats, SurroundBridge™ technology, and Sonitus Surround Compressor
* POW-r dithering
* PSYN™ II Subtractive Synthesizer
* Pentagon™ I Analog Modeling Synth
* RXP™ Groove Box with REX file support
* Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
* Lexicon Pantheon Reverb
