Sonar Power Studio

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Cakewalk® Announces SONAR Power Studio™ 250 and SONAR Power Studio 660 Music Production Systems

—Complete music production system featuring SONAR 5 Studio Edition, integrated Roland® V-Vocal™ technology, and the first Cakewalk audio/MIDI interfaces—

Anaheim CA, WINTER NAMM 2006 (booth 6800), (January 19, 2006) — Cakewalk, developer of the best-selling music and sound software, announces SONAR Power Studio 250 and SONAR Power Studio 660 integrated music production systems, the newest additions to the SONAR product line of feature-rich recording tools. SONAR Power Studio music production systems are designed for musicians who need a complete production solution that couples high-quality hardware and software with the added benefit of portability, and without the compromise of LE versions of software.

SONAR Power Studio production systems contain the critically-acclaimed SONAR 5 Studio Edition and integrated Roland V-Vocal technology, paired with the high-quality Cakewalk SPS-66 24-bit/192 kHz FireWire audio/MIDI interface in SONAR Power Studio 660, and the Cakewalk SPS-25 24-bit/96 kHz USB audio/MIDI interface with SONAR Power Studio 250.

Both solution offerings take just minutes to setup, and provide a seamless, integrated production system that frees customers to create music whenever, and wherever inspiration strikes.

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now here's what you get

SONAR Power Studio 250

SONAR Power Studio 250 combines powerful audio software with reliable, great sounding audio hardware to form a complete, affordable, and portable USB music production solution.

Record, edit, and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI using unlimited instruments and effects
Cakewalk SPS-25 audio/MIDI interface offering 2-In/2-Out 24 bit/96 kHz performance
Take SONAR Power Studio 250 on the road with USB bus power
Record pristine audio with 2 XLR/TRS combo jacks, professional-grade mic preamps, +48V phantom power, +4 dBu balanced output, and built-in analog limiter
Get perfect vocal takes with Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase technology offering pitch correction, phrase adjustment, harmonization, and more
Get great guitar tones with the included Amplitube LE guitar amp simulator
Mix and record with 29 professional audio effects and 8 MIDI effects
Perform and record with 5 built-in software instruments including the Roland TTS-1 and Roland Groovesynth
Create backing tracks fast using MIDI groove clips and ACID™-format loops
Achieve highest-quality mixes with SONAR’s cutting edge, end-to-end 64-bit double precision floating point audio engine
Export to industry-standard formats for mix delivery and collaboration with other studios: WAV, Broadcast Wave, AVI, OMFI, QuickTime 6, WMA 9, MP3, and more
SONAR Power Studio 660

SONAR Power Studio 660 combines powerful audio software with reliable, great sounding audio hardware to form the perfect FireWire music production system.

Record, edit, and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI using unlimited instruments and effects
Cakewalk SPS-66 Audio MIDI interface offering 6-In/6-Out, 24-bit/96 kHz performance or 4-In/4-Out, 24-bit/192 kHz performance
Take SONAR Power Studio 660 on the road with FireWire bus power
Record pristine audio with 2 XLR/TRS combo jacks, professional-grade mic preamps, +48V phantom power, +4 dB balanced input and output, and built-in analog limiter
Get perfect vocal takes with Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase technology offering pitch correction, phrase adjustment, harmonization, and more
Get great guitar tones with the included Amplitube LE guitar amp simulator
Mix and record with 29 professional audio effects and 8 MIDI effects
Perform and record with 5 built-in software instruments including the Roland TTS-1 and Roland Groovesynth
Create backing tracks fast using MIDI groove clips and ACID™-format loops
Achieve highest-quality mixes with SONAR’s cutting edge, end-to-end 64-bit double precision floating point audio engine
Export to industry-standard formats for mix delivery and collaboration with other studios: WAV, Broadcast Wave, AVI, OMFI, QuickTime 6, WMA 9, MP3, and more

Now what I do not get is how these prices can be so low for hardware and software.

US Pricing and Availability

The SONAR Power Studio 250 and SONAR Power Studio 660 will ship in the United States with SONAR Studio Edition and Cakewalk hardware. SONAR Power Studio 250 has an estimated street price of $449 U.S., SONAR Power Studio 660 is $599 U.S. Both will be available at select music and sound retailers April 2006. For more information, visit Cakewalk on the web at www.cakewalk.com; or call 888-CAKEWALK, +1 (617) 423-9004 outside U.S.

International Naming, Pricing, and Availability

Outside North America, the SONAR Power Studio offerings will be marketed as SONAR Power Studio 25 (USB version) and SONAR Power Studio 66 (FireWire version); The software ships with English, French, German, and Spanish versions of SONAR Studio Edition, and the Edirol UA-25 (SONAR Power Studio 25) or FA-66 (SONAR Power Studio 66) audio/MIDI interfaces, all contained within one box respectively.

The international versions of the SONAR Power Studio software components have been optimized for the included Edirol Hardware. There is one multi-lingual getting started guide and one User’s Guide that covers both the hardware and software, and customers only need to call one company for tech support.

Available through Cakewalk’s Roland and Edirol distribution partners, Europe's suggested retail price for SONAR Power Studio 25 and SONAR Power Studio 66 are €479 and €669 (including VAT) respectively; U.K. pricing is £329 and £459 (including VAT) respectively; and will be available February 2006. For localized pricing and availability visit:

Seems kinda low doesn't it?

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btw that includes a full version of sonar 5 studio edition.

[Stupid American Pig]

WEll I got Sonar 5 PE and an edirol UA-1000 and I can say that the combination works well. The UA-25 is a scaled back UA-1000 as I recall.

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WEll I got Sonar 5 PE and an edirol UA-1000 and I can say that the combination works well. The UA-25 is a scaled back UA-1000 as I recall.

that's overseas....here it ships with firewire hardware (I'm sure edirol as well), I have a UA 5, basically it's the 25 without midi....it's awesome...but how can a firewire box and Sonar 5 sell for 600 bux? I wonder if we'll get a sweet discount to upgrade?

[christianmusicmaker]

A dedicated hardware platform for Cakewalk products is very good news.

Pro Tools > Digi 002 e.t.c

Logic > Apple Hardware

Tracktion > Mackie Spike

It seems the way to go now and of course NI's KORE as well. Exciting times. Sonar is a pretty stable host already but with Cakewalk hardware shipping with it, we should see some really solid offerings from Cakewalk with a focus on their own hardware now.

The Cakewalk SPS 66 seems based on the FA -66 from Edirol / Roland. Makes sense really as Roland have an investment in Cakewalk.

http://www.edirol.it/europe/details.asp ... d=12&la=UK

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sorry cos I'm a bit ignorant about this. but what is exactly a dedicated hardware platform? a soundcard? what exactly?

[christianmusicmaker]

In this instance yes, Firewire and USB interfaces. It looks like Cakewalk have picked two of Edirols audio interfaces to sell with Sonar. It will hopefully mean an even more stable product as I assume testing of future versions of Sonar will be done on these two hardware packages first and foremost.