SONAR Producer Edition has a well-earned reputation for delivering powerful production tools in a fast, streamlined user interface. With SONAR 4, Cakewalk has added powerful new recording, editing, comping and navigation tools that optimize workflow for today's professional. In addition, version 4 combines innovative surround and AV capabilities along with precise engineering tools. SONAR 4 Producer Edition is the perfect solution for composing, recording, editing, mixing, and remixing music productions; and for providing voice over, score, sound design and post audio for film, TV, video, commercials, and games.

• Producer Edition exclusives:
• Multi-format surround mixing and editing with over 30 configurations supported (5.1, 7.1, LCRS, etc.).
• Intuitive surround panner: focus, width, angle, front/rear balance controls, LFE send; speaker muting & soloing; control surface/joystick support.
• Lexicon Pantheon Surround Reverb get the pristine sound of classic Lexicon Reverbs for the first time ever in multi-channel environments up to 5.1. Stereo version of Lexicon Pantheon also included.
• Sonitus Surround Compressor a professional, nine-channel compressor specifically designed for surround applications.
• SurroundBridge use stereo plug-ins in multi-channel environments. Patches and links plug-ins across all channels on a surround bus allowing for control from a single UI. Unlink for different settings on different channels.
• Sonitus:fx Suite critically acclaimed automatable effects: Compressor, Delay, Gate, Modulator, Multiband Compressor, Parametric EQ, Phase, Reverb, Surround, Wah wah.
• Video Thumbnail track makes scoring to video even easier, perfectly align audio with on-screen action, auto-snap to frame, more.
• POW-r Dithering unique, patent pending algorithms for converting 20, 24, and 32 bit audio to CD standard 16-bit format, while retaining dynamic efficiency and very low noise, optimized for use with all sample rates.
• Prosoniq MPEX time scaling great for matching audio to video or for loop/sample authoring.
• Dynamic Console with per-channel EQ and assignable FX controls access effect and EQ setting directly from the Console view without opening plug-in windows

System requirements:

• Minimum System Requirements
• Operating System - Windows 2000
• Processor Speed - 800 MHz
• RAM - 128 MB
• Hard Disk Space - 100 MB for full program installation
• Hard Disk Type - Any
• Graphics (resolution, color depth) - 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
• Windows compatible MIDI Interface
• Windows compatible Sound Card
• Recommended System Requirements
• Operating System - Windows XP
• Processor Speed - 1.2 GHz or higher
• RAM - 512 MB
• Hard Disk Space - 100 MB for full program installation
• Hard Disk Type - EIDI/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SCSI Hard Drive
• Graphics (resolution, color depth) - 1280 X 960, 24-bit color or higher
• Windows compatible MIDI Interface
• WDM or ASIO compatible Sound Card