Cakewalk, formerly SONAR, is a comprehensive audio software for music composition, audio recording, editing, mixing and mastering. It features a full suite of high quality audio and MIDI effects and instruments and composition tools ranging from drum sequencer and piano roll editor to a sophisticated score composer. It's all powered by an advanced console for mixing and mastering unlimited tracks, complete with a pro channel section for analyzing audio and applying mastering and other studio effects like console emulation, tape emulation and convolution reverb. FEATURES Professional mixing console for mixing and mastering unlimited tracks. Comprehensive suite of core audio effects for applying delays, filters and reverbs. Modular guitar amp modeler featuring 3-D mic placement, blending and phase inversion, assorted ambience types and granular amp and fx controls. Mastering suite for compression, tape and console emulation and audio analysis. Bundled instruments ranging from drums and bass to piano and strings. Built in time-stretching and slice-based audio manipulation. MIDI effects including chord analyzer, transposer and arpeggiator. World class convolution reverb with nice selection of impulse responses. VST and DirectX instrument and effect support as well as Rewire support for connecting to other audio apps.