SONAR Courses ?

I don't know of any online courses for Sonar, but this video is a good place to start. http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SWA/SONAR8/

My course is listed here as one of the Training Partners of Cakewalk (MTEC)
http://www.cakewalk.com/Education/Learning-Zone.aspx

Just as an FYI, my SONAR Power books are also available: http://garrigus.com/?PowerBooks

Best regards,
Scott

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AHHH I see CJ did jump in haha

Thanks CJ I will look in to it and get back to you :)

I took the Pro Tools certification course with Pro Media, just to add some legitimacy to my resume. It was a great course, with an excellent instructor (Mihai at Stankonia in Atlanta). It was however a little on the pricey side. I think it was ~$3000 for the two weeks. I lived right down the street so that didnt include motel or food costs that some had to pay)

While I would recommend a classroom environment just for the forced learning experience and interaction, I can honestly say your best bet would be to purchase Sonar Power, and just go through it chapter by chapter with Sonar open, and explore everything. This is essentially what I did with Sonar Power 4. There was really no new material for me to learn when it came to being introduced to Pro Tools 7 (granted they operate slightly different but they do the exact same thing), and the class pretty much consisted of the same thing - going through the reading material chapter by chapter.

Thanks Fog, Perfectprint, and Primetime! I really appreciate the recommendations.

Scott

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Norrie,

In addition to the Sonar Help and User's Guide, don't overlook the Sonar 8.5 Reference Guide.pdf file that comes with Sonar 8.5. It is a 25 MB PDF file that contains 1576 pages of detailed Sonar information. IMO, it is far more useful than the User's Guide.

There are also some very good free videos that are referenced on the first page of the Sonar Producer & Studio Forum pages (e.g., Sonar: Master Class - Drum Production Episode I) that are excellent. There are some user produced videos on YouTube that illustrate various Sonar capabilities that can be quite useful too.

Good luck and have fun with your Sonar adventure.

Regards,
bbent

I went to a community/adult learning college in London who were offering courses in music tech and production and asked them what software they used and Sonar was not one of them Reason, Logic, Protools and Cubase is pretty much what you'll find in the UK although that was about 6 years ago so I rekon Albleton and maybe even Reaper will be on offer now.
When I asked about Sonar they said, no but if you're interested in running courses your self then please do feel free :)

Of course another on line education in sonar and all things to do with music production is right here on this very forum, trouble is you'll find equal amounts of conjecture along side, "and often disguised", as fact :(
Steve

Here are a few Videos are articles.
 
https://www.youtube.com/u..CakewalkSoftware/videos

https://www.soundonsound.com/search/all/Cakewalk
 
 
 

garrigus
I'll be publishing Cakewalk tutorials on this channel as well...
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottGarrigus?sub_confirmation=1

Nice Scott,
 
I can't wait to see what you will add.

I'm just in the process of making a bunch of video tutorials that I needed to help a few family members and my band mate. Instead of sitting with them all day in turn I thought this will work just as well So far I've done 5 on the very very basics as these people have never used a computer for music ever. But as I go along I'll cover more advanced material. And ya it by no means a professional video, Its free. There is enough free stuff on youtube that I wouldn't run out and spend money until you really find you've hit a brick wall.  
http://www.cactusmusic.ca/tutorial-videos