SONAR Video Archive

Hello,

I thought it would be helpful if we created one reference thread with links to all of the SONAR videos that are online. If you are aware of other videos, please reply with links below. 
 
 


SONAR: Get Started
Initial Audio Setup
Initial setup and configuration of SONAR. Covers setup of audio interface, project folders, and other settings to ensure optimal performance. How do the peeps at Cakewalk setup their own SONAR workstations? Find out now. Thanks to Cakewalk Product Specialist Mike Trujillo for this video.

MIDI Devices and Controller Setup
Learn how to setup MIDI devices in SONAR (version 8.5 and earlier). This video covers basic configuration of keyboard controllers and control surfaces (including ACT, WAI, etc). Thanks to Cakewalk Product Specialist Mike Trujillo for this video.


SONAR: Go Deeper
Coming soon...

 
SONAR: Master Class
Drum Production Episode I
This Master Class explores writing, arranging and mixing drums in SONAR.  Spotlighted are production techniques and workflow using Session Drummer 3, Step Sequencer 2.0, and PX-64 Percussion Strip.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

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• Step Sequencer 2.0
• Session Drummer 3.0
• VX-64 Vocal Strip demo by Video Game Composer Chuck Carr

 
Matrix View - NEW!!!

• Non-Linear Sequencing: Matrix View
• Drag n' Drop Beats and Loops from AES 09 (SONAR 8.5)   
• Techbreakfast: Matrix View demo from AES 09'

 
SONAR, Intel Core i7 & SIGGRAPH 2009

• SONAR 8.5 is optimized for the new Intel Core i7 processor 

 
MIX TV Videos

• 140-Track Session with Singer Songwriter Cori Yarckin
• Session Drummer 3
• Compositional Tools

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• SONAR 8 Webinar
• Better Piano Sounds
• TS-64 Transient Shaper
• TL-64 Tube Leveler
• Exclusive Solo, Aim Assist, Dynamic Aim
• Using pitch wheel controllers  in piano roll view
• Better recording with stereo settings & channel processing
• Editing clips, loops & groups  

 
Beatscape Videos

• Create beats and grooves
• Part 1: Using Beatscape with the step-sequencer
• Part 2: Using Beatscape with the step-sequencer

 
Remix Magazine Masterclass

• Drum replacement, pitch correction & sidechaining (3 videos)

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• The 700 Club features SONAR user Don Chapman & American Idol contestant Chris Sligh
• Crossfader interview with Film & TV Composer Shawn Clement
• Mixing Tips from Terry Howard
• Integrating Studio Hardware into Your Mix Environment by Terry Howard
• Crossfader interview with Film & TV Composer Peter Johnson
• DJ Johnny Juice on Recording Public Enemy's James Brown Tribute
• Crossfader interview with Producer Rory Kaplan
• Rory Kaplan on Surround Mixing in SONAR
• Crossfader interview with Billboard Charting Pianist & Composer Kevin Kern
• Crossfader interview with Film Composer Vivek Maddala
• Jimmy Nichols Musical Director for Faith Hill
• Crossfader interview with Producer, Singer, & Musician Norman Mathew
• Crossfader interview with Solo Artist & Producer Sharkey
• Crossfader interview with Solo Artist, Drummer & Percussionist Paul Wertico
• Crossfader interview with Songwriter, Arranger, and Producer Benjamin Wright 

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Audio Effects

• Get A Pro Mastered Mix with Boost 11(SONAR 7)
• DJ Johnny Juice on VC-64(SONAR 6)
• Perfect Space In Depth (SONAR 5)
• Gearwire: VC64 Vintage Channel (SONAR 6) 
• Gearwire: Delay Compensation (SONAR 6) 
• Gearwire: Parallel Compression (SONAR 6)  
• Gearwire: Dropzone (SONAR 7)
• How to Simulate Acoustic Spaces with Perfect Space Convolution Reverb (SONAR 5)
• Mastering - LP64 EQ + Boost 11 from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)

Audio Loops

• Loop Construction (SONAR 4)
• Gearwire: Loop Explorer (SONAR 6) 
• Gearwire: Simple sampling with SFZ (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Step Sequencing a Drum Track (SONAR 7)

 
Audio Quality

• An explanation of 64-bit audio and its benefits (SONAR 5)
• Ron Kuper on the benefits of 64-bit Audio (SONAR 5)
• Terry Howard on SONAR's Audio Quality (SONAR 6)

AudioSnap

• Part 1 (SONAR 6)
• Part 2 (SONAR 6)
• Part 3 (SONAR 6)
• Part 4 (SONAR 6)
• Part 5 (SONAR 6)
• DJ Johnny Juice on AudioSnap (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: AudioSnap Overview (SONAR 6) 
• Gearwire: AudioSnap for Correct Out of Sync Bass Riffs (SONAR 6) 
• Gearwire: AudioSnap for Drum Timing (SONAR 6) 
• Gearwire: AudioSnap for Audio Quantize (SONAR 6)
• AudioSNap for Vocals from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• AudioSnap for Drum Tightening from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• AudioSnap Algorithms from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• AudioSnap Tempo Changes on Entire Song from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• AudioSnap Drum Replacement from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)

 
Dimension Pro LE

• Gearwire: Part 1: Dimension Pro LE (SONAR 7) 
• Gearwire: Part 2: Dimension Pro LE (SONAR 7)
• Gearwire Part 3: Dimension Pro LE (SONAR 7) 
• Gearwire: Dimension Pro LE (Multi-Samples)

 
Editing

• Freeze (SONAR 4)
• Freeze from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• Grouped Editing (SONAR 4)
• Track Layers and Comping (SONAR 4)
• Layered recording and editing with Track Layers (SONAR 5)
• Gearwire: Vocal  Editing (SONAR 6) 

MIDI Editing

• Speed MIDI Editing with the Inline Piano Roll (SONAR 5)
• More MIDI features and Instruments from SONAR (SONAR 5)
• Smart MIDI Tools (SONAR 7)
• Step Sequencer (SONAR 7)

Mixing, Mastering, & Delivery

• Use Automation for Complex Mixes and Special Effects (SONAR 5)
• Get Better Mixes with Bus Waveform Preview (SONAR 5)
• Get Better Mixes with Peak Markers (SONAR 5)
• New Mixing Console & Transport (SONAR 6)
• Mixing with the new SONAR 6 Console
• Mixing Tips from Terry Howard (SONAR 6)
• Integrating Studio Hardware into Your Mix Environment by Terry Howard (SONAR 6)
• External Inserts from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• Mastering - Waveform Preview from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• Mastering LP64 EQ + Boost 11 from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• Export Options from AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• Part 1: Mixing & Mastering from AES 08 Demo (SONAR 8)
  
• Part 2: Mixing & Mastering Beats from AES 08 Demo (SONAR 8)

 
Rapture LE

• Gearwire: Rapture LE Overview (SONAR 7)  
• Rapture LE (Featuring Orgy's Blue Monday)    

 
Set Up

• How to set-up Audio & MIDI Recording on a PC (SONAR 6)  

 
Surround Mixing

• Rory Kaplan on Surround Mixing in SONAR (SONAR 5)
• Surround Panner (SONAR 4)

 
Synth Rack

• Gearwire: Synth Rack (SONAR 6)

Tradeshow Demos

• SONAR 7 Demo Excerpts from AES 2007
• Sonicstate video from AES 2007
• Mix Video of SONAR 6.2 at NAMM 07
• Sonic State Video of SONAR 6 at AES 06 
• Sonic State Video of SONAR 6.2 at NAMM 07
• Crossfader.com video of Music Creation in SONAR 6.2
• SONAR 6.2 Demo from Remix Hotel NYC 2007 Part 1
• SONAR 6.2 Demo from Remix Hotel NYC 2007 Part 2
• SONAR 6.2 Demo from Remix Hotel NYC 2007 Part 3
• Gearwire: Step Sequencer at AES 07 Demo (SONAR 7)
• Audio for Video from AES 08 Demo (SONAR 8)

User Interface, Workflow, & Customization Enhancements

• Color Customization (SONAR 6)
• Custom Menus & Controls (SONAR 6)
• New Mixing Console & Transport (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Menu Customizations (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Friendly Name Drivers (SONAR 6)
• Plug-in Management (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Track Templates (SONAR 6)
• Track Folders (SONAR 4)
• Track Folders, Navigator View, Track Icons (SONAR 5)
• Track Folders from AES 2007 demo (SONAR 7)
• Track Templates (SONAR 5)
• Gearwire: Quick Groups (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Tempo Map Creation (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Metronome (SONAR 6)
• Speed workflow with Tabbed Edit Views (SONAR 5)
• Speed Workflow with X-Ray Windows (SONAR 6)
• X-Ray Windows from AES 2007 demo (SONAR 7)

Virtual Instruments

• Create High Quality Instrument Tracks with Dimension LE (SONAR 7)
• Rapture LE from AES 2007 demo (SONAR 7)
• Get Genuine Roland Sounds with GrooveSynth (SONAR 6)  
• RXP + Pentagon (SONAR 5)  
• Gearwire: Pentagon, Soundfont, RXP (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Creating Beats with Session Drummer 2 (SONAR 6)
• Gearwire: Session Drummer 2 
• All About the TTS-1 (SONAR 4)

  
V-Vocal

• V-Vocal In-Depth(SONAR 5)
• Basic V-Vocal Editing (SONAR 5)
• Advanced V-Vocal Editing Techniques (SONAR 5) 
• Gearwire: V-Vocal Tuning (SONAR 6)

 
x64

• Revolutionizing Audio Production on x64 (SONAR 5)

Many of these videos are also available for download from our FTP

Thanks a ton.
-D

that's a great help--thanks for taking the time.

There are dozens of videos ( literally hundreds of MB's worth of SONAR tutorials), for your viewing and downloading pleasure @ gearwire:

http://www.gearwire.com/cakewalk.html

ORIGINAL: Billy Buck

There are dozens of videos ( literally hundreds of MB's worth of SONAR tutorials), for your viewing and downloading pleasure @ gearwire:

http://www.gearwire.com/cakewalk.html

Thanks for the link!

Thanks, I just got 6.0 and these will help a lot

Would any of you recommend m-audio firewire 410 to use with sonar 6?

I use firewire410. No problems. It might depend on your computer speed but I'm not sure. I'm new to the whole "latency" thing. Didn't have no goldurn latency in the old days. We just pulled out the 30ips 2" and went to work.

KMB

Great idea and I appreciate the effort, however some of the vids, especially the utube vids are of such poor quality that I don't really find them useful.

Are they available on a web server for download somewhere?

Thanks.

Those gearwire vids could sure use some editing!

There are so many pauses and "um, let me just, ah, um...(trailing off). And they should make sure that when using tools like audio-snap the result would sound as good as possible. For example the tamburine he's trying to quantize in one of the examples is definitely not tight with the music at the point where he announces that he's content. It certainly wouldn't convince me to crossgrade to Sonar if I wasn't already a user.

ORIGINAL: Abe

To save youtube files use http://keepvid.com , use the mentioned free FLV player to watch the movies.

Here's another option which is slower but you end up with easier to use avi or mov files:
http://vixy.net

Great stuff ... this is priceless , even if some of it's hard to follow , at least it lets me know what's possible with my DAW.


the one about audio snap is great until he starts pooling transients .. and tweaking midi files.
he runs through it so fast , and there is no closeup of what he's actually pushing.

The V-vocal is a great sale , but I haven't been able to get it working in practice .. the wave forms only showed up once
and I haven't seen them since. I can everything in melodyne , but it's a hassle to import and export Sonar's audio tracks
into the program .. and using it as a plugin seems even more of a hassle.

And what's up with the SONAR6 PE manual only being half as thick as SONAR3 pe's manual? I hope Craig Anderton
has a SONAR6 book published that's as good as his SONAR3 'MIXING AND MASTERING' book.

I used it more than the user's guide that came with the DAW.

Integrating Studio Hardware into Your Mix Environment by Terry Howard - OMG he's got a SSL AWS-900+ there : that's a 90,000 euros beasty, no wonder he's grinning.

Great Stuff !

All I need now is a decent song to play with !!!


rodar6

More on the mastering side at the mo please !

Cakewalk,

What about some different types of videos that will show folks how to use you product in the performing of their daily functions. I believe that if you show these types of videos, people will know that performing every day recording task will make their recording experience easy with Sonar.

I have posted here with the question on how to set up Sonar so that I can have the vocalist listen to themselves with reverb added, but not recorded. I got so many different answers that didn’t' work. So, I would like Cakewalk to present a video on the setup of vocal monitoring, if possible. It should focus on how to assign tracks to busses for monitoring. How to place sends to multiple I/O for listening or using a headphone amp in the process, and also how t add an external and headphone amp. These are the types of videos that are needed so we know how to use your product effectively in our studios. There have been hundreds of post on this with varied answers, and folks still don’t have a complete answer.

Thanks.

James.