Sonar 8 Makes PAR Excellence Awards!

I just thought some of you may be interested to hear this...

PAR Presents 2008 PAR Excellence Awards at AES

SAN FRANCISCO - Pro Audio Review presented its 12th Annual PAR Excellence Award to 40 professional audio companies who introduced signficant new products at the Oct. 2-5 AES Convention in San Francisco.

The winning products were chosen by a panel of audio engineers, professional end-users and reviewers who annually select the awards for Pro Audio Review. Products are chosen for the PAR Excellence Award based on their potential to enhance the quality of an audio professional's work. Criteria include innovation in design, performance/value ratio, enhanced features, and performance improvements over previous versions. Products must have been introduced after the previous year's AES Show, and must be shipping by June 30 of the following year.

For more information on the PAR Excellence Award, contact John Gatski, publisher/executive editor of Pro Audio Review.

2008 PAR Excellence Award Winners

* ADAM A5 Multimedia Monitor
* Audio-Technica BP-4025 Stereo Microphone
* ADK Three-Sigma Audio Series Microphone Kit
* AEA A440 Active Ribbon Series Microphone
* Arsenal Audio R24 (rack-mount) & V14 (for VPR 500) Four-Band EQ
* Auralex Sonic Print Acoustic Material
* Benchmark MPA1 Microphone Preamplifier
* Brainworx SPL Plug-In Series
* Cakewalk SONAR 8 Workstation Software
* Cascade C77 Ribbon Microphone
* Daking Mic Pre One Preamplifier
* Digidesign Pro Tools 8
* DPA 4099 Performance Series Instrument Microphone
* Endless Analog Clasp Processor
* Fairlight Pyxis Multitrack Recorder/HD VTR
* FOCAL CMS-50 Powered Monitor
* Heil Sound Drum Kit Microphone/Mounting System
* iZ ADA 24-bit/192 kHz Multichannel Converter
* JBL EON500 Portable PA
* Josephson C720 Condenser Microphone
* Lavry MP10 Stereo Mic Preamplifier
* Marshall Genesis Tube Condenser Microphone
* Manley Mastering Backbone
* Massey Plug-Ins Drum-To-MIDI Convertor for Pro Tools|HD
* M-Audio ProFire 2626 FireWire Interface
* Microtech-Gefell UM 930 Dual-Element Microphone
* Mojave Audio M201 FET Microphone
* Neumann TLM 67 Condenser Microphone
* Oram S200 Live Sound Rack Mixer
* PreSonus StudioLive Digital Console
* Primacoustic Cumulus Corner Bass Trap
* Renkus-Heinz IC Live Line Array
* sE Microphones Rupert Neve Active Ribbon Series
* Solid State Logic Matrix Workstation
* Sonnox SuprEsser DeEssing Plug-In
* Soundcraft Si3 Digital Live Sound Console
* Steinberg CC-221 DAW Controller
* Summit Audio ECS-410 Everest Processor
* Teaboy Audio Recall Sheets Software
* WAVES Dorrough Meter Plug-Ins

Don't want to sound a damp squid but how could they have thoroughly reviewed Sonar 8 when it was only released on the 2nd of October? Secondly by reading the amount of items that are down for or requested for update treatment I suspect that their PAR excellence awards are not up to par.

ORIGINAL: Gerry

Don't want to sound a damp squid but how could they have thoroughly reviewed Sonar 8 when it was only released on the 2nd of October?

Teaboy Audio Recall Sheets Software

Perhaps like many magazines and such who write reviews they would be given copies a few weeks before the public release date?
Just a thought.
Steve

Pro Tools 8 got the same award, so it can't be that significant. It looks more like acknowledgement of a new product than anything else IMHO.

Just like all such lists, I'm surprised by what's on it and what's not.

Sonar 8? Absolutely, but why not the V-Studio 700?
And then the Steinberg CC121 but not the V-Studio 700?
And they left off my favorite: the SoundDevices 788T portable 8 track recorder. That thing was amazing with all the features they packed into it.

ORIGINAL: Fog

ORIGINAL: tarsier


And then the Steinberg CC121 but not the V-Studio 700?

well the berg thing is out now, 700 isn't out till Jan next year.. also the price gap and what they both do is pretty massive.

Well, Sonar 8 is out now, but Prot Tools 8 isn't and it still got an award. So that logic doesn't stand up.