All in all, it ends up using about 20 GB of hard drive space. Also, Addictive Drums is a separate download and registration. The install did take a while, which isn’t too surprising as there is just so much included. XP will not be supported by Microsoft after April 2014, so if you’re still on that operating system, you may want to get an upgrade soon. XP and Vista are not officially on the support list any longer.

Windows 7 and 8 (32 and 64-bit) are supported, and Windows 8 has Multitouch support. InstallationĬakewalk states that the PC you’re installing it on should have at least an Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.67 GHz, or an AMD Phenom Quad Core 9750 2.4 GHz or higher. What I will try to do is to touch on its more significant features and plugins, hopefully giving you an overall perspective on this huge DAW. There’s no way I can cover everything this DAW can do, as it has so many plugins and such an extensive number of features. Some of the features you’ll read about in this review were already in X2, but in some cases have been improved. Once I started to really check it out, it wasn’t as challenging as I imagined it would be to migrate to X3 Producer.Īt its core, SONAR X3 Producer has unlimited tracks, sends, and busses, a 64-bit double-precision audio engine, and a maximum sample rate of 384kHz. At first, it seemed like a giant leap from that older version. This however, is my first experience with the “X” series I was using SONAR Producer 8.5 previously. I started using SONAR with version 4 and have occasionally upgraded along the way. Two major plugins they’ve added are Addictive Drums and Melodyne Essential. Some of the new features included are ARA integration, comping, VST3 support, and editable track colors. It continues on from X2, adding new features and plugins. SONAR X3 Producer is Cakewalk’s flagship DAW (digital audio workstation). Our reviewer does his best to cover the vast number of capabilities in this very capable PC-based recording studio. Cakewalk continues its evolution of the SONAR DAW with X3.

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