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This year’s AES show was one of the most successful for Cakewalk. The show floor was abuzz with the news of SONAR 5, Dimension Pro and Project5 version 2 and demos were packed. Below are some of the highlights from the show.
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SONAR 5 Launch Party
To celebrate the release of SONAR 5, Intel sponsored a party at AES held in the Cakewalk booth at the end of day one. Cakewalk customers, members of the press, producers, engineers, and friends in the industry all attended. It was so well attended that we needed to spill out into the aisles of the show floor.
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Ron Kuper Delivers Seminar on Benefits of 64-bit Computing for Digital Audio Applications
Cakewalk CTO Ron Kuper's, Intel sponsored seminar on the benefits of 64-bit computing was delivered to a standing room only audience. In his talk, Ron discussed the benefits of the x64 platform for audio applications, the superior nature of mixing with SONAR’s 64-bit double precision audio engine (on 32-bt or 64-bit machines), and the process of porting applications to the x64 platform.
Ron’s seminar in total was over 45 minutes in length. We will be posting the seminar, broken out into different sections. For our first installment, we have excerpted the section specifically on the benefits of SONAR’s double precision mix engine:
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Click here to download the White Paper that accompanied the seminar.
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Rory Kaplan Speaks About SONAR 5 and Surround Mixing
Rory Kaplan has had a long career as a technology leader as a musician, tech, producer, and A&R representative. Through his career he has worked with such greats as Michael Jackson, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Queen and many others. In addition, Rory was instrumental in the launch and adoption of the DTS format and had produced or executive produced over 180 surround recordings.
Rory recently adopted SONAR into his studio production arsenal, and Cakewalk was pleased to host to sessions featuring Rory. Rory discussed the history of Surround, talked about how much he likes SONAR 5 with specific examples, and discussed an upcoming project with Queen.
We’ve posted a short video except of Rory’s talk below.
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Terry Howard Wins 2005 Tec Award
Cakewalk’s Ron Kuper and Carl Jacobson attended the awards ceremony show, and sat with Terry Howard, Les Paul, and Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. As it turns out, Henry loves SONAR and uses it regularly to produce his recordings. He’s been using Cakewalk products since 1989 and is a regular visitor to the forums.
The highlight of the evening was when SONAR user Terry Howard (pictured with Les Paul) won a Tec Award for Creative Achievement in the category of Record Production/Album for his work on Ray Charles Genius Loves Company.
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Congratulations Peter Johnson, Winner of Boxx Giveaway
Cakewalk, in conjunction with Boxx gave away a high end workstation PC at the end of the show. The winner was Peter Johnson, of Brooklyn, New York. Peter reported to us that he is the music supervisor and composer for CSI New York. He also is using SONAR to score an upcoming film on the life of Ike Turner entitled the King of Rhythm.
Peter, was very excited at the news “I’ve been a SONAR user for years and this is unbelievable, with this new dual-core Boxx system and SONAR 5, I can finally upgrade to 64-bit. My productions are going to be better than ever!”
Click here for more information on Boxx workstations.
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Cakewalk is Everywhere at AES
In addition to the Cakewalk booth, we also were giving demonstrations in the Technology Rocks Pavilion sponsored by Intel & Gibson, where Bill Jackson assisted Gibson clinician Bart Walsh in showing the Gibson Digital Les Paul in surround using SONAR 5. AES attendees saw Cakewalk products in more booths than ever before, as our partners in the industry showed the benefits of their latest products with support for SONAR or Project5. We’ve spotlighted a handful of those companies below, please click the links to learn more about their latest offerings. |
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BridgeCo
Umberto Zanghieri used SONAR 5 to show how their FireWire technology powers a vast majority of audio interfaces.
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Edirol
Edirol’s Christian Delfino showing Edirol audio interfaces using SONAR 5 and their new 64-bit drivers for Windows XP x64 Edition.
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E-MU
E-MU were also showing 64-bit drivers for their audio interfaces using SONAR 5. In related news all EMU Digital Audio Systems now ship with SONAR LE.
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Frontier Design
Frontier Design Group were demonstrating the Tranzport wireless control surface with SONAR 5.
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FXpansion
FXpansion’s Rhiannon Bankston-Thomas demonstrates Guru with SONAR 5.
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Technology Rocks Pavilion
Intel, Gibson, HP, and Cakewalk teamed together to show the new Digital Les Paul in surround with SONAR 5. Bart Walsh wowed the crowds with guitar pyrotechnics.
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Matrox
Matrox shows the self-evident benefits of their 3-head Parhelia card with Project5 Version 2.
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M-Audio
M-Audio are now shipping their Projectmix i/o with control surface support for SONAR.
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MOTU
A visitor to the MOTU booth experiences their new Symphonic Instrument on a PC with DXi support for SONAR 5.
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Music Books Plus/Focal Press
Maureen Jack and Katie Varslack with the Focal Easy Guide to Cakewalk SONAR
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Open Labs
Open Labs was demonstrating their Neko (Gen 2) Production Station with support for SONAR 5.
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Presonus
Presonus is now shipping audio interfaces with SONAR LE.
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PSP Audioware
Antoni Ozynski demonstrates their new Stereopack 1.8 and 608 MultiDelay with SONAR 5.
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Universal Audio
Tom Freeman was showing new plug-ins for the UAD-1 including the Roland Dimension-D and Precision Multiband.
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