Cakewalk Sonar: From Beginner to Expert (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: Yan Dongcheng
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book is the second volume in Tsinghua University Press's "Computer Music Masters" series. It primarily includes:
A brief history of Cakewalk and an overview of Cakewalk SONAR functions;
A quick start guide to Cakewalk SONAR;
Introductions to the operations of the track window, staff window, piano roll window, event list window, and other commonly used editing windows;
Comprehensive explanations of Cakewalk SONAR 3.0 menu commands;
Complete operational exercises and descriptions of Cakewalk SONAR 3.0 new features;
Updates on Cakewalk SONAR 4 new developments.
The appendix of this book also provides a wealth of technical materials related to Cakewalk SONAR. The content is fresh, detailed, and accurately explained, with the software introduced being the latest version at the time of publication. During the writing process, the author received guidance from well-known international software companies such as Cakewalk, MusicLab, and NTONYX, as well as from Japanese Roland Company and Beijing Zhongyin Company, ensuring a certain international standard.
This book is suitable for all music enthusiasts and professional musicians interested in computer music production. It can serve as an advanced reading material for music producers to understand and familiarize themselves with Cakewalk SONAR software operations and improve computer music and audio processing techniques. It can also be used as supplementary teaching material for elective courses on computer music in music schools. Additionally, it holds some reference value for software developers who wish to master audio editing and multimedia signal processing.