Striking the perfect balance between passion and precision, Sonar 5 shatters the limitations found in ordinary digital audio workstations. Offering a complete spectrum of creative technologies, Sonar 5 inspires artistic expression. These technologies are fully integrated within a cutting edge engineering and mixing environment to transform musical dreams into professional finished productions. Sonitus Surround Compressor Multi-format surround mixing SurroundBridge Per-channel EQ Assignable FX controls POW-r dithering MPEX 3 time scaling Video thumbnail track PSYN II subtractive synth, Pentagon I vintage analog synth, Roland GrooveSynth, SFZ SoundFont sampler, RXP REX Player groove box Additional instruments include TTS-1, Cyclone, and DreamStation Perfect Space Convolution Reverb Additional effects include Lexicon Pantheon Reverb, Sonitus - fx Suite (10 effects), many more Updated MIDI FX plug-ins Integrated inline audio and MIDI editing, arranging, and mixing all in one view Envelope automation drawing enhanced with tempo-sync patterns, freehand, more Object-oriented clip-based effects and editing including per-clip effects bin, clip-based effect automation, and more BitBridge enables 32-bit VST effects and instruments in Sonar"s 64-bit environment Remove DC offset during recording Dynamic Console View with per-channel EQ and assignable FX controls Freeze for tracks, effects, and synths unloads plug-ins, frees RAM, frozen audio is editable, Quick Unfreeze allows for toggling, more SurroundBridge use your favorite stereo effect plug-ins in surround Advanced step recording Edit and print traditional staff notation Video output to 1394 FireWire devices for high quality viewing with lower CPU and disk usage Sync to and send SMPTE/MTC for scoring external video System Requirements - Windows XP, Intel Pentium 4, 1.3 GHz, 128 MB of RAM, 100 MB of Hard Disk Space, 1024 x