Cakewalk Sonar 8 Tutorial 5: Mastering (part 1 of 3)

SONAR 8 - HOW TO CREATE SONGS FROM START TO FINISH

This tutorial is for all comers, new and experienced. I'm an advocate for Sonar, because it is extremely user friendly and you can get everything you need done in one program. Cakewalk support is great as well. Also the Sonar forum is pretty good if you ever get caught in a bind.

The main purpose is to take you through the steps of completing an entire song. If you're in the market for a new DAW and you're considering Sonar, then take a look at this series and it will help you get started.

I am by no means a professional or a teacher, but I figured that I do have something to add since I've been on Sonar for about 3 years. I'm also a pretty good producer, songwriter, and singer. I hope you enjoy.

Maskerade


PS. You can check out my own music at www.mlifesoul.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Maskerade
• Sonar 8
• tutorial
• song creation
• recording
• mixing
• mastering
• Part 5-1

[maskerade45]

I don't use the freeze. But probably because I have 4 gig of Ram so I've got some room to work with.

You might try adding some. Or you could check the cakewalk message boards for similar issues..

[eatenbyclowns]

I'm curious why you bounce everything to two tracks? I've always just selected all and exported when I mix. Do you get a better sound?

[MrJackanthony]

Really sir, you couldn't get these videos out in better quality :) ? It still helps immensely so thank you.

[SONICSOUL174]

Your computer is to slow.

[Jwhizzle87]

Your song sounds nice by the way

[VJRomz]

my voice is real deep and i just want to no how i can get that flat sound from it

[taddison2]

can you use the same effects as if you were rapping?

[claragary]

Just went to you site and loved it.

Truly profesional. Your music is refreshing and cool and your songs have different flavores.

Nice!!! Keep up the music.

[cheapspace]

Thanks for the time you spent to make this video. I just got sonar 8.5 and loving it! I had to switch from fl studio because it was robbing me of dynamics. When your mixing do you use the freeze option? When ever i use it my routing (sideching,reverb and delay sends) wont work.