With Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop with Craig Anderton -- a new instructional DVD available from Cakewalk -- you can learn the ins and outs, ups and downs of Cakewalk's Sonar X1 DAW. Not just a standard tutorial on how to get started within Sonar X1, this DVD offers a compilation of advanced workshop videos that provide an in-depth exploration of professional techniques.

As you know from its title, Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop with Craig Anderton, is led by Craig Anderton, a longtime musician, composer, recording artist, studio owner, magazine editor, and author. If you are a regular visitor to gear-related Web sites like Gearwire.com and are well-versed in recording and electronic music know-how, you have heard of him. In the DVD, Cakewalk’s first official video tutorial, Anderton delivers real-world insights and tips that will help any Sonar X1 user make music creatively and efficiently.

The 1 hour and 40 minute-long instructional DVD covers a range of subjects, including vintage effects emulation, repairing damaged tracks, mastering within Sonar, “virtual multi-miking” techniques for acoustic instruments, perfect looping with any pad, convolution-based sound design, constructing a looper in Sonar with unique features, humanizing step sequencer patterns, album assembly, and more. Thirty-one videos are offered in total.

Some of the DVD's topics include the following:

• Creating Screensets
• Editing with Smart Tools
• Object-oriented editing
• Entering the Matrix View
• Arpeggiator meets percussion
• Humanizing the Step Sequencer
• Slicing loops for hi-fi stretching
• Creating a “looper”
• Processing Groove Clips
• Optimizing Groove Clips
• Perfect pad looping
• Timbre-shifting with loops
• Using FX Chains
• Generating frequency-tracking automation envelopes
• "Virtual miking" for acoustic instruments
• Using the PX-64 on bass tracks
• Integrating external hardware effects
• Using Perfect Space reverb for sound design
• Sidechaining for rhythmic effects
• Using ProChannel
• Parallel compression
• Adding Tube Saturation
• Emulating vintage phase shifters
• Optimizing amp simulators
• Creating vintage “wah” pedal effects
• Mastering inside Sonar
• Track down EQ problems with the Analyst
• Repairing clicks
• Maximizing loudness
• Assembling an album

Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop with Craig Anderton presents information in a practical, easy-to-understand style that demystifies otherwise complex topics, according to Cakewalk. These videos are also said to represent the state-of-the-art in video instruction with tight editing, superb sound quality, and excellent use of the video medium.

Cakewalk's Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop with Craig Anderton may be purchased at the Cakewalk Store for the introductory price of $29.99. To learn more about the instructional DVD, visit cakewalk.com.