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Cakewalk, a company that develops powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, has announces its release of SONAR V-Studio 700, a solution for music production.

 

Two music technology leaders have combined the best of their hardware and software engineering to address the growing needs of modern music professionals to launch SONAR V-Studio 700, which represents the first and flagship product in the next-generation V-Studio line of Cakewalk-branded hardware and software solutions.

 

The new generation of V-Studio builds on combining Roland's renowned hardware expertise with the power and flexibility of Cakewalk's SONAR Producer DAW. Roland had pioneered the concept of combining hard-disk recording with an ergonomic control surface.

 

Addressing the gap between under-powered "budget" solutions and over-priced competitive solutions, SONAR V-Studio 700 offers a compelling, feature-rich music production system that is accessible to a broad range of users.

 

The solution also incorporates video and image hardware control functionality for addressing the needs of post production professionals.

 

SONAR V-Studio 700 will be available February 2009 at select music and sound retailers and for a price of about $4,000. Outside the U.S., the solution is available through Roland and Edirol distribution partners and select retailers worldwide. To learn more about SONAR V-Studio 700, please visit www.sonarvstudio.com.

 

Hidekazu Tanaka, president of Roland Corporation, said that the original Roland V-Studio and VS products were groundbreaking in that they provided powerful digital recording capabilities to musicians with an easy to use hardware interface.

 

Tanaka noted that as musicians still want something easy to use that offers superior sound, Roland wanted to create a recording solution that kept those goals in mind while innovating in new and exciting ways in working with Cakewalk on the next generation V-Studio.

 

Greg Hendershott, founder and CEO of Cakewalk, commented that when Roland and Cakewalk started the SONAR V-Studio 700 project, it was with the vision that with their combined strengths both of the companies could introduce the next breakthrough product to the world.

 

Hendershott expressed hope that years from now, people will look back on SONAR V-Studio 700 as one of the milestones in the music technology industry.