Also good for small scree laptops.

Professional, complete and very efficient DAW. It is unbelievable how BandLab does not charge a penny for it!

Includes inbuilt bridge allowing a 64-bit software to use a 32-bit plugin and vice versa without having to painstakingly use an external bridge to bridge the plugins. This will save one from bridging every new plugin that isn't compatible.

A Pro Channel ensures that you have all the necessary plugins in a really good mixing rack with console emulation for all busses and channels. This feels and sounds like a real mixing console.

When you're done with a project, upload it straight to SoundCloud or YouTube from the Sonar DAW.

You can play video alongside your audio tracks during playback to make it easier for post-production or audio-to-video sync.

You can download and install virtual instruments and non-native plugin effects.

New projects can have the entire session defined from a template. Tracks, IO, folders routing, Etc

In addition to an effects rack and ProChannel effects that you can insert into each track, SONAR also allows you to insert effects plugins on individual audio or MIDI clips.

Using the non-destructive editing, you can easily cut one of those clips into smaller pieces if you'd like to apply an effect non-destructively to an individual note or musical phrase.

In SONAR Platinum you can create an unlimited number of audio tracks, patch points, aux tracks and busses. Each track can send its output or an unlimited number of aux sends to any patch point or bus. A patch point can route to any number of aux tracks. Each aux track or bus can send its output or an unlimited number of sends to any other patch point or bus. (* A patch point is a destination where audio can be sent from any output or aux send, while an aux track is a track that receives its input from a patch point. This allows the track to be used similarly to a bus, with the additional flexibility of allowing multiple aux tracks to get their input from the same source point, and the organizational convenience of having the track alongside other tracks, instead of in the separate bus area.)

The Sonar DAW has some of the best pitch correction available, and it comes with the DAW.

If your computer has a touch screen, use gestures to optimize your workflow.

Lots of new features to separate them from the pack and put them in the lead again like when they were the very first DAW to go 64 bits. New model for purchasing the DAW means a purchaser can pay a monthly fee to use the DAW instead of having to buy it all upfront, so now you can try it for a month or 4 and if it does not work for you, dump it without having spent the full price to buy the whole thing.

Group tracks into folders to expand/collapse Solo Mute or Archive.

It comes with a lot of Hardware Instrument definition templates and you can easily build your own.