Designed for professional users, yet easy enough for the novice, mixing and mastering audio in surround sound can now be achieved with SONAR 4 Producer Edition. Whether you are composing music or scoring video, working in a surround environment expands your mixing possibilities far beyond the capabilities of stereo. Surround is the accepted standard for audio-video production and is the future of music production. Today, industry-leading artists are releasing DVD Video and Audio versions of their albums, with many more headed in this direction as surround and DVD Audio technology continues its rapid acceptance in home listening environments.