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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 01:28:02
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I am pretty sure Studio One is good, but it is going to be rough times changing over. I just bought it and tried it out for a couple hours. I really miss the gain control. All pro mixing boards have a gain/trim control, but not Studio One. I really hope I can get comfortable with this. I miss having the master output on a track instead of the console. I never used the console mode in Sonar, a waste of space. And I miss having the ability to name myself on the forum instead of getting an assigned name. Its going to be a long difficult conversion for me. I hope they make some videos for us Sonar folks Here is a nice thing to know about http://forum.cakewalk.com/To-my-fellow-X1-and-Studio-One-users-m2527296.aspx#3699149 Good luck!
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 01:40:09
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I have one positive thing to say about Studio One that i have not been liking about Sonar. And that the pan. That you in S1 can type in you ban insted of the way in Sonar where you have to dial it in by the mouse. That is time consuming if you have 21 track of choir you want to pan in a specific way. What S1 needs fast is groups in the faders, pans, mute, solo and so on. The way that is in sonar is priceless. I use them all the time. then you can make one automation for all the tracks in the group without having to make the automation for all the tracks.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 01:50:01
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Jarsve
Sylvan I ran some more tests last night. I had some trouble with my screen captures though so I will have to do it again so I can show what I did and show the results. But in the meantime this is what I can tell you as absolute fact...
Great that others find what i heard. I belive that I can and will make good music in my new Studio One, but there was a difference when i put in the the same project into S1 and had all the faders the same. The same levels on the faders didn't work. You have to re mix everything. I might have been a little angry in my opening post. But I was angry. I was really angry that i couldn't make it sound the same. I have tried to mix this fast in S1 to compaire. The faders are different. And I dont have Breverb, REmatrix Solo and BT Compressor CP2S-3. For the Bass with the BT Compressor, I imported the freezed track. Studio One: https://soundcloud.com/oyvind-jarsve/together-as-one-studio-one Sonar: https://soundcloud.com/oyvind-jarsve/together-as-one-sonar I guess this mixes is in no way scientific. But you can hear what I struggle with.
SO after listening, I can hear a difference but I really do think it is in the plugins. What I am hearing is this: Sonar=slightly warmer and "smeared" in a pleasing way like true tape saturation. S1= a bit more detailed and a little better stereo image. No appreciable difference in bottom end amount, more in the shape at least to my ears and in my room. (fairly well tuned and treated and monitoring through Mackie HR824s. Both good, both usable but yes, different. For reference here is a sonar mix I did that I think accentuates the positive aspects of Sonar. If I can, I will remix this in S1 to compare. https://soundcloud.com/simplem-1/windy
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 01:55:49
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SimpleM
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Sylvan I ran some more tests last night. I had some trouble with my screen captures though so I will have to do it again so I can show what I did and show the results. But in the meantime this is what I can tell you as absolute fact...
Great that others find what i heard. I belive that I can and will make good music in my new Studio One, but there was a difference when i put in the the same project into S1 and had all the faders the same. The same levels on the faders didn't work. You have to re mix everything. I might have been a little angry in my opening post. But I was angry. I was really angry that i couldn't make it sound the same. I have tried to mix this fast in S1 to compaire. The faders are different. And I dont have Breverb, REmatrix Solo and BT Compressor CP2S-3. For the Bass with the BT Compressor, I imported the freezed track. Studio One: https://soundcloud.com/oyvind-jarsve/together-as-one-studio-one Sonar: https://soundcloud.com/oyvind-jarsve/together-as-one-sonar I guess this mixes is in no way scientific. But you can hear what I struggle with.
SO after listening, I can hear a difference but I really do think it is in the plugins.
What I am hearing is this: Sonar=slightly warmer and "smeared" in a pleasing way like true tape saturation.
S1= a bit more detailed and a little better stereo image.
No appreciable difference in bottom end amount, more in the shape at least to my ears and in my room. (fairly well tuned and treated and monitoring through Mackie HR824s.
Both good, both usable but yes, different.
For reference here is a sonar mix I did that I think accentuates the positive aspects of Sonar. If I can, I will remix this in S1 to compare.
https://soundcloud.com/simplem-1/windy
That would be great
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 01:57:26
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☄ Helpfulby doncolga 2017/11/30 03:21:23
You can already do quick groups and make changes to many tracks/channels at once. I think it is time to start learning the program properly. All that is very basic stuff.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 01:58:31
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Jarves, I grouped tracks in S1... volume Mute and Solo all worked together on the group. So, I think it does this already? SimpleM: I have noticed that the stereo field seems more focused in S1 vs Sonar as well. The thing that I feel is missing is basic MIDI data editing support. I didn't use the EVENT LIST often but when I had to dig in to adjust the MIDI data (cc codes mostly), it was there. S1 has NADA for this as far as I can tell.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:00:21
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:07:02
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Jeff Evans You can already do quick groups and make changes to many tracks/channels at once. I think it is time to start learning the program properly. All that is very basic stuff.
Indeed, very true, a lot of people who have only used the product for 5 minutes are making a lot of claims that are simply rubbish, it's just ignorance. Just because you don't know how to do something in Studio One doesn't automatically mean Studio One can't do it, more often than not it will be due to your lack of knowledge. [edit] there will be things SONAR can do that Studio One can't, but there is also things Studio One can do that SONAR can't, that's life. SONAR is dead, what it can do now is all it will be ever able to do, Studio One is very much alive, and the sky is the limit.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:07:54
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SimpleM https://soundcloud.com/simplem-1/windy
Great song and mix!
Thanks for the kind words Just in case you were unaware, (bet you are younger than me...) the song is a cover from the late 60's by "The Association". It was one of their two big hits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYT9Vyu62AThis is just a fun mix I did with me singing all the backgrounds and vocals instead of using instruments (except for drums and bass). The drums are EZdrummer Vintage Rock and the bass is Sonar SI Bass. After I thought about it, this was not done with Sonar effects or mix engine, this was all mixed through a Behringer X32. Still will be interesting to see how an S1 Mix compares.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:12:28
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☄ Helpfulby telecharge 2017/11/30 02:49:23
I highly recommend all the Groove 3 videos starting with version 1.5 even and going into 2 and then 3. There are Explained videos and Advanced videos for all versions. Stuff that is explained in V1.5 say does not get explained again. Only new stuff is added. One good option is to get one of those passes say for a month or two and do some intense learning. They are all beautifully explained. Good idea also is to run the video on a separate machine (with audio mixed in with your normal DAW audio) and have Studio One running in front of you on your main machine. There are also tons of free Presonus videos too. The Groove 3 stuff is logically explained in a great learning order though. Then you get cracking doing projects and use the information you have learned.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:32:36
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Studio One can do a lot of thing that Sonar can do, but it's often more work in S1 than Sonar. Quick grouping is one example. You just click drag in Sonar. I don't know of any other DAW that does it as easy. There are many other things that Sonar does better that S1 simply cannot do. Like Track Templates (no song templates aren't track templates), Dim Solo as mentioned, right clicking on the record icon on the transport to change record modes, screen sets, I could go on all day. The appeal of Studio One is it's simple design. I get the appeal of it, because if you've worked with any other DAW, you just sort of pick it up intuitively. My biggest complaint of Studio One is the fact that it friggin drops out on me all the time when tracking. I don't have this problem in Sonar, I don't have this problem in Cubase. Not saying this is everyone's experience, but this has been mine.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:41:25
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Jarsve I really dont care about CPU use and RAM use. I have a Core i 7 with 6 cores and 12 threads and 32 GB of RAM. I rather want a DAW that uses all of that to sound great than less and inaccurate/noiseless/less musical sound. For what I want real fast in S1 1. Regions as it is in Sonar. have them on the bar for all to see. 2. Keyboard shortcuts to jump back and forth to regions. 3. Keyboard shortcuts to Jump to next/later bar. 4. Keyboard shortcuts to jump to beginning and the end of the projects. 5. Busses in its own place so that they can always be shown. 6. Automated faders on Busses 7. ProChannel, with always available EG, Compressor and so on. Why do we have to look up this tools. 8. Picture Icons on the tracks. 9. Improve the automation of faders so that you, not only can type in level, but also the time code. And that it works more smother. Now it sound like an on of switch. More to come.
For #5, I believe you can setup shortcuts to do that. Via the little track selector thingy on the left. And, then you can scroll thru say, tracks 1-9, just busses, all tracks etc.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
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Again, for those claiming that one DAW has a superior basic sound than another, answer me this. Why have DAW manufacturers (apart from Harrison) never, ever approached their marketing efforts from that angle? Can you think of one single DAW manufacturer (apart from Harrison) which has boasted about such things as "warmth," or "superior stereo imaging" from their sound? I can't. In fact if anything, the only thing you can imagine them boasting about is how transparent their sound is, and you don't even hear them say that.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 02:56:29
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☄ Helpfulby doncolga 2017/11/30 03:59:50
I've posted this before, but here it is again: Audio Myths & DAW Wars Although I likely won't be upgrading to Studio One Pro myself, I would encourage anyone interested in Studio One to pay attention to Jeff Evans. He's one of the most knowledgeable users on this forum, and a nice guy, too. Thanks for all your great posts, Jeff!
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 03:06:20
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OK, here's a comparison for you: I've had perhaps a dozen crashes with SONAR in 14 years. All but one one of them was caused by a plugin, not SONAR. I've had 8 crashes with Studio One in 4 days. Mostly access violations, all raised in Studio One.exe. This does not inspire confidence. The good news is that Studio One does generate minidumps by default.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 03:14:34
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☄ Helpfulby doncolga 2017/11/30 03:23:29
I have had about 3 crashes with Studio One in 6 or 7 years so that to me inspires plenty of confidence. Sounds like it might be something else causing the issues if you are having S1 crash. It is not prone to crashing at all.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 03:50:20
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bitflipper OK, here's a comparison for you: I've had perhaps a dozen crashes with SONAR in 14 years. All but one one of them was caused by a plugin, not SONAR. I've had 8 crashes with Studio One in 4 days. Mostly access violations, all raised in Studio One.exe. This does not inspire confidence. The good news is that Studio One does generate minidumps by default.
Bit, There has to be something strange happening with your system. If this was a widespread issue it would be all over the forums. I have been running SOP for a little over a year and I find that it is more stable than Sonar. It seems very rock solid. I can do "stupid" things like go internet browsing while SOP is running in the background with no problem whatsoever.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 04:29:00
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☄ Helpfulby Ionian 2017/11/30 05:34:14
Guys, good grief. It's silly to bash Studio One (or any other DAW) if you've only spent a few hours, or a few days on it compared to years you've been on Sonar. Some of the things I'm seeing people get stuck on are really basic, but you do need to learn how the other DAW does it; it's not going to be just like Sonar, and you shouldn't expect it to be. Six months ago I thought Sonar was the only game in town. Then, some Studio One users explained some of their workflow. It really opened my eyes and got me investigating more. I can tell you that after about six months Studio One, and mixing probably about 50 songs on it, my current workflow mops the floor with my Sonar workflow, for production and mixing, and that's after being with Sonar for a really long time. Do what feels right, of course, but give it some time, you may very likely like it better after you see how things work. A few bread and butter items: I don't need a gain knob. The easiest way to adjust the gain of an audio track is to click the track event and drag up the blue handle in the middle; as a bonus, the waveform changes accordingly...I may be wrong but never noticed that in Sonar. You can toss in the Mix Tool plugin on all tracks at one if you like, and there you'll get polarity, gain knob, other good stuff. I'll admit, they should put a polarity switch right on the strip. Select multiple tracks: CTRL+ click the ones you want, then set faders as a group. Select all tracks: Click the first, Shift, click the last. (agreed, CTRL+A is better) Once you select the tracks, drag in any plugins you like, very easy and all at once. Function Keys: just try them out and toggle them...very cool. To add a VI: click and drag it to a track Multiple outputs on VI's. On the console, click the arrow by the VI, click expand and check the outputs you want. Set outputs accordingly on the VI. Eezy peezy. Freeze a VI: right click and "transform to audio" Manual plugin scan: open the browser on the right, click the home button, click "update plugins". File management? Songs and project file management is super tidy in Studio One. Very easy to find anything. It handles much of this for you in a great, logical way. Track management? That was a nightmare for me in Sonar. Click, scroll, click, scroll. On Studio One I can organize tracks for a big 70-80 plus track project in like 3 minutes on Studio One, then focus really easily on the groups I need when it's time to start mixing. I'm lighting fast on Studio One...I'm not bragging, that's just a fact. It has a proper track list, and when you click on a track on the tracklist, you land on that mixer strip. Sonar did not do this and this was a complete PITA. The tracklist also shows you at a glance what's playing. Export: Set begin and end markers, CRTL+E, pick your format, done. Plugin chain windows: you can get to all the plugins on one window. I didn't notice this in Sonar, and it's insanely convenient. Float the mixer to another monitor? Of course. But I don't need to. F3 to show the mixer, drag it all the way up for a huge, gorgeous console with the longest faders, then F3 to toggle between the editor and mixer. My eyes are not working so hard by constantly going back and forth between two monitors. It's one less monitor to buy. But yes, it will do that. Sidechaining: add a send, click side chain, pick the destination. Tempo change: show the Tempo Track. set the resolution (probably already done), alt+click and drag to draw your tempo changes in. Or, + on the tempo track to add a new tempo. Time signature change: right click on the top timeline to insert a new time signature. It's like everything is a 1-2 click operation. It's taken me mixing about 30 songs before getting to what I felt was pretty good proficiency, and I still have much to learn. But after that, Studio One is just working much better for me now.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 05:07:16
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bitflipper OK, here's a comparison for you: I've had perhaps a dozen crashes with SONAR in 14 years. All but one one of them was caused by a plugin, not SONAR. I've had 8 crashes with Studio One in 4 days. Mostly access violations, all raised in Studio One.exe. This does not inspire confidence. The good news is that Studio One does generate minidumps by default.
I had this problem in version 2 when I locked my sample buffers on my Emu 1616 pci. I know it may not help being as it's version 3 but might be a hardware conflict. I sure if you post your dump file to the forum you may get some help. That's the only thing that crashed me but version 3 runs okay here as fas I can tell and still using the Emu on windows 7.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 06:47:59
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Perhaps a dozen crashes with SONAR in 14 years is a very hard pill to swallow. I had more auto fault reports in a couple weeks (was on earlier X3 versions).
If one knows the landmines and has a static workflow, it is possible, but most users aren't that lucky.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 08:43:22
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sharke Again, for those claiming that one DAW has a superior basic sound than another, answer me this. Why have DAW manufacturers (apart from Harrison) never, ever approached their marketing efforts from that angle? Can you think of one single DAW manufacturer (apart from Harrison) which has boasted about such things as "warmth," or "superior stereo imaging" from their sound? I can't. In fact if anything, the only thing you can imagine them boasting about is how transparent their sound is, and you don't even hear them say that.
Not true. I have seen Daws marketed as Enhanced audio engine, Superior sound, etc. I have watched a few S1 videos where its marketed as sounding superior. Not sure if its a official video. However the validity of such marketing is questionable. And dont forget that protools was marketed for a while stating as sounding best. I couldnt find those old promos now. This is one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPPjpjZGtns
There is another video its all about protools sounding better.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 09:06:23
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doncolga Multiple outputs on VI's. On the console, click the arrow by the VI, click expand and check the outputs you want. Set outputs accordingly on the VI. Eezy peezy. Plugin chain windows: you can get to all the plugins on one window. I didn't notice this in Sonar, and it's insanely convenient.
These two are killer features in S1. All the others you have stated are available in Sonar, some with little more clicks and some even more easier. Sonar does have clip gain, but gain knob is more convenient in many situations. We gotta deal with it. Any daw will miss many features and as sonar is in dead end we gotta deal with these few workarounds for a while I guess. Yet its hard to deal with the absence of track templates and Numeric meters in channel strips. Numeric peak meters are very useful in balancing the level of before fx and after fx signals while processing. I need it almost always and the workaround to use a separate plugin for that is a lot to do.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 11:09:59
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How can I reach other than the few first markers in the song with the qwerty keyboard? I often have up to 40 markers in the songs. and they shows in the time bar.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 11:43:14
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Jarsve How can I reach other than the few first markers in the song with the qwerty keyboard? I often have up to 40 markers in the songs. and they shows in the time bar.
Ok it's off topic....but Sonar gui is awesome!
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 12:00:40
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bitflipper OK, here's a comparison for you: I've had perhaps a dozen crashes with SONAR in 14 years. All but one one of them was caused by a plugin, not SONAR. I've had 8 crashes with Studio One in 4 days. Mostly access violations, all raised in Studio One.exe. This does not inspire confidence. The good news is that Studio One does generate minidumps by default.
Thats incredible bitflipper. I have been running it for 4 days on a laptop also running a dmx controller, x32 control software, traktor dj, Sonar and an autoloader. It hasn't missed a beat. Equally amazing is that you have only had a dozen crashes in 14 years. I am guessing you skipped X1 and X2;)
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 12:22:06
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Did a few basic null tests and so far everything nulled perfectly. I didn't even use any change in fader or pan so its a very basic null test. But it nulled. While nulling few vsti riffs however there was difference but thats coz synths dont output 100% same audio everytime??(correct me if I am wrong.) So I guess these synth tracks not nulling is not a Sonar or S1 problem. When I bounced the same instrument track twice in Sonar itself and try to null both they don't null. Other than that I guess there is no difference in audio engine of both. I haven't run any extensive tests so too early to conclude. However I am pretty sure the GUI alters our auditory perception a lot. Seems thats how the brain works. Sonar's GUI is very inspiring specially while mixing. Jarsve The faders are different. And I dont have Breverb, REmatrix Solo and BT Compressor CP2S-3. For the Bass with the BT Compressor, I imported the freezed track.
So you haven't finished your mix yet? The Sonar mix is very good so probably you can try the same fader and pan levels. For reverb try to use some other plugin with almost the same settings. I guess it will turn out fine.
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 14:02:05
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One aspect of Studio One that might take SONAR users a while to get used to is how multitimbral vst instruments are handled e.g. Sampletank, Kontakt, UVI Falcon etc. It took me a few days to get my head around this but when you have several MIDI tracks routed to individual MIDI channels on the same VSTi and use a MIDI volume fader on just one of the tracks to adjust that track: ALL the tracks are adjusted?! This seems counter intuitive and the only way I can get things to behave in the manner of just about every other DAW on the planet is to enable as many individual audio outputs in the VSTi as I need for separate tracks and control the track volumes (and pan) from there via the console view. There are postings on the Presonus forums questioning this issue but it seems that the software is actually designed to work this way. Despite this, I have enjoyed working with SI hugely and for me, despite some 'habit induced' niggles, believe that most SONAR users would feel at home with this DAW
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Re: Comparing Sonar with Studio One
2017/11/30 14:06:44
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Jarsve How can I reach other than the few first markers in the song with the qwerty keyboard? I often have up to 40 markers in the songs. and they shows in the time bar.
Shift + B and Shift + Y
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