dbmusic,

You said it all and very well I might add. The controller is great tho - at least it looks great - played with it at NAMM. Every function of Sonar 8 is at your fingertips - the blended xray toggle was particularly cool. I would overpay to get the controller - but I won't replace all of my I/O or buy a high end hardward synth to get it. Newbies won't be able to justify 5 grand to get into the market - Like you I can't see who buys this - at least in any numbers. I have a feeling that the only way to get the kind of control they have is to control the entire I/O chain.

d

Put me down as another vote for controller-only availability. With a MOTU Mk3, Fantom-X, V-Synth GT and a raft of hardware and software synths, this is simply money wasted for me that I could use for something else in the studio. As a controller, it looks fantastic for controlling Sonar, but as currently configured it still would make more sense for me to go with the Mackie Control.

And a $200 dollar rebate? Give me a break. Like many, I already have bought and paid for the full Producer edition the full version of Rapture. I'm having trouble figuring out how they worked the math to come up with only a $200 rebate.

Hi Crg,

I am certain it would work - one would just plug the cakewalk I/O into an exsiting signal chain. But would I like that better than using my Germanium, portico 5012, Vipre or ADl 600 preamp through my APogee AD/DA, GMA 8900 and Neve 8816 summing mixer.? In fact I would probably be concerned about a possible signal degradation. $5,000 is a big number and only gear addicts like us will buy things like this. What we Sonar guys needs is controller support and we have needed it for some time. It makes no sense to ignore such market hunger. Come on CakeWalk / Roland - do you hear what I hear?

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Hi Crg,

I am certain it would work - one would just plug the cakewalk I/O into an exsiting signal chain. But would I like that better than using my Germanium, portico 5012, Vipre or ADl 600 preamp through my APogee AD/DA, GMA 8900 and Neve 8816 summing mixer.? In fact I would probably be concerned about a possible signal degradation. $5,000 is a big number and only gear addicts like us will buy things like this. What we Sonar guys needs is controller support and we have needed it for some time. It makes no sense to ignore such market hunger. Come on CakeWalk / Roland - do you hear what I hear?

I think it's just a question of time , this is called V studio , so the target marked is more ingeneer or producer who want a all in one ready to go set up , of course we have here all the same wishes , and cakewalk will release the surface later , i'm sure they will !!!

The question is when ?

the fact is that if they have dropped on the table two options , surface only and the whole set up , i don't think they would be able to sell the all in one set up , so basically people who really want the surface (like me) will buy the vs studio just for it .....at the same time it will be the occasion for costumers to apreciate the inteface and so by the way cake-roland give the proof to the community that they handle the inerface aspect better than everybody seems to think....