Sound on Sound: SONAR X1 review is out

Mooch4056

It's still about $, especially these days.

for thousands of years after we're dead .. and until the end of times ..... and even before .... since man walked up right...it's been about money... and Pu$$y a close 2nd  

Middleman


I tend to think of the forum as a tribal hoard versus a community.

I tend to think of the forum as a tribal hoard versus a community.

wormser


Is there an advertisement for Sonar on the page facing the review in SOS?

bitflipper


Have you noticed that not a single magazine review has so much as mentioned the complaints among the user community?

Had the reviewer been researching a personal purchase, he would have certainly made note of it.

space_cowboy

ba_midi

...wicked


http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr11/articles/sonar-x1.htm

I'm still going over it myself, but generally speaking it's quite positive.

You think it wouldn't be? 

I notice that there were some write-ups in Future Music when X1 first came out.  This last issue?  Nada.  Nothing.  Zilch.

Interesting.

But reviews I take with a very small grain of salt.    It's still about $, especially these days.

Bam idi
I always think that the FM stuff is way biased towards European companies.  I tend to take their reviews with a grain of salt knowing that their perspective is way slanted towards their favorites and not those of us on this side of the pond.


I have found SOS to be a lot less biased.  I bought East West's The Dark Side (expensive) based on a FM review I read.  I was hugely disappointed with the product.  Great sounds, but stuck with their sample engine and limited selection of sounds for the money.


By comparison, SOS was much more harsh.  And much more in line with my feelings about the product.


I know advertising always is the main source of income for these rags and that there is a tendency to not jostle the apple cart, but out of Keyboard, EM, SOS, FM, Guitar Player and several other mags, SOS is the closest to an unbiased review.  And more importantly, they tend to be much more in depth.  FM tends to put a review into maybe 2 pages.  


Look at the recent reviews on the UAD Studer plug-in.  SOS devoted tons of pages to it.  Head to head competition with a real Reel to Reel using various speeds and tape formulations.  


While I have not stopped traveling long enough recently to even check my mail, much less read the SOS review, I know I go into their stuff with a much more open mind.  


But yeah, tempus fugit, caveot emptor and semper fi.  


Whatever those mean.