SOS Drops Sonar Tips Column?

Someone mentioned before that Sound on Sound was failing to include Sonar now in its monthly DAW tips.  At first, I thought this was temporary since the magazine was reviewing X2 in the same issue; however, there has been no Sonar column for three months now.
 
What's up?

Apparently the Feb issue it got overlooked.?!?!?!?!?

From Graig if I'm not wrong its because they are reviewing X2. 

I used to have a subscription to it for many years and in all that time the Sonar column would on occasion not appear. Next issue it would be back. This was also true for its other DAW columns.  

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or "spelled";-)

easy solution to this.. since it's not like we have information overload already...


I'm just gonna adopt Craig , Scott, Karl and Eli for good measure.. obviously I won't be providing meals or pocket money.. I guess thats a deal breaker hehe

It has definitely not been dropped, however, Sound on Sound was kind enough to send the column to a nice vacation in Hawaii. Being paper, of course it couldn't swim very much. But, if you open up the April issue and find there's some spilled Mai Tai on the Sonar column, you'll understand why.

I wish they'd sent me instead, but they said "Craig, you're only the author. The column is what people actually read." No respect.

But seriously...January had the X2 review, so no column there. February they were overbooked, and I get the impression they were so slammed they kind of forgot about March. The good news is I don't have any deadlines for a little bit because they have some columns in reserve.

They rotate out columns a lot, but Sonar is actually one of the most consistent ones because Sonar users write the magazine and panic that they will be deprived of their monthly diet of whatever fun stuff I learned about that month. So feel free to email SOS and tell them "never do that again!!" Although the column did have a good time in Hawaii.

I was there a few years ago and it is everything one dreams it to be.  Here in Michigan one has a fondness for the tropics around this time of year.

Cactus Music


Hawaii Rocks -- specially the Big Island... They still have live music...

My snow has melted a bit Hmm! -2 C   If I was an american citizen I know which state I'd choose! 

My fave is Molokai. People ask me "Why? There's no one there, nothing to do, and they don't like haoles."
 
Exactly

If I was an american citizen I know which state I'd choose! 

Probably just as well, cactus. Your pasty white Canadian flesh would be crisped right off your bones. Just enjoy your rain tan and be happy no coconuts will ever land on your car, or on your head.


Myself, I'm off to the tropics on March 1st - with 110 SPF sunscreen in hand (I didn't even know the numbers went that high!) to keep my own pasty Pacific Northwest skin from turning into burnt leather. No coconut repellant, though. I've learned to sit under mango trees instead, as mango attacks are less likely to be fatal.

Thanks, Craig.  That's good to hear.

By the way, I read the other DAW columns on a regular basis because there are many tips that are applicable to all DAWs--just done with different functions or called by different names.  Plus, who knows: maybe one day I will be using Studio One or Cubase.

Skyline_UK

Anderton


...  They rotate out columns a lot, but Sonar is actually one of the most consistent ones ...

That's telling isn't it.
SOS's eternal romance with Cubase means they'd never park that column, and the obscurer DAW tips columns are included regularly, but they feel they can park the Sonar one whenever they're strapped for a couple of pages of space. 

Sorry if I wasn't clear, by consistent I meant consistently IN the magazine, not rotated out. I wouldn't exactly say Sonar gets preferential treatment, but the readers have made it clear they like having the column in there, so it has an excellent attendance record


As to being strapped for a couple pages, believe me, I can relate. There are NEVER enough pages in a magazine for all the stories that need to be covered. If my column gets left on the cutting room floor every now and then, I of all people understand!

If there's one thing you can't accuse SOS of, it's an anti-Sonar bias. They've consistently reviewed Cakewalk stuff well and ran techniques features on CPA / Sonar for as long as I can recall (and I've bought it every month for about 15 years).