The first experiment.

First off, I do not believe that Cakewalk is dying or going away any time soon.

I am NOT leaving SONAR as my main DAW.

But I did start my experiment of recording a full song in that PeaSomus Pro 2.5 product. It's a new original.

So far I have recorded a rhythm guitar track to a click track. No surprise there; it sounded just as fine as it would have in SOINAR.

I added FX inserts. Of course nothing shocking there. Similar drag and drop from the browser like SONAR.

My "setup" issues were minor. My transport and fader controls via the Tascam FW-1884 only required that I set the FW-1884 to Mackie HUI emulation mode (of course I'll have to remember to switch back for SOANR, or examine how SONAR can accept Mackie HUI commands from my FW-1884). I read a fred on the PeaSomus forum about how to have the FW-1884 learn the S1 keyboard shortcuts, so that is something down the road when I want to do more sophisticated controller things in the mixing stage.

And since I also have a Frontier Tranzport (a gift from Mooch) I can just use that for transport control during tracking. Which I tried out for one take of the rhythm guitar. Worked as expected.

Next step is to record some drums and/or percussion to the song then some bazz and probably piano. Of course drums/perc will be MIDI, maybe me playing my kit (we'll see). As well the piano will be MIDI too.

Then wrap it up with some vox (uh oh, Mooch is gonna hate that I'm going to claim to be singing again).

As you can tell, the plan is for this to be all me. No collabs on this experiment. Maybe it will be a demo for a SONAR collab. Maybe not.

In the meantime I am working with Philz on a new original of his in SONAR.

Just one question Ed: who is this SOINAR you speak about?

bapu

alexoosthoek


Just one question Ed: who is this SOINAR you speak about?

Just testing to see who is awake and who isn't.

Yeah, roight

Almost forgot the most important question......












Does their forum software suck too or are we the lucky ones?

Mike! 

bapu


First off, I do not believe that Cakewalk is dying or going away any time soon.

I am NOT leaving SONAR as my main DAW.

But I did start my experiment of recording a full song in that PeaSomus Pro 2.5 product. It's a new original.

So far I have recorded a rhythm guitar track to a click track. No surprise there; it sounded just as fine as it would have in SOINAR.

I added FX inserts. Of course nothing shocking there. Similar drag and drop from the browser like SONAR.

My "setup" issues were minor. My transport and fader controls via the Tascam FW-1884 only required that I set the FW-1884 to Mackie HUI emulation mode (of course I'll have to remember to switch back for SOANR, or examine how SONAR can accept Mackie HUI commands from my FW-1884). I read a fred on the PeaSomus forum about how to have the FW-1884 learn the S1 keyboard shortcuts, so that is something down the road when I want to do more sophisticated controller things in the mixing stage.

And since I also have a Frontier Tranzport (a gift from Mooch) I can just use that for transport control during tracking. Which I tried out for one take of the rhythm guitar. Worked as expected.

Next step is to record some drums and/or percussion to the song then some bazz and probably piano. Of course drums/perc will be MIDI, maybe me playing my kit (we'll see). As well the piano will be MIDI too.

Then wrap it up with some vox (uh oh, Mooch is gonna hate that I'm going to claim to be singing again).

As you can tell, the plan is for this to be all me. No collabs on this experiment. Maybe it will be a demo for a SONAR collab. Maybe not.

In the meantime I am working with Philz on a new original of his in SONAR.

I agree, Cakewalk isn't going away any time soon. And I plan to stick with SONAR for quite a while, though it will be interesting to see what happens in about 12 months from now. 

Read a review at SOS and I lurked around on the Premonus forums and came across an interesting thread in regards to how well Studio One handles large and complex projects. 

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Bub

SongCraft

... I lurked around on the Premonus forums and came across an interesting thread in regards to how well Studio One handles large and complex projects.

System specs please.

I've already 'demoed' Presonus Studio using XP, 32, (older system for example; 2.gig Ram), loaded up multiple audio tracks, several instrument plugins and effects such as T-Racks and Ozone.  The system handled it all surprisingly well, performance meters well below 50 percent. And I didn't experience any sluggish UI behavior (as mentioned in that thread)..... continue..... 

To be fair, I trialed the demo and I should point out that I didn't have Melodyne ARA activated and my guess is that would drain a lot on system resources however, Melodyne can be disabled/enabled in preferences.  For XP 32 users with minimal ram working with Melodyne should still be doable, for more info please visit Celemony's site. 

Specs According to Presonus website: 

WINDOWS® XP, VISTA®, 7 (32- OR 64-BIT)
Hardware Minimum
Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon® X2 processor
2 GB RAM
Hardware Recommended
Intel Core 2 Quad or AMD Athlon X4 or better
4 GB RAM
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Internet connection (not required on machine where Studio One is installed but needed for activation)
DVD-ROM drive
A monitor resolution no lower than 1280 x 768 pixels
20 GB hard-drive space

See Details - Watch Videos - System Specs - Download Demo


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Bub

 

I was jokin' 'round with ya.  There's a few guys upstairs that won't even comment on anything unless you give them your system specs.  

Like Ron Jeremy?