Thanks, Rimshot... more than two is quite awesome... gonna have to think on this... both daws have so many unique and awesome things.... And the more I've thought of the scratch pad it really would be nice for exploring new choices for song parts.  
 
The live stream was really a good sales pitch.  The bakers should do more of these, as Platinum has just as many uniquely powerful features, just different ones... I think Platinum is so uniquely powerful and don't really see being able to many things I currently do.  Plus, trying the S2 demo left me cold a long time ago.  Maybe it was my mood or lack of clarity at the time, I don't know... they say it's so easy to use but I felt frustrated after so long with the baked goodies...
 
Vegas pro is next on my list for the moment, anyway!  Gotta start videoizing my songs.... but hope the bakers reflect on some of these enhancements as they are really cool, workflow wise (could care less about the sampler, synth)

Pretty much the same here. Midi doesn't seemed to be improved & is lacking compared to other daws.
For mastering it's great though. Not upgrading either.

Crap....
 
It's what I get for hanging onto ancient technology.
Have a rock solid win XP system.
 
Downloaded the demo and hard halt on win 7 and above required.
 
John

Rimshot
Hey Tak T., 
FYI, the colors are now user defined in S1 V3.

 
Oh, cool. Thanks for the info. I guess CW now needs to work even harder to compete with this DAW.

Presonus has just made one happy customer! 

Just a quick look at the S1 forum and it reads like any other major release of any DAW. Bugs, complaints, praise, in-fighting and Bub too.

How large is the Demo?  I may try the demo out, but I have really, horribly bad internet connection.  
 
[Edit:  Nevermind.  I went to the Presonus site and see that Demo only has some of the addons; so it is not too large for me to try out.]

There is a TON of add on's that come with it...up to 3 GB in a single download...

There are 29 downloads in the full Pro Version.
Only 4 in the Demo...

I don't think the included 4 have anything new from 2.6...but I can't swear to it.

Four commands that I have posted in the Sonar Features Request forum showed up in ver 3 - Trim to start, Trim to end, Fade to start and Fade to end. You can also assign these to a hot key which saves a ton of time when mixing. I totally miss these commands from Pro Tools.

Brando
Yes I think Presonus have been mining our Features and Ideas Forum (hopefully) as much as Cakewalk have been. LOL (?)

Well, any DAW vendor would be crazy not to keep close tabs on the competition, and what better way than to monitor the feature requests forum?  What's disappointing is that Cakewalk, Steinberg, et. al. then often turn around and completely ignore innovations and developments of their competitors.
 
I just watched a Groove 3 video on the S3 extended FX chains.  Wow!  What an inspired and powerful feature.  The S1 team has set the bar really high in this area.
 
Fortunately for me, the S1 tempo capabilities are really primitive compared to Cubase, so I don't have to suffer through the agony of "should I switch?" internal debates.  Money considerations aside, learning a DAW is *way* too much effort to make such a decision lightly.  But I hope the Cubase product designers are paying close attention to the S1 FX chain feature.  I would assume all of you SONAR guys are hoping the same thing of the CW team.

Mix,
 
You bring up a good point.
 
Reaper is way ahead of Sonar in being able to sequence synths onto one track, but there are limitations in the fast fix.
 
Sonar clone, like you said "laborious" gives far better individual synth control.
 
This same approach can be done with any multi track DAW like Sonar unable to host more than one vsti per track, as far as I understand it.
 
Was always pushing Energy XT for you guys to try, because XT brings Sonar capability to the level of what Studio One 3 claims it can now deliver.
 
Studion One 3 looks like it brings all the needed parameters into one channel to do any and everything needed, minus the ability to go into a single cloned track and edit midi notes.
 
Esay for me to judge from the sidelines since I can't even install the demo on my dinosaur win xp system.
 
You guys know better who have it up and running, but if things work the way theye are supposed to, Studio One 3 has left us all behind in the dust, only regarding handling of multiple vsti synths on a single track. Doesn't affect or mean s*** to a tree for the vocalist or a guitar player.
 
John
 
 

the 'fast fix'....     ;-D

mudgel
Man the Presonus forum is fairly alight. Rave reviews to outright condemnation of the dev team.

only forum that does that I suppose??? (Rolls eyes)

Another thing they are ahead on... mobile interface. Cmon, Cakewalk, you're falling behind on the frontrunning innovation You've been known for!