Top 10 Best DAW 2015 – Best Music Software

You can choose to buy a SONAR full license or paying a monthly subscription

CW has tried so hard to avoid such definition...

Well people and cakewalk can call it what they want, and make repeated vain attempts to explain what it is or is not, they can play semantics until the cows come home, the facts are that to the majority it IS a subscription, in the same way that everyone has come to understand magazine subscriptions etc etc, when you get to the end of your subscription, you keep the magazines, you don't give them back, or they don't miraculously become unreadable or go into demo mode, same thing. That IS what a subscription is to a lot of people, most people, stop trying to step around it, and going to great lengths to try and talk people out of thinking its a subscription, that's what they know a subscription as, call it what it is.

As for the DAW's, haven't used fruit loops, but ableton is fine, I however would put Studio One at the top followed by Reaper, then leave the rest in order behind them. Studio One deserves all the recognition it gets, it has so many outstanding and useful features, features that for me are indespensable, and it's not just the big features, it's rock solid, and feels so polished, since changing from Sonar I haven't looked back, haven't missed a thing. Reaper, well it is an awesomely powerful DAW, very deep and capable, and practically without limits, stuff it has had for years is only now being implemented in other DAW's like Sonar, it's only issue is its 'look' it's user friendliness, a lot of people assume it can't do this or that, when in fact it can, it's just hidden away in some right click menu or some obscure place, and that is also part of the problem, it's not really intuitive in places like that. But look out world if they ever address that side of it.

But one thing for Sonar, it has good forums, especially with regards to the software and deals forums.

"Every year this question arises much discussion on electronic music forums and social networks."

The rest of us have a life. :P
 
The top 5 of that list shows that much of their target audience probably consist of so-called pro DJ/self-proclaimed producers working in the basement in their mom's house on a cracked copy of Fruity Loops and maybe DJ'ing in some hell hole one weekend a month for $20 and/or 3 drinks.
 
Rain
100% spot on
Nigel
 

let the marketing dudes battle it out and decide the future of language!

The fact that ProTools, the DAW used in the majority of big for-hire studios and by many if not most professionals in the music industry is rated 7th tells you all you need to know about this survey.  PT is the lingua franca of the music business, which means SONAR is 2nd since it follows PT.

pwalpwal
let the marketing dudes battle it out and decide the future of language!

Not only NO, but HELL NO. Have you not read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? Consider the following (from the Wikipedia entry for Brave New World):
 
Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the worlds of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He writes:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.

 
Entertainment and advertising are merging...and I hate it.

TheMaartian

pwalpwal
let the marketing dudes battle it out and decide the future of language!

Not only NO, but HELL NO. Have you not read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? Consider the following (from the Wikipedia entry for Brave New World):
 
Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the worlds of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. He writes:

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.

 
Entertainment and advertising are merging...and I hate it.

Seems Huxley was the visionary here.

There's only two types of musicians and producers that live in their Mamma's basement …
 
The musicians and producers that did real good and bought their Mama a brand new house when they hit it big . They are the first type .
 
Type two is all the rest of the folks   
 
Kenny