Please help me decide on a new purchase

Hi. I have only demoed these products (in other studios), but I'm saving up for a Console1. 
I just like having the tactile feel of having something physical to adjust.
Both sounds great in my opinion, but I choose the physical product. And seeing that SONAR is one of two DAW's (that I know of) that is marketed with this integration makes it a big + in my book.
All the best.

iZotope has frequent sales... BF, Xmas, every time they introduce something new...so don't feel ur gonna miss something.
 
just my 2cents... knowing nothing about console 1

Thank you Lawajava, I have been watching a lot of Youtube videos of iZotope and they are indeed very good. It is such a tough decision, I wish I could afford them both but I am also buying a new pair of JBL 308 monitors.

Thanks Craig, emotionally I want the Console 1 because it is hard to resist the ability of being able to turn those knobs. I am agonizing trying to decide if I am leaving too much capability on the table by passing on the iZotope bundle.

Craig, I think you provided me with a great insight in my decision making process. I have every cakewalk plugin that cakewalk provides for the ProChannel. I have a decent understanding on how to use compressors, EQ’s and limiters. I have been studying them for many years. However, I am not a professional so I still struggle with the Mastering process. Most of the clients I work with do not have the capital to afford what a good mastering house can provide. I really only need something similar to what Ozone provides which seems to be a more straight forward approach to Mastering. I am able to get descent results using the Mastering tools that Cakewalk provides but it could be better. I am big on the workflow aspect to music making. Nothing aggravates me more than losing my momentum by having to spend a lot of time figuring out something when I am creating. Sometimes I limit myself to the capability of my Roland Fantom G when creating a track. I only have the included sounds to work with and the capabilities of the on board sequencer and I am able to create faster. Afterward, I can transfer the track to Sonar and replace some of the sounds using the endless amount of plugins and sounds I have which can take forever. The creating part is faster but transferring everything is a cumbersome process and not ideal. I use this process when I am creating a track for a client.
 
I say all this to say that you have just convinced me to go with Console 1 because workflow is more important to me. I will spend more time with the mastering tools I currently have on hand.
Thank you for your guidance.

This is true; I am prepared to put in the time it takes to become proficient at using Console 1. Hopefully I will get my money’s worth out of it.
 
Can you recommend a Maximizer plug-in excluding Waves products? I have been tempted to give LANDR a try. I have read mix results from users.

I haven't heard of bozdigitallabs "the Wall" before but I will look it up ASAP...thank you.

I bought The Wall pre-order. It's meant as direct competitor of the Waves & Izotope Maximizers and I like it as  a transparant limiter sofar. I haven't demoed Concrete limiter, but the Wall offers dual limiter mode and a flavor bar (compression vs  clipping/distortion). Maybe you can do a shootout between both?
 

I guess you dont need any of the two. Pluginwise you find everything in Sonar, so now you only missing the control surface features of the Softube. It seems to me its a market gap - there should be a simple MIDI product that costs $-20- $30 with say three knobs, two sliders and couple od switches to control DAW or effects soyou think you need to spend $??? on hardware.

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I guess you dont need any of the two. Pluginwise you find everything in Sonar, so now you only missing the control surface features of the Softube. It seems to me its a market gap - there should be a simple MIDI product that costs $-20- $30 with say three knobs, two sliders and couple od switches to control DAW or effects soyou think you need to spend $??? on hardware.

I have own many generic midi controllers and they have all been to finicky to use reliably with Sonar. I even purchased the Cakewalk A300 keyboard and while it does the best out of all of the ones I have owned, it still doesn't have the level of integration of Console 1 or say my NI Mashine.