Just ride the damn thing till the wheels fall off

I'm still using SONAR, but learning Reaper for the day when SONAR breaks; or when I know Reaper well enough to make it my main DAW.  No panic here, just planning for the future.  Business (I do make living this way) as usual in the meantime.

"use your cakewalk products until you cant any more"
My plan exactly. I demoed them all (most?); bought Reaper.
Pulled an old Sonar 2 project into Reaper (it needed a key change and lots of midi work).
The only 'keeper' audio track was a harmonic part that I had to pitch shift down 7 semi tones (sounds crazy huh?)
The midi transfer went flawlessly (markers, tempo changes). Reaper handled the pitch shift perfectly.
I got 'into' the project, and the subtle (and not subtle) midi editing in Reaper made me crazy.
Pulled it back in SPlat, I'm polishing the turd (whoops), "master" as we speak (well as I write).
Can/will I become "comfortable" in Reaper; no doubt about it!
But today, no, I'm staying with SPlat to the bitter end...
 
T

Ya, that's my plan too... with SONAR and this forum.

Beepster
And really I have a fully functioning rig (touch wood) that does everything I need for now. The only REAL reason the whole thing could tank is if my MOBO fails but I've heard in such events there is a mechanism whereby Microsoft will allow you to transfer your license to the new MOBO.
 
I don't see SATA drives or DDR3 RAM becoming scarce if that stuff fails. My Scarlett interface is rock solid but again replaceable.
 
I guess I'm hopeful that somehow Cake zombies themselves in one way or another but I'm not freaking out in the slightest about my own personal pursuits.
 
If this had happened a few years ago? Ya, then I would have been sooper pissed... because even basic stuff was borking out (dear X2... you sucked).
 
 
/pointless blather
 

Basic stuff still borks out for me even though things improved a lot since X2. Like Sonar not even being able to retain plugin settings that I saved with a project, and automation lanes doing weird things (like going missing). I used to tolerate big ass bugs like this in the hope that they would be fixed eventually. Now that I know they're never getting fixed, I have no reason to defend Sonar to myself and thus moving on to a fresh new DAW without these problems is going to feel like heaven, when I get around to it that is....

Beepster
If this had happened a few years ago? Ya, then I would have been sooper pissed... because even basic stuff was borking out (dear X2... you sucked).

 
actually, x2 was pretty stable
x1 however...
 

HNY all-
it took me ages to realise that the vast majority of users here create their music and probably enjoy the technical challenges of the software as much as the end result.i record predominately live and for tracking and overdubbing,it`s hard to beat 8:5.- absolutely rock solid,never seen the internet-i have a new,cloned program drive in case and it now apparently has a "cool retro vibe".
i can even get a reasonable mixdown but anything worthwhile goes out of house.
have been dabbling with Mixbus but being mildly dyslexic it`s a struggle.
i do feel for the advanced users who will probably have to moove on-fortunately for me ,a wav is a wav and the rest is just the icing on the cake.
will miss this forum though-it`s easy on the eye(and the brain) first thing in the morning.....
cheers
 

Sonar Platinum until the end!!!  May unplug network on main system while this CPU issue is sorted out.