I just wrapped up my first album in 19 years using Sonar 7 and I can't freaking believe how awesome it sounds. I REALLY could NOT have done it without it. My first album was done on an Analog 16 track on 2" tape. I'm able to do more in my bedroom than I did paying $30/hour back in 1988.

Amazing.

I'm a lifer.

Well, I dunno - does this count..?

I'd been seeing a young local singer/songwriter showing up at coffee houses and open mics in the area since around the turn of the century. A couple years back I noted that her material, and stage presence, had matured considerably - in fact the tunes had made what I felt to be a quantum leap forward, nice simple little country/pop gems - I could definately hear a great deal of production potential in them. We already had a nodding acquaintance, and I approached her and offered to bring her into my personal studio and produce the songs into a more finished, radio-friendly form. I enlisted a few of my musician friends to contribute, and after some trial and error - and several upgrades to studio gear - we had a "finished" product.

She's done pretty well with it, selling some thousands of copies mostly at her solo acoustic shows - some local airplay, appearances on the local morning shows, opening at smaller venues for some lesser national acts. And I've kept some of my musician friends on call for occasional "full band" shows - if we've felt that a given appearance was high profile enough (for her) to warrant it, we can rehearse up her set in short order.

Well, last month a local country radio station announced a contest whereby they solicited local acts to send in a song - between airplay and website voting they narrowed some 30+ entries down to a final 4, who battled it out at the local Hard Rock two Fridays ago. (And this was a full band deal...) She/we won that showdown - and the next afternoon there we were at University of Phoenix Stadium, opening for Kenney Chesney's "Poets & Pirates" tour. This event also positions her to possibly be selected (from other such winners in other cities) to be asked to close out the last week or so of the tour on the road with the KC organization - they provide a tour bus, a buncha cash, and of course exposure to Chesney's label. Understandably, she's pretty much scraping the popcorn off of the ceilings at this point, gotta tie her to a cinder block to get her anywhere close to the floor.

Call me an ego-monster, but I don't think she'd have gotten to this point without the competitive quality production I was able to provide her with. The songs are most definately hers - but the production and developement of the tunes was most definately mine. And the recording platform was Sonar.

Tracked in Sonar 1, mixed in Sonar 3 (which I'm still using, does everything I need).

http://www.myspace.com/maryhoffman

I use Sonar 6PE for everything I do, including the last 4 albums I've done for a client and one I'm working on now and a bunch of backing tracks I use for my band. I wouldn't change it at all.

Hello,

I´m a big fan of Sonar, since the cake with legs logo!
Recently i made a soundtrack to VIVO, one of the biggest telephonic companies in Brazil. It´s for a game, called Vivo em ação 4 (Vivo in action, Version 4), to be played on cellphones.

Here´s the link to the soundtrack/video: www.musilab.com.br/vivo.wma

I´m also working on several soundtracks to an israeli dance festival that will occur next year. I´m arranging and composing to several dance groups. The music styles are Yemenite, Ladino (spanish like), Hora (israeli), Arabic, and many others.

Last year composition´s and arrangements can be listened on www.musilab.com.br/trilhas/MUSILAB_MIX2007.mp3

I´d like to thanks Cakewalk that let´s me today, write to the most famous music maganize in Brazil (called Backstage) and write a Mixing Book of almost 300 pages full of information of the mixing process, including some cool things on Sonar.

Thanks for reading, listening and watching ! :)

Daniel Farjoun
www.opoderdamixagem.com.br
www.musilab.com.br

On July 4th, Kicksville will release "The Results of a Higher Mission", our second album from Ropeadope Records (DJ Logic, Marco Benevento, The Frequency, etc.). As always, all of our production is done with SONAR. We be touring in July to support the release, again using SONAR to drive everything from console automation to video sync (not to mention throwing screen shots of the SONAR interface on a 10 ft. video wall during the show).

just thought we'd share

visit our web site or Ropeadope's site for more info on the upcoming record:
www.kicksville.com
www.ropeadope.com

Well, I don't have any success stories like the 'big boys' in this thread, but I've been a faithful CakeWalk user since the 8.0 days. I've never tried any other DAW software, except maybe Sound Forge for mastering, but even that was short-lived. Because of CakeWalk, I was able to create some music that I consider fairly decent and have some long term collabs with others on the Songs forum that have resulted in making good music as well. I've really never had any issues with the software, (other than my own mistakes). Hopefully in the not-to-near future, I can compile a Cd, and who knows, maybe even sell it. Stranger things have happened!! Thanks Cake for doing what you do!!

We now have 4 (soon to be 5) CDs available at:
http://cdbaby.com/all/donniec
Of course all these were done using SONAR.

Good news. My latest album, Peeling Away the Beauty (Recorded & Mastered in Sonar), was just released! It's available on DanielBon.com & iTunes.

Good news !

The third installment of the Exile Collection is now available, "No Excuses"

All noobs must follow the link below and buy a copy,
to extinguish any and all burning questions about SONAR, it's flexibility, and its sound quality

Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie,
Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie,
Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie,
Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie,
Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie,
Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie,
Obey the Dog, Obey the doggie !


http://cdbaby.com/cd/exilecollection3

Sorry about the brackets around the link in the previous post. This should work.

http://cdbaby.com/all/donniec

Hey there,

Thought I'd let you know that in april of this year I won an Emmy for outstanding achievement in composition. All the work was carried out in Sonar 7 producer. Check out www.markwillott.com

Thanks,

Mark

The Latest Exile Collection was produced by a bunch of people from all over the world, mostly using SONAR, and is the third release from this online community of musicians, composers and SONAR users. Our studio mixed 6 of the tracks in SONAR 7.02 on Vista x64

Shortly we will be announcing the release of another completely SONAR produced album which, to put it mildly, is a genre crossing technological feat that simply could not have been done without SONAR.

I love sonar producer, and though I am blind totally, Sonar makes it easy for me to create my music. Its thanks to the folks of Sonar, that I am able to produce studio works jinggles, and able to teach other guitar, and bass students using Sonar. "thanks" Creg for having such a great product. Keep it up. NB, Jaws, and Caketalking are also a great part in the accessibility, and of course Dancing dots, and Mr. David Pinto.
I'd like to take the opertunity to thank all of you who have helpt me acheeve my music.

Thanks for the great and useful information ............

Well i have began my work on fullon Trance music with Logic 4.5 then moved to Cubase Sx ,and with the Version 4 of Cubase i have decided through researching facts and reviews ,that Sonar would be THE sequenzer for music production. Yes i was right.
Sonar 7 in use with a Dell Inspiron 1520 which uses the Riccoh Firewire chipset is awesome! . My machine FLYS Motu Ultralite Airways with a SPEED of 11 Ms latenzy with over 70 tracks in the project!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing !!!! This low latencys i could before not achieve with my previous system a Shuttle AMD 4200+ WITH RME hdsp (PCI!) and RME adi-2 converter. I realy Can hear the souncquality improvement of Sonar 7 over Logic and Cubase on my Dynaudios controlled by a SPL volume 2.Even a friend of mine which is a full Mac and Logic user and is also using Dynaudios has now bouht himself Sonar to use with Boot camp , just beacause its soo much better! Its AMAZING how much more brilliant i can make the High frequencies sound. I couldnt do this before with Cubase. Since Sonar 7 i do not use any third party plugs , because my tracks sound WWAAAAY better with the Sonars tools at use ! I guess 64Bits in rendering process and the outstanding, extremely komplex audioengine of Sonar are best there is ....
Oh by the way i have sold the access virus c AND the TcFinalzer 96k ............Sonar does the job better. And RAPTURE is a Fact! THANK YOU PEOPLE OF CAKEWALK SO MUCH!! High Five!
CRYPTEX MARBLE