Having Some SONAR Issues, Please Help

im shure as fast as i type this the fanboys will be out  to protect them.
 but the fact that us as consumers have been overcharged due to the new marketing strategy of cakewalk.
 iv  tryed eveything to get the issue with PC resolved, it had my best payed job hostage with a error message over
 the brick limiter. for weeks
 after askin on the forum and 6 long chats with support i have now been forced to refund the money for the project
 that is 1500 bucks over a plug in they gave away for 10 buck.
 i have tryed all advice offered and was told by sonar themself i would have to compleatly rebuild my project.
and as we know it never was the same, the client was unhappy watching sonar crash everytime i moved audio
 in the track view or piano view.
and now i have been driven to revisit sonar as a solid work horse daw.
 so please save it  thefanboys, its not my system cus i have 4 rigs with sonar, and it is the same on all. its broken period.
but the thing that offended me the most was the support i got and threats of getting ban since i dont just pay money for updating broken things i own, my only income for my famialy is now gone, i take this to heart.and its painful
 iv gone as far as to offer my service to cakewalk for free , and gone there in person and  have been asked to stay silent and hopful for some help.nothin happens with company  who just want profit ,period the help ends when somthing is need for $$$
 so as all the cakwalk employee's go home to enjoy there weekend . il be movin my studio since i have no reson to keep it.
sonar was the average guys daw, it saw cheap and easy, with great support back in the day.
 and besides a few gems like brandon and kelly  in the home office.support has been treating me like  a begger.with personal attacks
and with the group of buy anything fanboys we failed at keepin sonar in cheak with there money grabin update cycle.
so thanks PC and sonar for helpin distroy my dreams and my only sorce of income, just like any other company would these day.
sorry to the guys who hwre helpful and kind for postin this, as most here will just throw some digs and act  like there the better than us little guys ,
 i have been spendin my day takin down all the free add's iv had up for sonar.yes i code web pages too.
 cus why give them free press and support for a broken glichie product.
il be movin today and one last time tryed to get some help before the weekend , guess what.it didnt work.
 have a great day guys , and please next time remember where all not rich, and plugins and toys dont make you a good producer or musician,and charging for little parts of a bigger item to me is just like everyone else.its called greed.smell ya later forum.
 o ya il be banned by days end im shure. so in the end i can honestly say i hate Prochannel.or as they call it payed updates.
and to all who dont know the full producer expanded sonar . is just a nice market trick to get quaterly income, nothing more.
it way very well thought out, but still is a scam.scriped plugs are not somthing that should be sold by a daw builder it just gives them the chance to be cheep, and overcharge.and havin to defend workarounds for things that are broken is just lyin to yourself
 

well sonar has lost its credibility.

Sickvision


 ...the fact that us as consumers have been overcharged due to the new marketing strategy of cakewalk.
...a plug in they gave away for 10 buck. 

This price gouging HAS GOT TO STOP!!!!!!

I really do empathise with some of the frustration expressed and whatever else it seems to me like there is one unhappy customer.

I do however think that some of the content there is a bit hard to swallow like having a $1500 project riding on a $10 plug-in for example and having to close a studio down for this singular reason seems to indicate that the studio was on anything but stable ground in the first place.

I sincerly hope you have better luck moving forward and personally I myself would like to see a better balance WRT Cakewalk staff dealing with this kind of upset and frustration as readily as they do commenting on newly released modules.

I know there are types who like to moan for the sake of it but largely people complain because they feel they have reason to.

May you someday find DAW happiness.  But I suspect it will be a while as long as you feel the need to keep up with the Joneses.  Making music is supposed to bring joy, and if you can't do it with the tools you have then I'm afraid it is time to step away from it for a bit.  I don't understand the need to have the latest and greatest as I  found joy in making music long before I had my first DAW and was recording myself on a tape cassette deck so thers could hear it. 

May the joy of music continue even if our materialistic world has tainted it for you. 

While I'm very sorry to hear about these issues, this forum is not for ranting or for personal attacks. If you want support you can of course email or call us, or you can ask questions here. Thread locked. 

SP

slick.. come on lets talk !!

Slick I read your PM and will respect your rights, But Im in anytime your ready !!Im not going to tell you how many times I hit a brick wall in my 35 yrs, but I always found a way !!

It's so hard to take a post seriously when there are no paragraphs, or capital letters, isn't it? R

FastBikerBoy


What is the problem Sickvision? If you can post exactly what has gone wrong, someone may be able to help but it's a little difficult to work out from the original post.

+1

You've got the attention of a company representative who is willing to keep the thread open, and it sounds like you have some support from those who PM'd Seth on your behalf.  So the floor is yours.

It doesn't sound to me like you are going to get a better opportunity to be heard.

So why not go for it?  Sticking to the problems and not the personalities will likely help too.

Mebee he's waiting on my reply?


Looks like he got banned somewhere along the way.

All I can offer is a little advice on small studio management. First one must make sure there is back up recording equipment always maintained and ready to go.In the world of the big boys, a professional studio would never go down for more than a few minutes. A small studio should strive for the same. And the client should only be ever dimly aware that something you are responsible for is not working. They might as well do it them selves as to have to sit there and listen to you blame software???. They are hiring you because you are the technician/ engineer.It will be your fault if your equipment does not work. You won't get much sympathy from anyone by blaming software.It's never the place to put the blame and others using it will never get behind you fan boy or not. They will try and help you figure out what is wrong with your "hardware" however so please take the time to answer and reply and get this sorted out.

They will try and help you figure out what is wrong with your "hardware" however so please take the time to answer and reply and get this sorted out.

He well might but he's been banned, something to do with wanting to torch CW HQ for selling prochannel modules I think.

There's been plenty, including myself, that genuinely want to help fix his woes but he seems more hung up on the fact that PC modules aren't free than anything else.

 Eh.....can a person make another username? Just sayin.

This comes off like a poorly done alter ego. Please pass the popcorn

Not to rub salt in, but I simply do not believe that anyone's entire livelihood is dependent on the functionality of a single limiter plug in. It would be far easier to sympathise if the OP could refrain from treating us all like idiots by claiming outright nonsense like this. It can't be believed by a sensible person.

The title was changed by Seth from something more inflammatory.