Hilarious Drunk SONAR Review

Unfortunately, this ain't a joke. Before you complain about CW support, just remember that this moron represents a not-insignificant percentage of their calls...
 
(Warning: narrator has a limited vocabulary and relies heavily upon generic four-letter words. If you've never heard those words before, or have a toddler on your lap, skip this video.)
 

I'd give him about a "2" on the articulation scale.  I'm pretty sure he might have been my DI in boot camp.  Their vocabulary was pretty similar.

The cigarette is a dead giveaway...no pun intended.

I liked him. He's a bewildered middle-aged man railing against the inanities of modern life really. I can identify with that. I mean, a large lavish box, containing...a piece of paper with a code. That's straight out of Douglas Adams. 

Ham N Egz
Hes been upstairs under many different usernames but the  song is the same
 
and his little band of sockpuppets comments egging him on
 
I turned it off after 30 seconds, and 29 of those were f bombs
 
what an a**hat

I only made it 17!

"Maybe I'm just f***ing stupid..."
 
Agreed.
 
all the "getting started" stuff can be learned in 20 minutes by following the tutorials at the start of the manual... less time than that whiny, profanity laced derp fest.

JohanSebatianGremlin
Every member of Cakewalk staff should watch that video. Know why? Because like it or not, he's a customer and he brings to light some genuine issues new users have that would be EASY to fix. As my boss always says, the customer is NOT always right, but the customer is ALWAYS the customer. 

Sonar has a reputation problem. A big one. Videos like this floating around youtube ain't helping. 

It doesn't have a reputation problem, and in the end the success of cakewalk depends upon more than its customer service.  Did dungeons and dragons have good customer service?  The program is great, it sells itself.  If someone can't add 2+2 is the world supposed to stop and listen to his moronic rants?  Maybe if he weren't always drinking, he could spend a little time READING THE FECKIN MANUAL!

JohanSebatianGremlin

eph221
 
It doesn't have a reputation problem, 

I will respectfully disagree. Of the DAW users I know personally, I'm the guy they call for advice or tech support help. I've been using some version of Cakewalk/Sonar since I started. No one else I know uses it and all of them have switched platforms several times out of frustration. Protools, Logic, Cubase, you name it. That tried them all. But none of them ever considered trying Sonar. Why? In their eyes Sonar is a toy and real pros don't use it so they aren't willing to try it. I know I'm not the only person with this sort of experience. 

 
things change.  who cares what they think anyways.  I know some pros who reluctantly use pro tools because of it's early success and ubiquity.  On their private projects they use sonar!  Regardless, I suggest you start thinking for yourself, it'll benefit you in the long run.

Actually, it's people like him that give my IT consulting job long time security. 
 
I was helping a user over the phone and they said their computer wouldn't boot up but there was a message on the screen saying "Hit F1 to continue bootup" (obviously they have some kind of hardware error going on).  So I asked if they had tried hitting F1 and they said they did but nothing happened, then they went on to comment how the message looks weird since you actually have to hit two keys.  That's when I realized that they were clicking the "F" and then the "1" key instead of the "F1" function key.  

eph221
 
It doesn't have a reputation problem, . . .

don't get out much do you? cakewalk and sonar do very much so have a bad reputation, you don't have to look far to realize this. and no offense intended, but this forum has just as bad a reputation if not worse than cakewalk/sonar. as good as this forum is, and in a lot of ways it is, it's reputation for being a fanboy haven is well renowned, and the way people pile on to someone who has anything negative to say towards cakewalk/sonar is also well known (i am sure you have witnessed that just as i have), so much so to the point that there are names, terms used to describe it in the outside world, 'he has been sonared' 'smaked down sonar style' etc, (which by the way other members have pointed to in the past, it's not a fairytale, it's actually true), and they are not used in a endearing manner either ;) i am just stating the facts as i have found them on many forums around the net, it's just the way it is. i am a lifetime member, sonar isn't my first daw of choice, nor is it my second, i find others to be far better, far more productive and far less frustrating, so i can look at it objectively, a lot of people here seem to be emotionally tied to cakewalk/sonar, walk around with blinders on and can only see good, either not seeing or refusing to see any bad in cakewalk or sonar whatsoever. i'll never understand seemingly having an emotional attachment to a company or a piece of software, never. if something suits me better i am gone, i have no concern for the company or the software, it's what gets the job done for me. i know some people are kind of stuck with x or y software, spent a lot of time learning it and invested a bit of money in it, but for me switching daws is easy, so if something suits me better i'm gone, and the money side of things is of no concern to me, i feel sorry for those who are stuck with something for those reasons, sometimes they make other excuses for not leaving when really they would like to, . . . . . . . . . anyway.
 
the dude in the video had a couple of good points, on was that box with a code inside, i know cakewalk aren't the only one who does it, but who in there right mind would pay extra for an empty box, maybe a shipping fee, then wait the time it takes to ship the box to them, when they could have had the code almost instantly and for less money?, i'm sure a lot of people would just assume that there was physical media in the box or at least something else other than a piece of paper with the code on it, and what is with these companies that do that, are they really that hungry for money? do they really think people are that stupid, obviously they are and they do.

Well, it was a really nice *bleepin'* box...