• SONAR
  • Why doesn't Sonar have an iPad or Android app? (p.8)
2016/03/29 00:06:35
elegentdrum
I would love to see a simple transport app for I phone. I use windows 7x64 because of my sound card. so touch screens are not an option. This would allow one to be AFK and at an instrument to hit the record button easily.
I bet many are in the same boat for a variety of specifics.
 
My guess is they have programming staff for windows only. This would be a bell or whistle for passing hardware rather than reel sonic development.......nevermind. Or is it?
 
to comment on some other posts, Sonar is not very well supported by others for three reasons. #1 they are more advanced than the current standards for MIDI implementation, causing others headaches. #2, lack of stability. The sale and bugs over the last few years make Sonar viewed as unprofessional. #3 There is no "full fledged" solution to get knobs in front of a user like a 48 track mixer that integrates well with sonar and integrates with dedicated digital hardware mixing. the MCU lacks EQ, the V700 lacks channels, the Nucleus is hard to integrate and expensive. They are targeting the long run where everything is touch screen. The problem with that is: As soon as you have to read anything, the non-creative part of the brain has to be engaged. Buttons and sliders will never go away for the high end of things.
 
Edit after a few other posts. I should really ask, who has a good experience with a touch screen for the money, and what monitor/software did you use within windows 7? I have a V700, and control-1, so I will have the basics working fast, EQ, faders, transports. The larger banks of faders, and re-assignment of sends would be nice on a touch screen. Graphic editing of some EQ's and Compressor would be kinda nice too.
2016/03/29 00:19:46
John
elegentdrum
I would love to see a simple transport app for I phone. I use windows 7x64 because of my sound card. so touch screens are not an option. This would allow one to be AFK and at an instrument to hit the record button easily.
I bet many are in the same boat for a variety of specifics.
 
My guess is they have programming staff for windows only. This would be a bell or whistle for passing hardware rather than reel sonic development.......nevermind. Or is it?


I really am having a hard time understanding your post. CW writes apps for Apple. They also have a great understanding of Windows wouldn't it work to have them write an app for Windows too. Windows has been on tablets long before there was an ipad or Andriod. Also Windows 7 can use a touch screen. 
 
So I'm not sure what you're saying or why. 
2016/03/29 00:24:04
elegentdrum
I was not aware of the apple apps.
Who sells a Windows 7 touch screen that is not canned touch software?
2016/03/29 00:34:28
tenfoot
elegentdrum
I would love to see a simple transport app for I phone. 
 

I hate to bang on about it, but check out Lemur elegantdrum. It is available for ios, and the Sonar template for iPad is very easily adapted for iPhone. Just remove the controls you don't need and resize the interface in the editor program that comes with it.  I adapted it for my android phone for exactly the purpose you describe.
2016/03/29 01:45:03
John
elegentdrum
I was not aware of the apple apps.
Who sells a Windows 7 touch screen that is not canned touch software?


There is no such thing as a Windows 7 touch screen. They're just touch screens. Windows 7 supports touch screens. its built into the OS. 7 is not multi-touch as Windows 10 is. 
 
If you look under products CW sells various plugins for Apple as well as Windows.  
2016/03/29 06:05:00
azslow3
elegentdrum
I would love to see a simple transport app for I phone.
I use windows 7x64 because of my sound card. so touch screens are not an option. This would allow one to be AFK and at an instrument to hit the record button easily.
I bet many are in the same boat for a variety of specifics.

More then one exists.
 

to comment on some other posts, Sonar is not very well supported by others for three reasons. #1 they are more advanced than the current standards for MIDI implementation, causing others headaches.

I could not understand the meaning... If you mean current controllers are more "advanced" then standard MIDI, that is marketing fake.
 

#2, lack of stability. The sale and bugs over the last few years make Sonar viewed as unprofessional.

"Unprofessional" software is the one which can not produce "professional" results. That is rather subjective, but since Sonar can mix/output uncompressed 24/96 audio without distortion, it can produce professional result. No one claims "Mercedes" is "unprofessional" observing the number of trunks/buses on there repair stations. I know way more broken just after one year Apple notebooks then Dells (logical, later have more then 1 year guarantee), still no one view Apple as unprofessional.
 

#3 There is no "full fledged" solution to get knobs in front of a user like a 48 track mixer that integrates well with sonar and integrates with dedicated digital hardware mixing.

Can you give several examples for other DAWs?
 

the MCU lacks EQ

MCU can control (any) EQs in Sonar, but I am not sure why the number of channels is compared with FX controlling.
 
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