Jesse G

Beepster
I absolutely freaking despise it. Worst program EVAR!
 
Therefore I'm going to hang out here day in and day out to tell you all how much it sucks and how wrong you all are for liking it.
 
Kay?

 

LOL,  this is sooo Funny!    Beepster must have had a great Christmas.

My thought exactly!!
 
Very happy camper here, the sum total of what we've received in the last 12 months has been nothing less than phenomenal!
And acquiring it in monthly, bit sized chunks has certainly made the learning curve a LOT less steep than getting it all in one go.
 
Looking forward to what 2016 has in store for us

Sonar is fast and stable, comes with a vast gamut of useful tools. I wonder what's not to like about Sonar...
Count me in.

bliss baby here... Never imagined being able to do what we can do...
 

To record and mix with Splat is  the most easy and
professional experience I have ever had
in recording.
Kudos ,bakers
 

My cat LOVES sonar (and so do I)!

Hi. I am in the happy camper section.
It is very stable, and intuitive (on my end) even if it might be daunting on someone new to SONAR.
This is the stuff of dreams.. Who knew a few years back..?
All the best.

I love Sonar or SPLAT as it is referred too lately.
I totally hate the fact I have less and less time to use it.
Can't the bakers add a time shift function where we can stop the time clock so we have more time to record Or maybe a time travel function so we can go back to when we had time LOL!
 

In the grander scheme of things, I'm happy with Sonar Plat. I'm especially happy with the stability as I will trade stability for "new features" any day.
 
I primarily write orchestral music, and thus do feel that e.g. Cubase has a better feature set (at least "on paper"). However, in view of the "grass is greener on the other side", and Cakewalks very aggressive development schedule, it most definitely seems worthwhile giving Sonar time to mature.
 
Allan
 

I'm happy with SONAR, and especially happy with the direction it's taken in the last year.
 
But I'm not as happy as I'd like to be. I still experience too many audio dropouts on modest projects, especially considering the power of my system. I still get project files that seem to develop a curse of one kind or another; crashes, dropouts, distorted sound, what have you, that can only be fixed (as far as I can tell) by rebuilding the project in another file. This is not by any means a constant set of problems, but they are too frequent for my complete satisfaction.
 
Now I understand very well that it's not reasonable to call this a dissatisfaction with SONAR. It's very clear that DAW performance is a complex phenomenon involving not only the DAW software but my interface, OS, configuration, ALL my hardware, any other software that may be running with or without my knowledge, etc, etc.
 
I didn't start doing this yesterday. More like 25 years ago, not counting pre-computer recording technology. I've built a dozen or more PCs, and researched hardware and setup for audio extensively, not to mention making a sizeable investment in good quality hardware. So if someone tells me increase the audio buffers to reduce ticks or disable my network card, I don't mind at all - always grateful for any attempt to help - but I'm not learning something new.
 
And still weird glitches happen, most of the time completely unresponsive to the standard fixes. And though I may catch flak for this, the bottom line is that this doesn't happen when I run Excel, or PhotoShop, or CyberDirector (OK, Vegas yes...).
 
Forgive the long vent. I love SONAR, and I'm not changing DAWs. For one thing, I've been using it and its predecessors since 1988, for another I have no reason to think there's anything better. But I hope for a day when the probability of the program running and performing exactly as expected is similar to most other software on my computer.
 
 

I am happy with Sonar, but it's the only DAW I've ever used so I can't compare and contrast.
 
I started with X1 Studio, then moved up to X1-X3 Producer and SPlat.