I've been forced to learn Pro Tools and work on a Mac as of late and i don't see the advantages.  Maybe I'm old and stubborn to learn new things,  but the Pro Tools system is not any more stable and the Mac system is nothing i go ..."Whew look at that, look how easy that is".  Quite the opposite.  

Very satisfied with Sonar. Much more stable. I find myself spending much more time creating music. Except of course when I'm here going through the forums! 

Meh, I can't believe anyone really likes Sonar that much.   And no, I can't even write that with a straight face.  
 
2015 has really been a banner year for Sonar, and for Cakewalk as a company.  And things are just getting started!   As good as the past year has been for SPlat, just imagine this discussion next year...

I love Cakewalk, I love Platinum, yes I am Happy
Guillermo

I had a few problems with SPLAT as it's now called but Since the latest release..listen guys I was getting drop outs even when I went to another program and nothing was running...now I have left my computer on all day with Sonar in the back ground and me just playing addictive keys on my keyboard and not one solitary drop out. I have become more comfortable with it of late too...I remember Home studio 4 I also remember when Sonar was changing from Home studio 8 to X1 was it a right move yes indeed it was...even looking at studio one by presonus is not so much of a problem now cos I like working in Sonar...I have gone back to projects that were unfinished and working on them cos Platinum feel just right. Well done chappies! 

Beepster
The whole concept of Pro Tools turned me off even before I really got into recording.
 
Proprietary gear to use the program?

Funny story: When Brian Hardgroove got fed up with the Mac and Pro Tools simultaneously, I suggested he give SONAR and Windows a try. He was reluctant and very skeptical, but he knew I was digging it so he was at least open to the idea. Our first conversation:
 
"But I don't have a SONAR audio interface, I've never even seen a SONAR interface. Where do I buy one that works with SONAR?"
"They all do. The one you have now will work fine."
"But it's not a SONAR interface."
"Yes, it is. Any decent interface is a SONAR interface."
[pause as the reality of that statement sunk in]
"Wait a second. You mean I don't need to buy a new interface?"
"That's right."
 
Definitely got him started off on the right foot 
 
I haven't weighed in on this thread because it's obvious I'm happy with SONAR. But, I have to say I was not expecting the recent optimizations and they have really made a big difference. Everything is just so much smoother now. 

I do, I do.

Although I have not upgraded onto the Platinum platform, I was undergoing a writers block throughout this year. New software tools and workflow improvements are always a welcome to many of members here. The craft of producing a good tune is the patience of building solid foundation tracks then layer ideas to build on. Trust me from the early days of portastudios, the DAW has taken home recording to producing pretty good performances and mixes, once you figured out the tools that we have at our fingertips. 
 
So yeah I like the stability of Sonar and its newest features that seem to be enhancing the DAW to a musicians to get their creative juices flowing

I'm amazed at how much better I find SONAR Lexington Plat over X3 .Last night I had a very real to me "convincing eye and ear opener " .
Here's the story of what happened,
I've been working on a new tune on my Win 10 laptop .This tune is a demo / lets learn some of the new things and features in SPlat  . The tune started out as the CA amp template and what i did was use all the various amps for all my guitar tones . In addition to using that template to start my song  , I added a bunch of other tracks and instruments to the project ..
stuff like Session Drummer as a multi , myself playing a real Bass ,  Dim Pro and a couple of other things...
Since I hadn't put ADD drums on this computer yet ( Win 10 ) I decided to  copy over my song project over to my external HD and open the song up on my Win 8 computer ...that computer has everything I've bought in the past 2 years on it  ...
The main reason I wanted to use that machine was I figured I may find some better drum parts to my song VIA ADD drums and some of the drum packs I purchased that were installed ...
Here's where it got interesting ....
Instead of opening  Splat first I hunted down the project on the HD and when it was found I simply opened it ...
I wasn't thinking much of it and I was not concerned when the project defaulted to having X3 open it ...
A little box came up and said what it had to say about this project was created in a different version of SONAR and it may sound different ...
I go and hit play and there was not one thing effects and amp sim wise from Splat that had made the trip over to X3 ...my tune sounded like what a Movie Star would look like the day after partying all night long into the crack of dawn and not even having a drop of make up or any enhancements what so ever the following morning after
I was like WOW ...I guess I need all the help I can get ....SPat to the rescue ...lol
BTW I'm very happy I had this little  accident ...
Thankfully I survived my brief encounter with my song sounding like the soundtrack of a Moose gasping his last breath on the side of the road in his final moment of Road Kill ...
live and learn ...also I love not taking myself too seriously
that's my story on how much more I love Splat over X 3 and I'm sticking to it
 
Kenny
 
 

Love it.