As an owner of both,I am sick of this thread also..lol.......X1 is the one daw to rule them all.
In nearly 15 years of using Cake,never once had a problem,or had to use Support(except for my S/Blaster acted up twice,ten years or more ago,driver problem,not Cake,but they did tell me how to fix Creatives problems..).
For me,Cakes all have a better gui,and they work.........
I am a bit long into getting used to X1's gui,but I AM very old.........sigh..............

and the envelope please for the oldest thread resurrection ....  And the winner is:

DonM


and the envelope please for the oldest thread resurrection ....  And the winner is:

Nobody!

The same pointless debate, is the Oak greater than the Sycamore?

The definitive answer: Yes and No.



A discussion on Theology anyone?

hah, Google served up a very necro thread from 2005...
 
 
I thought this sounded pretty cool in a PT12 description I ran across:
 
"Low Latency Recording Buffer
Another huge deal for PT users is the addition of a second audio buffer. The new Avid Audio Engine automatically manages playback buffer sizes during normal playback. The second you put an audio or instrument track into record or input the second buffer, which you set in the Playback Engine window, comes into play.
 
Your input signal buffer can be at 64 samples, while the rest of the mix, complete with posh limiters etc, can be using a buffer as big as 2048 samples. This means you can overdub into a session with up to 16,000 samples latency, and monitor your input through plug-ins with little or none."
 
 
Is there something like this in Sonar already?

When a product such as Protools is first-ish and gets traction like the Apple mobile devices did others can almost never unseat that rival who sits rightly or wrongly on the top of the heap no matter what they do.
 
Don't worry about it.
 

In case anyone wonders what he's talking about, here's the main document of recommended DAW practices. It was the result of work from the major DAW manufacturers (including two people from SONAR). Little of it is DAW-specific, and there's lots of good advice that applies to any DAW. For example it recommends saving virtual tracks as audio, rendering special effects plug-ins, etc.
 
Much of this document assumes that multiple people will be working on a master, and stresses the importance of labeling tracks and taking notes. However, I think this is applicable to individuals as well if you plan to come back to a project at some point in the future - e.g. you leave in tracks "just in case," and then can't remember which were the real tracks and which were the rejects. Fortunately SONAR has lots of options for taking notes on tracks, and it's a really good idea to take advantage of that.

Anderton
In case anyone wonders what he's talking about, here's the main document of recommended DAW practices. It was the result of work from the major DAW manufacturers (including two people from SONAR). Little of it is DAW-specific, and there's lots of good advice that applies to any DAW. For example it recommends saving virtual tracks as audio, rendering special effects plug-ins, etc.
 
Much of this document assumes that multiple people will be working on a master, and stresses the importance of labeling tracks and taking notes. However, I think this is applicable to individuals as well if you plan to come back to a project at some point in the future - e.g. you leave in tracks "just in case," and then can't remember which were the real tracks and which were the rejects. Fortunately SONAR has lots of options for taking notes on tracks, and it's a really good idea to take advantage of that.

I can't believe I've never seen this before ... thanks for posting the link

BobF
 
I can't believe I've never seen this before ... thanks for posting the link

There's also a shorter, "greatest hits" version.
 
 

Anderton
In case anyone wonders what he's talking about, here's the main document of recommended DAW practices. It was the result of work from the major DAW manufacturers (including two people from SONAR).

Actually, three people... yours truly was part of that team as well.
 
Scott

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Nice Thanks for sharing. Had not seen it before.