Full-time musician (since studying jazz piano at university 20 years ago or so), but only part of that is studio-related, and I use a bunch of other tools although Sonar is the main platform and the only DAW per se. Most of my work is performing, I play in various theatre, musical theatre and circus shows in Berlin and around Germany. Frequently that involves doing arrangements and sometimes producing backing tracks, so that's some of the studio work. The rest is soundtrack work and composition, which sometimes starts in the 'hobby' zone in that it doesn't pay me much or at all up front, but often ends up becoming part of something that does later on...

Sylvan
2. Part Time Pro.
 
I work in IT mostly to keep my health insurance benefits for my family. I supplement the family income working as an audio engineer using SONAR.
I always have paying clients of one sort or another. Generally I net between $500 - $2,000 a month from SONAR related work. Although for July 2015, I am lined up with $4,450 worth of work. But I will be completely buried and will have no life to speak of outside the studio...ha ha ha. I guess that's what I wanted, well, I got it. At least for July, then back to the normal load. 

That's awesome!  Do you have a complete studio setup (separate control booth, room for miking a drum kit, etc.) or is it a single room project studio?  I'd love to start building up a client list and work on the cheap, but at this time it would be tough to accommodate anything other than solo singer/songwriters since I don't have the gear or space to accommodate a full band, etc.  I do my own "full band" recordings, but aside from vocals it's all in the box (Addictive Drums 2, Eleven Rack for my guitars, EWQL Hollywood suite, Pianoteq for my keyboard, etc.).

Also in regular retirement, having my first paycheck in july from that.
 
Prepared the last five years for this - and going for fulltime
- songwriting having artists that like the songs record them
- making good enough demos to have them sold as an entity if learning that craft enough
 
Many songwriters sell the stems for the song as well, or full projects.
 
But doing it mostly for the joy of music - the most mysterious and exiting thing - next to life itself.
 
 

Oh and did I mention that I am a professional forum poster?

Career in corrections by day, father of 4 by night, and Sonar hobbyist by dusk (and on weekends when lucky).  Once upon a time I considered myself a fulltime musician, but the most I ever got paid was in free booze after a show.  Though, I recently did the math on album sales made from my third album release in 2007 and I am proud to say that I've accrued a grand total of 14 dollars and 12 cents!  I'm not sure what it takes for an album to go platinum, but I have to be getting close.... 

Grizzlylip
Career in corrections by day, father of 4 by night, and Sonar hobbyist by dusk (and on weekends when lucky).  Once upon a time I considered myself a fulltime musician, but the most I ever got paid was in free booze after a show.  Though, I recently did the math on album sales made from my third album release in 2007 and I am proud to say that I've accrued a grand total of 14 dollars and 12 cents!  I'm not sure what it takes for an album to go platinum, but I have to be getting close.... 

Ha!  My former band's album made about $23 on iTunes, so I'm much closer to going platinum than you are! :)

streckfus

Grizzlylip
Career in corrections by day, father of 4 by night, and Sonar hobbyist by dusk (and on weekends when lucky).  Once upon a time I considered myself a fulltime musician, but the most I ever got paid was in free booze after a show.  Though, I recently did the math on album sales made from my third album release in 2007 and I am proud to say that I've accrued a grand total of 14 dollars and 12 cents!  I'm not sure what it takes for an album to go platinum, but I have to be getting close.... 

Ha!  My former band's album made about $23 on iTunes, so I'm much closer to going platinum than you are! :)

Way to burst my bubble!  By the way, I am sitting in Minneapolis as I type (not far from loring park). Location location!  I think we were both victims of poor demographics.   

Hobbyist but have used SONAR to record some voiceover material as paid work (the exciting arena of maths test for children :-)).

Grizzlylip

streckfus

Grizzlylip
Career in corrections by day, father of 4 by night, and Sonar hobbyist by dusk (and on weekends when lucky).  Once upon a time I considered myself a fulltime musician, but the most I ever got paid was in free booze after a show.  Though, I recently did the math on album sales made from my third album release in 2007 and I am proud to say that I've accrued a grand total of 14 dollars and 12 cents!  I'm not sure what it takes for an album to go platinum, but I have to be getting close.... 

Ha!  My former band's album made about $23 on iTunes, so I'm much closer to going platinum than you are! :)

Way to burst my bubble!  By the way, I am sitting in Minneapolis as I type (not far from loring park). Location location!  I think we were both victims of poor demographics.   

My next album might go platinum. So I'm not releasing it, because it also might not go platinum.
 
I am a former full-time pro Hollywood studio owner/struggling musician. I have promoted myself to complete amateur, doing exactly the music I freakin feel like doing.

Also, Minneapolis is where it's at.

Larry Jones

Grizzlylip

streckfus

Grizzlylip
Career in corrections by day, father of 4 by night, and Sonar hobbyist by dusk (and on weekends when lucky).  Once upon a time I considered myself a fulltime musician, but the most I ever got paid was in free booze after a show.  Though, I recently did the math on album sales made from my third album release in 2007 and I am proud to say that I've accrued a grand total of 14 dollars and 12 cents!  I'm not sure what it takes for an album to go platinum, but I have to be getting close.... 

Ha!  My former band's album made about $23 on iTunes, so I'm much closer to going platinum than you are! :)

Way to burst my bubble!  By the way, I am sitting in Minneapolis as I type (not far from loring park). Location location!  I think we were both victims of poor demographics.   

My next album might go platinum. So I'm not releasing it, because it also might not go platinum.
 
I am a former full-time pro Hollywood studio owner/struggling musician. I have promoted myself to complete amateur, doing exactly the music I freakin feel like doing.

Also, Minneapolis is where it's at.

You and I are going to get along just fine.