I don't know about many of you but I am certainly impressed with Platinum and the recent stream of content that has been released thusfar!  The new DR really put this DAW over the top for me as well!   Thanks Cakewalk!
 
Latest song:
http://allenlind.com/bugsy/NEW/05%20Track%205.mp3

Hi. I totally agree with you. It is an exciting time And the people here are packed with knowledge, so there is always a helping hand if you need it

My S-PlatE // Win8.1 x64 system is a screamer!!

To be completely honest I don't really have much use for a lot of the content so far. Loops, eh, not so much. Impulses, MIGHT be useful some day. VocalSync and the DrumReplacer are quite nice, but somehow I feel that both tools would be obsolete if AudioSnap worked better, or at least they could have been enhancements of AudioSnap rather than new products.

That said, I'm giving this concept more time. There certainly are a lot of updates and fixes. There are also some new bugs each version. But on the whole I feel the product is moving forward. Still mostly annoyed at "having to update" every month. I know I don't have to but I keep hoping bugs will be fixed and stability will improve. So far each update seems to introduce its own issues even if old ones are fixed, and it gets a little tiresome to evaluate which ones are more significant every month.

I totally sympathise with the people with issues. I have been lucky enough to have it running smoothly. The errors I have had, have either had a possible workaround, or was pilot error (corrected by this fine group of people).

I may have missed something, but I recall only two notable issues that happened post-update. In one, the Control Bar custom buttons always reset to the right of the Control Bar instead of persisting in a user's custom position. This was fixed within a month, but in the meantime, a much more important feature regarding persistence after customization was added. As to the drum maps, several issues have been fixed and one issue occurred, which is solvable by a workaround for now. Again, I think the benefits of the fixes outweigh the issue, which will be fixed in short order anyway
 
There were also some elements of the virtual keyboard that needed improvement, but they didn't impact the program and were fixed within a month. It's doubtful that all of these would have been fixed within a month if they had been part of a yearly update, because there would have been a lot more fixes needed and who knows how they would have been prioritized.
 
Also, if you look back over some threads that found "issues" with an update, it turned out the issue had always been there. It simply hadn't been noticed before, so the user assumed it came along with the update.
 
The point that often seems to be missed is that SONAR now offers choice in the way people can use the software. Before, the choice was binary: You could upgrade once a year, or you could not upgrade once a year. Now you can upgrade when you want, download some content/no content/all content, learn something new every month or batch learning new features up quarterly or yearly or whatever, go back to any previous version, choose to pay in different ways, etc.
 
If someone chooses to upgrade the same way they did in the past, they can do so. But unlike the past, they don't have to, and they can customize their experience with the software to a greater degree than ever before. However, I think this flexibility has caused confusion because a) it doesn't have a precedent so people had a tendency to liken it superficially to things like the Adobe model, and b) I'm not sure it was explained all that well.

As someone who frequents the forum it's quite likely that I read more about bugs (imagined and real) than I encounter most of the time. But that doesn't change that every month there is an update, and every month I read about fixes and new acknowledged issues. I'm definitely not saying my Sonar is getting worse. As I said before, I feel the program as a whole is moving forward.

My main personal concern is just that I have evaluate on a monthly basis whether a given update will solve or break something important to me (I think Braintree had some AudioSnap or Melodyne issue for instance). That and the actual content doesn't mean much to me. Like I said, VocalSync and DrumReplacer are significant and welcome but I'm left with a feeling that the same time spent in improving/fixing AudioSnap would have been more useful (at least to me). For instance, we can already extract midi hits with AudioSnap, they just tend to hit off beat more often than on.

I really don't mean to sound negative towards the Bakers here, I have a lot of respect for their work. I'm just replying to the OP who's asking if we're equally impressed with the content. I'll see how I feel in a year, I'm still enjoying using Sonar :)

Up until Everett, I have been pretty happy. But after this update I'm getting more crashes when opening and closing plugin GUI's while the song is playing, especially with a section looped. I would roll back to the previous update, but I want to try Drum Replacer. This is no showstopper, just an annoyance for now.

Jimbo21
Up until Everett, I have been pretty happy. But after this update I'm getting more crashes when opening and closing plugin GUI's while the song is playing, especially with a section looped. I would roll back to the previous update, but I want to try Drum Replacer. This is no showstopper, just an annoyance for now.

Just curious...is this happening with 32-bit plug-ins?