Anderton

John T
Dying to see the Drum Replacer thing. If it's even half as well designed as VocalSync, it'll be an utter joy.

I'm not sure, but I think the Drum Replacer takes advantage of ARA. Maybe someone from Cakewalk could confirm or deny.

...would be smart if it did...

Bill Jackson [Cakewalk]

Anderton

John T
Dying to see the Drum Replacer thing. If it's even half as well designed as VocalSync, it'll be an utter joy.

I'm not sure, but I think the Drum Replacer takes advantage of ARA. Maybe someone from Cakewalk could confirm or deny.

...would be smart if it did...

nicely dodged ;-)

I too have had an easy time moving on to Sonar Platinum. I broke down and did install everything. At first I only installed the things I knew I didn't have. But then I got tired of seeing those red lights. So now everything is green. 
 
Command Center is a great way to install but it does need some more options. Too many users have non default installs and need some leeway in where things are installed. That was one nice thing about the old install process was the detail and options that one had. 
 
 Perhaps an advanced option giving back those abilities would be in the next CC update. 
 
As to Sonar Platinum, it is fabulous! Solid and very stable. People have already talked about all the great new features so I wont comment except to say they are right. I don't know what new feature I like the most but the custom control bar module ranks high. 
 
All in all a very nice experience. One huge benefit of the new CC is that you don't have to install everything on the first day.  I like the idea of it checking for updates each time it starts.
 
 
Now where is that Sonar Platinum user manual? 
 

Well my first opinions were positive. Then it kept crashing, I was getting pretty angry about it....


Then I found out it was my hardware that needed tweaking and the OS....
Now I must remember this because exactly the same thing happened when X3 came out.
 
Very happy camper right now...

While we're on the subject of what to install (not: Rapture/Dimension Pro), I didn't install the loops either since it was my "assumption" nothing new was added. Does anyone know if that assumption is correct?

Yep. Same as it always is.

After returning to Sonar after a few years I was full of great expectations and hopes. After only a few hours in Platinum I am finding that simple operations on other daws appear to be more complicated than I suspected in Sonar. Only 1 crash but sorry to say I have been years without any.
 
Not moaning, not trolling but honestly not impressed up to now. Having said that a day is not enough time to either get used to a new DAW or indeed review it. So I go forward hoping that I can grow to love it but also extremely glad I chose the monthly payment rather than pay the full amount as at least I can opt out with very little cost if after a month I am not convinced.

John T
Anyway, absolutely not a hiccup, stutter, crash, missing plug in or anything.

This is going to sound weird, but...when I read that, all of a sudden I realized that I haven't had any crashes or stutters or issues either. I just didn't think about it.
 
The current project I'm working on was a live recording at CES, three hours' worth of material spread over 3 days where I'm culling the best performances. So the project is managing about 6GB of material, and some of the edits are pretty detailed to replace tech glitches from one night with a good section from a different night.
 
I'm not using any virtual instruments, and only 2-3 plug-ins per track along with ProChannel modules; there are only about 10 tracks where I shuffle the data around, so one level the project isn't that intense. However, I haven't worked with that much data in a project before.
 
I'm working on a song concurrently that has about 24 tracks, tons of plug-ins, multiple virtual instruments, and quite a bit of Melodyne processing and it's also been perfect. But I've only put in about 3 hours on that since getting Platinum. The other one is probably about 15-20 hours.
 
I'm sure I'll figure out some way to crash SONAR, but so far so good.

I had a couple of "white outs" on the 1st couple of tests with Platinum,  but none since I first got started.  I always feel software and hardware and operator have to get to know each other a little.
 
I also picked up Z3ta +2 and have to say that is one great softsynth.  I should have upgraded that long ago.

I already have the full standalone AD2 and all ADpaks except 4 of them.. should I install the AD2 that came with Platinum to collect 3 more ADpaks? Will this screw up my current installation?