How old do you need to be to vote?

Democracy is the worse form of government except all the others have been tried-Winston Churchill.
Each to their own, but honestly Sonar as a composition tool and an extension of a digital musical instrument still leaves all the other DAW's in the dust.  And lets not get started on how it really is the best emulation of a "real" mixing console.  A few more features such as Varispeed, network performance and some real-time time stretching tool would really push it into another realm.  Wouldn't mind a DJ function either. 
 
I've been doing some hard-core research lately into future possibilities regarding possible future music ideas performance and composition.  We def need real-time time stretching and DJ functionality.  Again it's all about creating a seamless digital instrument, rather than a digital audio workstation, which as  a concept is rather old, perhaps a digital audio instrument.  Particular as digital audio is only a small fraction of musical possibilities these days.
 
Ben     

konradh
I am curious about something, however.  Surely someone in the industry knows the ranking of the various DAWs by units sold and by dollars in sales.  I wonder why we never see those numbers.

There's a monthly sales report called MI Salestrak but it's not cheap and the results are copyrighted. Furthermore, I don't believe it takes digital downloads into account, which is becoming an ever-larger part of the business. As most companies are privately-held and don't need to release figures, they don't.

Polls tell us very little really. It's a small minority of DAW users who even visit forums and such. So a poll is contaminated from the get go. Like a .5% voter turnout. 
I think Wave Lab is the best Audio software I have ever used. I have no clue how many other people use it and it wouldn't change my opinion. 

I voted for Sonar since I could find edittrack platinum.  

Got my vote!!
 
There's also a poll running over on musicradar.com
 http://www.musicradar.com...the-world-today-606935
Ken

and it should ask how many folk use multiple daws or rewire ;-)
 
different things I like about all 3 things I use.. but there ya go..
 
logic = you buy a mac for that, so of course it's gonna score highly.. would there be so many mac sales if emagic was still on pc ? , doubt it ;-)
 

I always find these polls skewed being that the only people who vote are the ones who know about them and the only ones who know about them are the ones who post about them in public groups such as this. They are in no way, shape or form a reliable source of information.