At the risk of being accused of plagiarizing recent threads OR worse,being sued for thread copyright (LOL) ,
I do feel it might be timely & approriate to think about what
'IT' is that:
1. Has you reading this thread, along with all the other member threads & being a part of this forum.
2. Makes you so passionate (ie: Perhaps) about the future of Cakewalk / Sonar / The Cakewalk Team (Remaining - cheers Guys) / and now , our most
fortunate and welcome association with Meng , his Bandlab team and Bandlab.
3. Gives Cakewalk / Cakewalk SONAR / that obvious edge , that the other players don't have.
In other words,with all of the critical , often impassioned discussion going on at the moment , a fair balance would be to
include some positivity ( YES.... POSITIVITY ) which focuses on the 'Quality of the cheese rather than the excruciating disappointment at the discovery of random holes ' and how they should be plugged up :(
Also , I am fearful that Meng ( and God Bless You Meng :) ) may just be starting to have niggling,
second thoughts ..... (eg :"OMG..........What have I done" !!!! ) .....LOL
All Jokes aside, I'll kick off with a post I lodged on another thread earlier today (OR Overnight to many of you Sonorites).
If you wish to express the positives to Meng and others, that would be nice........and refreshing.
*** Perspective -
This thread comment was In Support of Retaining current MIDI capabilities. For myself , I am a duo performer who is heavily into editing midi to suit our particular requirements and sound preferences.
When Live, we use a Roland SD50 sound module and VanBasco as a lightweigt Lyrics Prompt. Has worked magnificently for years..and Sonar's timely , seamless load
from windows explorer with a double click,and quick running of the MIDI files is why we prefer SONAR.
SONAR has the ability to make edits and save without losing our preferred GS Format and without losing our mostly, personally loaded lyrics (ie: per Serenade )
I tried a plethera of other DAWs over the past months.....even purchased a couple ( largely under sufferance).
To me.....as far as my quick editing needs........the others appeared clunky or too complicated ....and OH Boy...I missed SYSX & Event List, bigtime as it was
absent or significantly diminished in many of them.
Many trial DAWS seemed,shall we say...not as MIDI friendly. Admittedly my time with them was limited - but enough to assess our critical needs.
BUT that's for my use..............But let's face it..... it really is 'Horses for Courses'.
I suggest Sonar has a very wide appeal ......let's not set adrift what is possibly a huge MIDI user base.
** Additionally,I think Cakewalk SONAR has a 'Top Of The Range' GUI.
Unlike a multitude of other players........SONAR respects the varying needs of those with a vision impairment.
(ie:Sharper / larger text and incremental visual contrast..........& let's not forget the immense, visual / Contrast flexibility
afforded by the'Theme Editor' in this regard).
SONAR also 'slipstreams' in regards to multiple monitors.
( eg:Try multiple monitors on Pro Tools for example ......(They have no idea).....oh bugger .......Just reminded me.....I'm locked into
a bloody 12 month contract with these guys :( )
Anywho !!!ANYONE ????