• SONAR
  • Goodbye Sonar, I've had enough. (p.11)
2017/02/21 14:24:47
abacab
Ever since I installed an SSD for my Windows, Programs, Sonar, and all my VSTs, everything is smooth and snappy now :-)
 
Except loading a bunch of sample laden instruments with sample libraries on my spinning drive ... but that is to be expected.  Once the samples are in RAM, all is good again ...
2017/02/21 16:08:14
Kev999
SilverBlueMedallion
...it seems like Sonar is built off some really old code.  I feel the product could use a major overhaul...
...I realize this is only a GUI based complaint...

 
There was a radical overhaul of the GUI between Sonar 8.5 and X1.
2017/02/21 16:09:27
AdamGrossmanLG
Kev999
SilverBlueMedallion
...it seems like Sonar is built off some really old code.  I feel the product could use a major overhaul...
...I realize this is only a GUI based complaint...

 
There was a radical overhaul of the GUI between Sonar 8.5 and X1.




I am talking about the GUI in 2017.01 
 
LOL
2017/02/21 16:23:10
BRainbow
Obviously, +1 for SSD's as the quickest way to make everything sing in double time.  Over the past few months I have just splurged on 3 SSD's for my Win10 OS, Projects and Samples drives.  I've never been happier.  Sonar opens and scans plugins quickly, GUI is very responsive and no need to walk away waiting for a file with multiple audio tracks and huge EW and NI samples to load.
2017/02/21 16:26:35
AdamGrossmanLG
compare it to say Studio One's GUI... its still night and day, even when using SSD.  It's got to do with the code used for the GUI.
2017/02/21 16:30:19
telecharge
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
2017/02/21 16:38:00
Pragi
SilverBlueMedallion
DISCLAIMER:  this may just be my opinion and I might be wrong about this:
 
but it seems like Sonar is built off some really old code.  I feel the product could use a major overhaul.  Load up Studio One or Reason and you will notice just the FEEL of it.. the software is fast and smooth.  It feels like Sonar is very module-based, and each individual piece needs its own load time.  It feels sluggish and archaic.
 
I realize this is only a GUI based complaint, but I feel it effects overall usability. 


This is a question that often arrises in comparison discussions :
Is the Sonar source code really that old ?
If so (knowing that this is not a one week job)
why the bakers are not writing a new code ?
 
2017/02/21 16:40:00
auto_da_fe
I have had enough as well....however Sonar has nothing to do with it.
 
In fact Sonar is a rare shining light in an otherwise bleak and heavy heckscape. 
 
JR
2017/02/21 16:50:49
jpetersen
Whatever the bakers do, Sonar will always look "full".
Compare the Studio One manual to Sonar's.
All that functionality has to be put someplace.
 
2017/02/21 17:40:51
Leee
As many have pointed out already, this is a user to user forum, with special guest appearances by actual Cakewalk programmers (and other paid professionals who do work on Sonar), and that a "goodbye Sonar" rant is best sent to the programmers, customer service, or tech support, for optimum usefulness.  Complaining to users who already use and enjoy Sonar will only solicit snide comments and (from the "good" people) helpful hints in using Sonar that you may not have thought of.

But generally speaking, when I see someone taking this much time and effort to announce a "software usage suicide", I would ask two things:  1 - Could your negative feelings towards this product cause you to harm yourself or others? and 2 - If so, have you sought out professional counseling to prevent you from harming yourself or others. 

If the problem has not reached that level of emotional turmoil in your life, and is actually (as another poster mentioned) more akin to a "paper or plastic" type of decision, then I would say these types of decisions should be left up to you, to follow your heart and decide what's best.   Otherwise it would be like me standing in a supermarket checkout line, holding up the people behind me, and verbally expressing my personal views on the pros and cons of using either paper or plastic bags to carry my groceries.  While some people in that line may be interested in my views of ecology, environmental concerns, and job retention for lumberjacks and paper mill workers, most people in line would mostly get impatient and angry because they just want to get checked out and get their ice cream home and in their freezer before it melts!

But seriously folks, if the OP would have rephrased the post into a question, "Can Sonar do these things that FL Studios does?"  It would have gone a lot further and been more accepted as a true request in a decision making process, that you have already seemed decided on.
 
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