Thanks for taking part in the poll. Over 300 people have participated. I am posting the result in a new thread as it would get lost in the poll thread!
 
Votes were limited to one per person probably using cookies and as you will see in the results it may be that a Studio One fanboy duped the results just a tad. Either that or Studio One is incredibly popular in the Pacific rim as most of the S1 votes came in around the time people around the Pacific were coming online - over just a few days! Even accounting for some cheating, the results are pretty clear.
 
Results
 
Harrison Mixbus     - 0
Other                    - 1
FLStudio                - 1
Ableton                  - 1
Bitwig                    - 2
Digital Performer    - 2
Mixcraft                 - 3
Samplitude            - 20
Reaper                  - 22
Staying with Sonar - 23
Cubase                  - 33
Studio One            - 191 (WTF)
 
In the first hours of the poll Cubase and Studio One were pretty level pegged with one leading then the other. Studio One did start to pull ahead though (before the Pacific rim came online). So cheating or not, Studio One is the most popular choice for the Sonar afterlife. That's not a big surprise especially as they were the first to drop a deal here, as well as the deal that was currently going on. It could indicate that many people jumped ship right at the start before the other deals emerged.
 
I guess it isn't that surprising that "staying with Sonar" picked up a good percentage of votes. Mixcraft doesn't seem to have done too well considering their offer and interaction on these forums.
 
I wonder how representative this is of the high-end DAW market in general. It looks pretty much how I would expect the current DAW market to look - perhaps with the exception of S1's apparent monopoly in this poll. You will notice I actually forgot to put Pro Fools on the list - that may account for the 1 vote for "other" :)
 
Thanks all for taking part and if someone was busily upvoting S1 over a few days, I hope they found it was time well spent! :)
 
P.S. I was waiting for people to stop taking part in the poll before I published the results, but they didn't stop. I'll leave the poll going for now partly because I don't know how to stop the bloody thing!

I made the top 3!

So your conclusion is the results are artificial and incorrect.... An internet poll....Realllly?

Whether or not that is the case what difference does it reallly make?

I kinda wondered why in your last thread you had to wait for others to vote in this unscientific, irrelevant and unnecessary experiment to release the results. Was it to offset a questionible Conclusion or to eschew the results to one more favorable to your anticipation?

Don't answer those qiestions as they are more rhetorical then inquiry
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Just realise it is what is it is, whether unexpected or not it's the Interwebs not gallup.

I bought into a lot of the programs on the list to give them a fair chance. At first I had lots of problems with Studio One, and decided against it. But there was so much support for it, I decided to give it another chance and tried working with it some more. I couldn't resist the great price they offered at JRR, so I went for it. Glad I did. The full version work much better than the demo or Artist version. After I saw the Faderport 8 I knew I wanted a complete Studio One system. So yes I guess I am a fanboy of Studio One, but I only voted for it once. No stuffing the ballot box here. The system has been working excellent for me. That's why I'm sticking with it.

Why the WTF for Studio One?

With regard to the Notion program, it looks like a nice program but I have had problems with it crashing on me....I think it still needs some work.
 

CTStump
So your conclusion is the results are artificial and incorrect.... An internet poll....Realllly?

Whether or not that is the case what difference does it reallly make?

I kinda wondered why in your last thread you had to wait for others to vote in this unscientific, irrelevant and unnecessary experiment to release the results. Was it to offset a questionible Conclusion or to eschew the results to one more favorable to your anticipation?

Don't answer those qiestions as they are more rhetorical then inquiry
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Just realise it is what is it is, whether unexpected or not it's the Interwebs not gallup.

Um, I don't see it as a competition. I don't have any preference to how people vote. The other day I decided to set 300 as the cutoff point. It has to end somewhere and if I ended it next week do you think the results would be much different? Happy new year!

BobF
Why the WTF for Studio One?

Because it's so far ahead in the poll and as I said, I suspect there may have been a bit of rigging going on because of a strange pattern that emerged for a few days. Even accounting for that, S1 still comes out as the most popular choice, but the margin looks WTF huge.

Yet you accuse Studio One of illegitimate success to explain the numbers with (WTF).

I also know that your preference was not what polled high hence my assumption in my previous reply.

Oh and Happy New Year to you and all Sonarites, Studio One adopters and any other DAW User's out there.

CTStump
Yet you accuse Studio One of illegitimate success to explain the numbers with (WTF).

I also know that your preference was not what polled high hence my assumption in my previous reply.

Oh and Happy New Year to you and all Sonarites, Studio One adopters and any other DAW User's out there.

I really don't get your point. I purchased Studio One Pro in the crossgrade deal. I have a license. I have nothing against Presonus. Studio One came out on top as I have explained. However, I do not believe they came out on top with the margin that the poll shows and I will explain why: during the poll, as you would expect, the view counter for the poll forum thread was always higher than the number of participants in the poll, because more people read the thread or re-read the thread than participated in the poll. After the first day or two, at about 3am (GMT) every morning there would be a ridiculous number of votes suddenly, all for S1 in the space of a couple of hours. This pattern happened at the same time every day for a few days. Normally the votes would be scattered and there was a fairly consistent pattern (I could see the pattern as I had a visual representation of the poll in the poll admin section), but during these periods there would be a big list of S1 votes only. Two things made me suspicious of this, 1) Most voters used their forum handles or an anonymous name - these S1 voters during these times used first and last names and in some cases middle initials too which looks like a random name generator script (which I use for testing databases) e.g. Margarette J. Smith. 2) During these periods which saw loads of S1 votes over a very short period of time, the view counter on the forum thread didn't increase any more than usual and would work out at less than the number of votes cast during that period. That thread was the only place the poll link was posted, so you can draw your own conclusions!
 
Look, I set up a poll for sh*ts and giggles. I said I would post the results. I did post the results. You can take them or leave them. I also posted my comments on those results as I am sure many others will do. Are you accusing me of rigging the results or of being unsportsmanlike in the face of S1 winning despite what seems to be a huge number of fake votes - and despite my having purchased an S1 license? I could have voted for several of the options on the poll as I have at least 6 of the DAWs on there - Sonar, MixBus, Studio One, Samplitude, FLStudio, and Bitwig. I saw it as a poll, but you seem to see it as a horse race. Please explain why you are digging at me for posting a poll?