fwrend
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My Sonar History
May be Coffee House fodder but I had to dig out my Sonar X2 discs to get the Roland R-Mix plug back and thought I'd take a quick pic of my Sonar journey lol - I started with Cakewalk back in the 3.5 floppy days but don't have those any longer (I've seen some of you do!). X3 Producer is still in the shrink wrapped box. I didn't order the Studio Instruments but Cake threw that in on one of the orders. Been a good run. EDIT: just to thank you all for your story and to add that my first encounter was when my wife and I recorded in OKC back in the early '90s when the engineer used Cakewalk for DOS to sequence a few tracks that sounded great! I was impressed enough to jump on the CW bandwagon. 
post edited by fwrend - 2018/06/08 15:56:54
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/06 13:36:36
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sonar xl was my first licensed version 
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/06 19:42:00
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fwrend
May be Coffee House fodder but I had to dig out my Sonar X2 discs to get the Roland R-Mix plug back and thought I'd take a quick pic of my Sonar journey lol - I started with Cakewalk back in the 3.5 floppy days but don't have those any longer (I've seen some of you do!). X3 Producer is still in the shrink wrapped box.
Sonar 4 was my fav of those early versions
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/06 20:20:12
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i started back in 2004,using home-studio-2004
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/06 22:15:48
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Cakewalk Apprentice (1993!) - some Cakewalk Pro version - SONAR 2.0 XL - SONAR X3 Studio - CbB
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chris.r
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/07 02:15:45
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Cakewalk Pro Audio nostalgia (pre Sonar!)... didn't own any but had the opportunity to lay down my hands on it couple times in late 90'ties and I liked it... multitrack support in PRV was groundbreaking!
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Geo524
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/07 11:11:46
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Sonar HS 6XL, 7, Sonar 8 Studio, Sonar 8.5 Producer, Sonar X1-X3, Sonar Platinum-CbB.
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/07 12:09:57
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Sonar 7, where it started for me
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Re: My Sonar History
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/07 15:44:41
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Hi. I started on Pro Audio 9 (97 or 98, I believe).. Then i Had SONAR 2 XL and 4 Producer, before jumping up to SONAR X3 which was quite a jump  Went for Platinum when it came out, and now use Cakewalk by Bandlab. All the best.
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/08 11:34:17
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paulo
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/08 12:50:09
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My first ever Cakewalk software came on an Aerosmith CD that had some version of Cakewalk software included for you to install on your pc (win 98 IIRC) so that you could "remix" it.. Can't remember which one it was and no idea what became of it. I suspect that somebody "borrowed"it at some point. Obviously it was pretty limited in terms of what you could actually do, but that was the first time I ever installed Cakewalk software onto a pc.
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davdud101
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/08 13:29:27
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Holy moly, there's some serious history here!!!! Really cool to read about.
I only started maybe in 2010 or '11 on Music Creator (2003?) which I initially only bought because it was pretty cheap came with a USB/MIDI cable that I needed for another notation software.
Little did I know I was in it for the long haul.
From there I moved up to X2 which was to be honest, pretty terrible in terms of stability (as we all know) - VERY frequent crashes. Sometime down the road came X3 producer which I'm using today.
Haven't made the full switch to CW by BandLab, but I've got it installed and have opened the software once.
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bapu
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/08 13:58:10
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I started on PA4 and purchased all versions except SONAR2.
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StepD
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/09 03:38:30
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I started with Voyetra for DOS in '92, then later that year upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Cakewalk 1.0 for Windows. One 3.5 inch floppy I think. It's probably still sitting in a drawer somewhere.
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olive2sing
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/09 18:52:46
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I think it was 96, and PA5.
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/09 23:51:38
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I started in the late 90's with Cakewalk Home Studio 6. Progressed only as far as Sonar 8.5, then went to Reaper for awhile when they put in a staff view. Came back to 8.5 when the bad news hit; I wanted to make sure I still had a good working version of sonar going forward, in case worst case scenario of no buyer of Cakewalk. Then of course Bandlab appears out of nowhere to save the day. Happily using the second updated version. Waiting for a better Assistant App to upgrade again.
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noynekker
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/10 00:19:06
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I'm currently looking at a Cakewalk 4.OE floppy disc, it sits on my fireplace mantle (with many other relics)
The copyright says Greg Hendershott, 1987 - 90
Running on a 286 PC, Cakewalk drove my Tascam 688 Midistudio, an 8 track cassette player that could sync up to the PC . . . using a sync track . . . enabling me to record 7 tracks if audio, and sync it with an Opcode midi interface, which drove a few hardware synthesizers. So high tech for the 90's.
Crude by today's standards . . . but this thread got me thinking just how far audio recording technology has come.
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kennywtelejazz
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/10 00:39:56
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Back in the day , when it was considered to be a 2 man operation to do a proper midi sequence , I had the good fortune of getting my start with Cakewalk ... I used to collab w a fella named Honest Abe L...AKA High Fives . High Fives Abe & I used to walk a few miles home from school every day barefoot . Once home we promptly did all our Midi homework using the same shovel while sharing a piece of coal Not sorry bout the sarcasm .. I keep wondering when I'm gonna hear this same exact story from someone else here on this or any other music forum After using tape for audio recording and hardware sequencers for midi work I went w a self contained HD digital recorder . I liked the simplicity of recording VIA that route but the editing was tedious . My true start w Cakewalk ...HS 2 , SONAR 5 SE , P5 V2.5 , SONAR 6 PE ....stayed there for years then I went w X3PE , SONAR Plat Lifetime , & Cakewalk by Bandlab .. for the record Cakewalk by Bandlab seems to be running the best  I have it on my X3 / Splat machines .... all the best Kenny
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noynekker
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/10 00:46:24
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Cakewalk by Bandlab, Cubase, RME Babyface Pro, Intel i7 3770K @3.5Ghz, Asus P8Z77-VPro/Thunderbolt, 32GB DDR3 RAM, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, 250 GB OS SSD, 2TB HDD samples, Win 10 Pro 64 bit, backed up by Macrium Reflect, Novation Impulse 61 Midi Key Controller, Tannoy Active Near Field Monitors, Guitars by Vantage, Gibson, Yamaki and Ovation.
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kennywtelejazz
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abacab
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/11 00:36:29
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DAW: CbB; Sonar Platinum, and others ...
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bapu
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/11 14:12:22
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StepD
I started with Voyetra for DOS in '92, then later that year upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Cakewalk 1.0 for Windows. One 3.5 inch floppy I think. It's probably still sitting in a drawer somewhere.
I also used Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold for a few years.
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SandlinJohn
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/11 17:59:36
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My "avatar" shows my first Cakewalk. For computer music, I started with a Commodore C=128 and the "Incredible Musical Keyboard" which included Ryo Kawasaki's "Kawasaki Synthesizer. It did not have MIDI or Audio recording. When I got to MS-DOS I needed to buy a new keyboard - one that worked with the PC. I went shopping and at Carlgrens Keyboards Plus I found a little FM Synth with a MPU-401 clone MIDI adapter. The little synth wasn't much more than a toy, but the MIDI adapter was the real deal. It came with Cakewalk 2.0 (for MS-DOS). That's the pile of documentation and disks in my avatar. In the mid 1990's I upgraded to Cakewalk 5.0 (still for MS-DOS) - but now it supported ANY MIDI adapter you could find on a PC - or at least nearly any. It did support the MIDI port on my Sound Blaster card, so that was good enough for me. I had a better keyboard by then, too, not so much a toy. Next I went through Cakewalk Express version 8, Cakewalk Music Creator, Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 7 XL, SONAR X1 Studio, Music Creator 6 Touch (I had a touch screen laptop at that time), SONAR X3 Studio, and finally SONAR Platinum. The story would have ended there, but now I have Cakewalk by BandLab, so the story continues. 
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stratman70
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Re: My Sonar History
2018/06/11 21:24:06
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bapu
I started on PA4 and purchased all versions except SONAR2.
Funny wierd, I started on PA6 and purchased all versions except SONAR2.
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kennywtelejazz
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2018/06/12 02:06:39
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abacab
Hey man, good to see you back and up to your usual antics! 
Noticed that you were missing for a while after the Gibson announcement. Hope all is well!!!
Antics ? I'm trying to smoke out that one guy who claims to be the longest Cakewalk user . According to The Legend , he claims too be Cakewalks first beta tester since he was born the same day & spent time in the same maternity ward as Greg Hendershot . Hey abacab , In spite of my recent posts ......All is well , I'm trying to get back .... nice talking w you Kenny
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