Starise
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I am a multi user of several daws. Still using Sonar SPLAT. I have used Studio One for some time. Only recently increased my use of it because of The Cakewalk shut down. I have to say, the more I use SO3Pro the more I like it.
It has some really cool features in it.
I bought Mixcraft Pro 8 on a whim. I'm glad I did. It has some very great features as well. For the sale price I think I got a bargain.
Maybe a few here remember me talking about coming up with a system to use backing tracks in my church. I originally thought I would simply compose tracks and play a mono/click L/R setup. The more I looked into it, the more I was convinced Ableton would be my best choice because I could do so many things "on the fly" with it. Since I already had an old copy that qualified me for an upgrade. I upgraded for a good price to Ableton 9. I also qualify for a free upgrade to Live 10 with that purchase.
I picked up a heavyweight gamer laptop to use with Ableton. Two hard drives 256SSD, 1TB 7200 rpm.16gb ram. Quad core i7 7700U I think. The graphics in it is overkill. I might even buy a game he he. I am pairing it up with a Focusrite 818i second gen interface to send a click to the band and as a keys mixer.
I almost bought an Apple computer for the live work, but the specs just weren't there for what I wanted to do and the $$ I wanted to spend. What they offer right now is just kinda odd and over priced. It's tough to find a mac 13" with 16gb of ram in it. Even the Macbook Pro is 8gb and only one SSD, unless you order custom.So once again I tipped in the Windows direction. I did give the Mac a fair comparison.
If I had bought a Mac I could have still used Ableton and SO3PRO. Just wouldn't have had the same capability.
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2017/12/22 20:44:08
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2017/12/22 20:53:34
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will use sonar till the wheels fall off all the while learning Samplitude
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2017/12/22 23:00:25
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will use sonar till the wheels fall off all the while learning Samplitude
Yup... that's exactly where I am at the moment.
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Sometimes it seems like some need affirmation of their choice. Kinda weird, considering the average age here. I kerp seeing folks say "the right thing" ...until someone makes a comment bashing the product they didn't choose and suddenly they pile one before returning back to "the right thing".
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I went with Studio One Pro. This is not going to be a problem coming from Sonar. I had been considering giving a good chance after watching all the Groove3 Luke Oswald videos on SD3 and SD2 and EZ Drummer 2. So this just made me do something I had been trying to justify. I also go a copy of Tracktion Waveform Basic. Not much for extras but only $50. I will be able to only use my 3rd party FX and VSTi's. I like that. I use almost all instruments through the VIP software with my Akai Advance so once the instrument is in there is no difference from one DAW to another. Instruments and layered multi's with effects can be saved as presets and used in whatever DAW I want. I like that too. A lot!
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2017/12/23 04:01:04
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☄ Helpfulby synkrotron 2017/12/23 09:49:35
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Sometimes it seems like some need affirmation of their choice. Kinda weird, considering the average age here. I kerp seeing folks say "the right thing" ...until someone makes a comment bashing the product they didn't choose and suddenly they pile one before returning back to "the right thing".
I'm using the left thing, because two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left!
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2017/12/23 05:13:30
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Jeff Evans
35mm
I guess some hobby users might be emotionally attached in the way you say, but I think you are missing a wider point. For anyone using Sonar commercially or doing anything serious with it, it represents a huge investment not just of money, but of time and familiarity. Not to mention all the projects that are now tied into Sonar that take a lot of time and effort to move to safety in another DAW where it's nearly impossible to replicate the original. These are major upheavals that are bound to make people emotional, not so much for the sad demise of Sonar, but the sad demise of their workflow and all the hassle involved. There are a lot of people affected by that. Your message comes across as being pretty cold and heartless for people having to go through this struggle and at this time of year.
You know what they say. It is not what happens to you, it is how you handle it! I am a professional user and was using 8.5 Producer at the time of the X1 debacle. I knew then I had to switch. And did so quickly and efficiently in fact. It is the more professional users in fact that will do this without emotion and get on with it. I don't know why everyone is going on about transferring projects over because as a professional in reality you actually don't. You finish projects in Sonar and that is in fact the best place to leave them. If a pro job sounds good you won't in fact have to revisit it again! I have never had to transfer a single thing over. Occasionally you might have to open something but that is why I still have 8.5 still installed and running on an older machine. The best thing to do is quickly learn the new DAW and continue with new projects on that. And if you are a pro then you can actually still do the odd project or two in your original DAW while learning the new one. This whole procedure is still not an emotional experience. It simply does not have to be. It is all about how you handle it.
Sounds like to me you are not a professional user but a hobbyist. I see the hobbyist as having the emotional response, not the professional. When professionals encounter problems they find solutions and move on. You have to.
No, I am a pro user. I make my living from using software like this. I have to keep a working copy of everything I do as an archive no matter how good the mix was. That means transferring everything! Sonar isn't my only DAW I have several, but it was my main DAW for a long time and the one that was used for most serious stuff and the one I invested most time and effort in. It sounds to me like you are a troll - you have no interest in a poll yet you post in this thread. You diss people who are affected by the loss of Sonar. What is your point? You spout on about Logic, but most of us are here as an alternative to Pro Tools on Mac. I for one hate anything to do with Apple so Logic is of no interest!
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☄ Helpfulby BassDaddy 2017/12/23 14:13:34
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A daw is only a software. It is only a tool, nothing more.
Agreed. A nice tool. But just a tool. When that tool doesn't work, reach for another one.
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2017/12/23 14:33:29
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I wish everyone would calm the **** down...
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☄ Helpfulby tenfoot 2017/12/24 15:25:32
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I wish everyone would calm the **** down...
That was said in a very small and diminutive voice, by the way.
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dubdisciple
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2017/12/23 16:56:57
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dubdisciple
Sometimes it seems like some need affirmation of their choice. Kinda weird, considering the average age here. I kerp seeing folks say "the right thing" ...until someone makes a comment bashing the product they didn't choose and suddenly they pile one before returning back to "the right thing".
I'm using the left thing, because two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left!
I thought 3 lefts to the 3rd power of the square of pi made a right?
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35mm i assure you Jeff is no troll. He is one of the more rational and helpful members here.
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2017/12/23 17:07:53
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After a year of trying both SO3P and Reaper, Reaper has become my primary.
BTW, the Multi-Inst work-around for lack of track templates in SO is a PITA IMO, and does nothing to help the input side. SO3P is a very slick bit of kit though. I'll be keeping it up to date to see it evolves.
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Jim Roseberry
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2017/12/23 17:32:56
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Jeff Evans
Sounds like to me you are not a professional user but a hobbyist. I see the hobbyist as having the emotional response, not the professional. When professionals encounter problems they find solutions and move on. You have to.
FWIW, I've had professional Sonar users contact me... and while they are "moving on"... they're not necessarily happy about it. Making a wholesale move involves a lot of work. Liken it to moving residence. Yeah, it can be new/exciting (even a major step up)... but it can be a lot of work. 
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2017/12/23 17:46:33
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Sounds like to me you are not a professional user but a hobbyist. I see the hobbyist as having the emotional response, not the professional. When professionals encounter problems they find solutions and move on. You have to.
FWIW, I've had professional Sonar users contact me... and while they are "moving on"... they're not necessarily happy about it. Making a wholesale move involves a lot of work. Liken it to moving residence.
Yeah, it can be new/exciting (even a major step up)... but it can be a lot of work.
Indeed Jim. I've moved on to Samplitude and I am loving it and preferring it to Sonar in many ways! What I am not loving is the backlog of stuff I have to move out of Sonar which is a slow, laborious and demoralizing process. There are 1000s of others having to go through the same thing, all because of a few incompetent goons at Gibson.
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I got Studio one 3 pro with the upgrade they were offering , but in all honesty i am absolutely loving Reaper, its a top top DAW.
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2017/12/23 19:26:50
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Jim Roseberry
Jeff Evans
Sounds like to me you are not a professional user but a hobbyist. I see the hobbyist as having the emotional response, not the professional. When professionals encounter problems they find solutions and move on. You have to.
FWIW, I've had professional Sonar users contact me... and while they are "moving on"... they're not necessarily happy about it. Making a wholesale move involves a lot of work. Liken it to moving residence.
Yeah, it can be new/exciting (even a major step up)... but it can be a lot of work.
Indeed Jim. I've moved on to Samplitude and I am loving it and preferring it to Sonar in many ways! What I am not loving is the backlog of stuff I have to move out of Sonar which is a slow, laborious and demoralizing process. There are 1000s of others having to go through the same thing, all because of a few incompetent goons at Gibson.
The incompetence, if any, was with Cakewalk, not Gibson.
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Jeff Evans
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2017/12/23 19:43:43
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35mm i assure you Jeff is no troll. He is one of the more rational and helpful members here.
Yes 35mm is way off base there. All I am saying is as someone who has transversed a few DAW's in my professional work I have simply found that moving tons of projects from one to the other in my case anyway is just not necessary. I say wait until the need arises before you do because chances are that you won't have to. In reality it is very rarely required. I agree about Apple though for sure. They are a funny company and they do weird things. Making things redundant being one of them. They seem to be good at that. It is good that Studio One runs on both platforms so if you have a Mac already Logic is definitely worth investigating because it one of the longest running, deepest and most powerful Daw's out there. It has a far bigger user base than Sonar that is for sure. I am also not underestimating the work required either shifting to a new Daw. Hobbyist or professional. You just don't have to get all emotional about it though.
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2017/12/23 20:37:45
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35mm i assure you Jeff is no troll. He is one of the more rational and helpful members here.
Jeff is not a troll. He may not agree with you, and will let you know for sure! But at troll? Nope.
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2017/12/23 21:01:48
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35mm i assure you Jeff is no troll. He is one of the more rational and helpful members here.
Yes 35mm is way off base there. All I am saying is as someone who has transversed a few DAW's in my professional work I have simply found that moving tons of projects from one to the other in my case anyway is just not necessary. I say wait until the need arises before you do because chances are that you won't have to. In reality it is very rarely required.
I agree about Apple though for sure. They are a funny company and they do weird things. Making things redundant being one of them. They seem to be good at that. It is good that Studio One runs on both platforms so if you have a Mac already Logic is definitely worth investigating because it one of the longest running, deepest and most powerful Daw's out there. It has a far bigger user base than Sonar that is for sure.
I am also not underestimating the work required either shifting to a new Daw. Hobbyist or professional. You just don't have to get all emotional about it though.
I'm not emotional about it :) I have used a lot of other DAWs since the late 80's. I started out as a tape opp in a commercial studio when I was 18, and later became the resident engineer in an analog studio I ran in partnership with a friend during the 90's. Call me old-fashioned, but I was always required to keep everything archived in a state where it could be remixed, remastered, edited or handed over at any time in the future, and I have had to pull stuff out of archive for various reasons in the past, such as if an artist subsequently gets signed to a label and the label wants to take control of the recordings. I still have a pile of Ampex 456 stacked up and archived from the 90's and early 2000's, stored in a dry environment away from magnetic fields. Sonar is now unsupported so it is not safe to archive things as .cwp files because if Sonar does stop working it will never get fixed and those .cwp files will be useless. So there very much is a need to migrate everything from Sonar to my new main DAW. Sonar wasn't my only DAW but it was the main one I used for most things for a long time. So no, I'm not emotional about a bit of software. I am pis*ed off about it though! I'm not missing Sonar. I have Samplitude now which is great and in many ways is far better than Sonar. I'm really happy with it, but I still have stuff I have to finish up in Sonar and a huge extra workload now that I could really do without which is why I am pis*ed off.
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35mm. you have valid concerns. i have unfinished projects in sonar. At the same time, I doubt the software stops working overnight. you should have plenty of time to finish up and archive projects in non-cakewalk manner. if you are that concerned, keep an offline computer with stable install of sonar in case you need to use it. i have a computer I am doing that with. i am going to cleanup everything but sonar and then simply leave it in case of emergency.
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Jeff Evans
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I can see where you are coming from with a tape background. I have also come from that too and in fact have a huge library of analog masters both stereo and multitrack which I still have yet to transfer to digital. The longer you leave it the harder it becomes too. With the multitracks though the best I am going to be able to do is capture the raw tracks only.
With an artist and the record company wanting stuff I would guess they would want the raw multis and they will get someone else to mix. That has happened to me once or twice.
I suppose the best you can do is somehow get a working copy of Sonar on your system that will not be dependent on their servers to work eg you own the software. At least you can open the sessions up. I am lucky in that I have still got 8.5 setup on another machine and it still works perfectly to this day. It was at least authorised once and it stays that way. If you keep your main machine off the net too I have found you rarely have to do complete re-installs.
And to Jim recently I had to record 10 songs at 24 multi tracks each in Logic. I had not used Logic for a very long time. I was a bit worried to be honest but after some short training I sorted it very easily. It was not like moving house at all but more like visiting a very nice friend's house!
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I'm not emotional about it :) . . . So no, I'm not emotional about a bit of software. I am pis*ed off about it though! I'm not missing Sonar.
The following http://forum.cakewalk.com...d-Gibson-m3691009.aspx 35mm
I am gutted at the loss of Cakewalk & Sonar. I literally feel like a good friend has just passed away!
would seem to suggest otherwise, along with other like comments you have made. Comparing the end of a piece of software and software company with the death of a good friend would seem to indicate some type of irrational emotional attachment to said software/company. And to join the others, Mr Evans is most certainly not a troll. Just because someone doesn't agree with the way you think, or like what you like does not make them a troll.
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2017/12/23 21:36:28
personally, i am looking forward to having the problem of having to dig up tracking sessions from 10 years ago. That likely means I have created something that there is a huge demand to be remixed and mastered. That sounds like rich people problems!
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I'm not emotional about it :) . . . So no, I'm not emotional about a bit of software. I am pis*ed off about it though! I'm not missing Sonar.
The following http://forum.cakewalk.com...d-Gibson-m3691009.aspx
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I am gutted at the loss of Cakewalk & Sonar. I literally feel like a good friend has just passed away!
would seem to suggest otherwise, along with other like comments you have made. Comparing the end of a piece of software and software company with the death of a good friend would seem to indicate some type of irrational emotional attachment to said software/company.
And to join the others, Mr Evans is most certainly not a troll. Just because someone doesn't agree with the way you think, or like what you like does not make them a troll.
Guilty as charged. That was 5 weeks ago when we were all still in shock and was partly in reference to Cakewalk and its employees. I have moved on to another DAW now. Jeff keeps telling me not to be emotional about software in this thread, but I haven't been. I am sure Jeff isn't a troll. I was just alluding to the fact that he had stated that he had no interest in this poll yet he kept posting in this thread, disputed my use of Sonar and kept telling me not to be emotional. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me. I set the poll up because I thought it might be interesting. There's no serious merit to it. There have been 270 responses so far so I guess other folks are interested too. Just a couple of people seem to have a negative attitude towards it and I can't see why. It's all harmless fun at the end of the day.
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2017/12/23 22:30:07
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personally, i am looking forward to having the problem of having to dig up tracking sessions from 10 years ago. That likely means I have created something that there is a huge demand to be remixed and mastered. That sounds like rich people problems!
I wish I was rich, well at least better off. It's more a case of just being responsible for the storage of sessions should they ever be required again for any reason. Most are not. I do a lot of stuff. Some commercial and some not, but I archive all of it because that's what I do and I know damn well that the one thing I don't archive will be the one thing I regret not archiving!
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2017/12/23 23:42:33
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People have taken quite a big hit with the sudden discontinuation of something that they rely on. To feel emotional seems appropriate under the circumstances.
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2017/12/24 00:12:33
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The "downside" to all these deals is that it creates a false sense of urgency and a compulsion to validate rushed choices. Samplitude is a great product that has been around almost as long as Cakewalk. With that said, a month ago, it was hardly mentioned and now it is suddenly the greatest thing since wafflebot. Somehow everyone learned in under 30 days what they have somehow missed in 30 years? Same can be said regarding all the other products being christened as the superior alternative to Sonar. I rejected buying Studio One at least twice in past because I didn't see enough in 30 days to warrant switch.
For those who have not chosen yet, take your time. I'm sure many of these deals will be honored for a reasonable time. Your Sonar still works. Yes, i gave an answer to survey, but my necessity og using multiple DAWs has taught me that most of them will be suitable for all but the mosy specialized of us once given proper time to adjust.
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I archive all of it because that's what I do and I know damn well that the one thing I don't archive will be the one thing I regret not archiving!
You are doing the right thing for sure. Keep on doing it brother! Because you know the one that you don't archive..... : )
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