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Probably answered before, but humor me please...

I LOVE this software. Why will the bakers not make it for Mac(OSX)???

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:30:40 (permalink)
Lack of resources / demand

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:35:48 (permalink)
I would personally love it if they would...seems like every other DAW works with both platforms. oh well...maybe one day.

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:37:49 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby tlw 2016/03/11 15:13:45
Logic is Mac only.
 
I seriously wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a Mac version of Sonar, for the reasons stated above.

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:41:23 (permalink)
Yeah...and I don't like Logic...makes no sense.

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:48:06 (permalink)
Hi frosty,
don´t have any suggestions on Sonar on mac (osX)
but dark humor:
During a funeral, the pallbearers accidentally bump into a wall and hear a faint moan. They open the casket and find out that the woman is actually alive.
She lives for 10 more years and then dies. There is another funeral for her. At the end of the service, the pallbearers carry out the casket.
As they are walking out, the husband cries out, "Watch out for the wall!"
 
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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:50:34 (permalink)
Ha! Good one...I'll shamelessly steal that!

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 10:59:28 (permalink)
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Yeah...and I don't like Logic...makes no sense.


Hahaha -  pun intended I hope:) 

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 11:36:46 (permalink)
Not at all

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 12:10:34 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby tlw 2016/03/11 15:14:01
SONAR is deeply married to Windows. Adapting it to Mac would require a profound rewrite of its basic architecture. It would entail a huge expense will little payoff, since Logic and ProTools own 95% of that market already, and we sometimes forget just how much bigger the Windows market is. Does a company want 10% of a huge market or 0.01% of a much smaller market?


All else is in doubt, so this is the truth I cling to. 

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 12:18:02 (permalink)
Damn logic again...ugh

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/09 12:23:00 (permalink)
If you haven't already you can always bootcamp your mac Frostysnake. I ran Sonar on a macbook pro for quite a few years. 

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/10 11:41:08 (permalink)
I've thought about using bootcamp, but have heard it is cumbersome. Any good material anyone could share on how to make this work? I'm somewhat new to a Mac, so I'm learning as I go... thanks in advance for the replies!

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/10 19:11:01 (permalink)
It has been a couple years since I got rid of my Macs,  but bootcamp was very simple to install and both windows and Sonar ran perfectly.  Once windows is installed through boot camp you can simply boot up in either windows or osx,  unlike clunky solutions like Parallels which run a virtual version of windows inside osx with shared memory and drivers. 
 
All you need to know is on Apples website:
 
https://www.apple.com/au/support/bootcamp/
 

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/11 11:52:06 (permalink)
Thank you sir!

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/11 15:06:53 (permalink)
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Yeah...and I don't like Logic...makes no sense.


That was my view of it when I first tried using Logoc (collaboration with people already 100% commited to Mac+Logic kind of forced me down that route).

It does make sense, but it's far harder than Sonar initially, especially if you're already used to DAWs that do things the Sonar way. It doesn't help that compared to Sonar Logic's documentation/help is very poor. The enormously powerful but enormously complicated MIDI environment in particular is almost entirely undocumented and utterly impenetrable without buying third party books and a lot of internet searching.

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Re: Probably answered before, but humor me please... 2016/03/12 00:49:09 (permalink)
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Thank you sir!


You're very welcome:) 

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