Query about Studio One

I switched to Studio One and I'm going through the learning curve. I like it so far but my advice to you is download the demo and try it out yourself. 

Studio one 3 Pro is a great DAW. Used Sonar since Sonar 4 Producer all the way through to the current Platinum version. Started using Studio One 3 Pro about 7 months ago and to be honest I rarely open or use Sonar anymore, and when I do open it, it is just to grab song files to import into Studio One. As far as the Notion software, you would be better off to go over to their site on that one, although I am pretty sure they carry some type of Notion product in their store. So it's probably easily plays nice with Studio One.
Yes there is a learning curve with it, as would be with any new DAW once you are use to something else, but if you just set time apart to hunker down and dig in you will start to get it.

There are some nice Studio One features such as the Mix FX. The standard console emulator is great but you can expand it with the CTC-1 which is excellent.  They offer some nice stock plug-ins including the Fat Channel XT which many are not aware of yet.  It contains custom, vintage and passive type processors like nice EQ and dynamics. 
 
The standard Pro EQ is excellent and a great go to EQ for example.  You construct the Sonar pro channel environment and save it. You can have complex audio routings and parallel and series type signal paths going on all on one track or channel.  Those setups can be saved. You can build something like Pro Channel on the master buss.  And change the order of processing and alter it every time.  They assume you have some pretty cool and quality third party plugins which you can use and also build into your tracks/buses etc.. Very similar setups can be designed and created and saved.  As templates as well.  I bet some form of track template will be designed in the future. 
 
They have a very good system of feature requests and they are listening and implementing them all the time.  We have just had an update, 3.5.4 in fact!  Make sure if you are using Studio One you are on the very latest version. 

I've been demoing both Cubase 9.5 and Studio One. One of those will be my choice if I move on to another DAW.
 
I haven't spent a lot of time on S1, but I really like its interface. It's much closer to that of Sonar than Cubase, which is a completely incomprehensible, cluttered, cludgy mess. 
 
The only thing holding me back from going for S1 is its lack of certain MIDI features I rely on in Sonar. For example, as far as I can tell S1 does not have an "Event List" or the ability to search and replace notes that Sonar has. I've always relied on this feature to fix mistakes and/or to instantly covert all notes values to something else on a particular track (very useful when using rhythm kits). S1's "event functionalty" is really the same as Sonar's piano roll, a feature I never used. S1 also doesn't have flexible MIDI effects and its quantization capabilities are pretty limited.
 
If anyone using S1 knows whether the features i need are somehow available but not readily evident please let me know. Compared to Cubase, I know that I could really get up to speed quickly in S1 if I need to switch. But to me having top-notch MIDI capabilities is the most important thing. 
 
 

As far as midi event editing, that is the beauty of having more than one DAW.  I still have Sonar Producer 8.5 installed on another 32 bit machine. My computers are networked so I can boot up Sonar and it can open say a midi file. From my main machine without even moving it.  You can edit then using the event list.  Re-save under a new name and then open that file in your session.  I have used this especially for opening up commercial midi files and sometimes having to remove a series of un-needed events that are sometimes planted in the first one or two intro bars.  Which can cause grief.
 
There is plenty of midi expansion to come we think.  It is likely that in a major update e.g. Studio One V4 they will implement a host of midi features.
 
This where the thinking comes in too.  You should be able to do most editing things you do in the event list now by using the visual cues now e.g. the PRV. and learning how to use it.  It is possible now to microscopically edit parts of your midi event performances in Studio One.  You can also run Notion side by side and work with the score view if you are so inclined.  There is a level of deeper integration between Notion and Studio One. They talk to each other. 
 

raisindot
I've been demoing both Cubase 9.5 and Studio One. One of those will be my choice if I move on to another DAW.
 
I haven't spent a lot of time on S1, but I really like its interface. It's much closer to that of Sonar than Cubase, which is a completely incomprehensible, cluttered, cludgy mess. 
 
The only thing holding me back from going for S1 is its lack of certain MIDI features I rely on in Sonar. For example, as far as I can tell S1 does not have an "Event List" or the ability to search and replace notes that Sonar has. I've always relied on this feature to fix mistakes and/or to instantly covert all notes values to something else on a particular track (very useful when using rhythm kits). S1's "event functionalty" is really the same as Sonar's piano roll, a feature I never used. S1 also doesn't have flexible MIDI effects and its quantization capabilities are pretty limited.
 
If anyone using S1 knows whether the features i need are somehow available but not readily evident please let me know. Compared to Cubase, I know that I could really get up to speed quickly in S1 if I need to switch. But to me having top-notch MIDI capabilities is the most important thing. 
 
 

Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, Studio One does have an Event List; it's called MIDI Monitor. Its symbol is a MIDI cable at the very bottom of the left-ish side of the screen. It looks like this: 
 

Jeff Evans
The Midi monitor is just that. It tells you what the midi signals are. There is no way to freeze or edit the data.

Sorry, Jeff, I apparently did misunderstand.
 
I don't use Event Manager much (in Sonar), but I'll keep my eye open for the equivalent in Studio One as I work through it. I just got it last week with Notion in a bundle from Sweetwater.

OK thanks guys for all the info and opinion.
I have decided to take at least one piece of advice - to download the demo and muck about with it 
Will be looking to see how easy/complete it is to import projects from Sonar. Also to see how Notion fits in to it.
 
But - along with all you guys, I guess - I'm still hoping/praying that Sonar continues and grows