Sonar - What's with the name?

Sorry if this has been asked before, but why is Sonar, a DAW host application, named after an echo-location device?

RADAR was already taken...

Some people ask me a similar thing about DigiFreq... why?

Many can already guess though that it's a combo of Digital and Frequency.

Scott

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ORIGINAL: bapu

A DAW by any other name is still a DAW.

Unless it's slightly open in which case it's a jar.

Because I said so!

Some people ask me a similar thing about DigiFreq... why?

Many can already guess though that it's a combo of Digital and Frequency.

Scott

Yea, and Scott's a freak!

Sonar, So Good

It's actually from a Shakespeare book according to 'History' section on Cakewalk

A line from Cymbeline

PHILARIO - Record these words and notes.
SONAR - Shall be like an echo of thou very sound.


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It originally stood for Sound Navigation and Ranging.
Kind of fits.

ORIGINAL: Shadow of The Wind

A PING needs time to return to the transducer. This is how SONAR and RADAR measure distance.
I guess it is a reminder that DAWs always will have latency.

Wilko

The most feasible explanation so far, heh heh.

I've often wondered but never brought myself to ask. I can picture the boardroom meeting..."Well, sonar uses sound, and Das Boot was a ****in' movie, so let's call it that!"

ORIGINAL: garrigus

Hey, nice turntable ya got there...

That's actually a device that mounts on your turntable and allows you to cut your own vinyl records! Pretty cool, huh? There's a thread over at GS...

That's actually a device that mounts on your turntable and allows you to cut your own vinyl records!

Damn! Whatever will they think of next???

ORIGINAL: Shadow of The Wind

A PING needs time to return to the transducer. This is how SONAR and RADAR measure distance.
I guess it is a reminder that DAWs always will have latency.

Wilko

Guys, the whole premise of SONAR is how radar systems are designed; from the basic principals of transmitting some sort of radiated signal out into space, and then receiving the reflections of any radiated/intercepted objects. From this, the rate of return of the signal can help to determine the distance of the object, and the strength and footprint of the energy return could also determine the size and nature of the object being radiated. The more rapidly to transmit, the more often you get return signals. More Transmission power (frequency) = Faster Returns (since Time = 1/Frequency)

So in the case of Cakewalk, they probably had a concept that the faster they push out new releases (regardless of how many initial bugs in the release), the faster the rate of return of cashflow from established Cakewalk users. The more you creep in new features (as opposed to fixing old ones), the more you will attract New users that don't know any better and increase your cash return.

BTW, I love Cakewalk. I really don't mean what I said above. I was just trying to add humor is all.

I love lamp.

I love sonar.