Anderton

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Why are people buying 3rd party plugins, synths etc !
Cause they'r not satisfied with what they got in the package they buy'd in the first place, just admit it. ;-)

Have you considered that people are satisfied with what comes with the package, but have specialized needs for specific types of projects? For example if you are doing film soundtracks you need heavy-duty orchestral libraries. Quality ones are very expensive, including something like East West or Kontakt in Sonar would raise the price astronomically. If you're doing dance music you might want something like Diva, which requires lots of CPU and makes no sense for someone doing hard rock...who might want a fantastic B3 emulation which is useless to the person doing dance music.
 
Someone doing voiceover or broadcast work might want noise reduction or restoration plug-ins that are expensive and of no use to the casual user. Hip-hop producers will want large loop libraries. And so on. 
 
Does the fact that all these people have different requirements mean they're not satisfied with what's in Sonar? Of course not. It simply means that different people have very different needs and expectations of what they want from a DAW. The flaw in your logic is that it assumes that you are representative of all users.

dubdisciple
I don't think he gets the fact that what he wants amounts to paying more and getting less. If you don't want the extras don't install them and that still comes out costing less than what he suggests. Stability is a non-sequitor since the extras don't change the core of the program. There's plenty of features I don't use on every program I own and sometimes I discover they were more useful than I thought. At that moment I am grateful since the a la carte approach would have meant I would never have discovered some very useful features

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dubdisciple
I don't think he gets the fact that what he wants amounts to paying more and getting less. If you don't want the extras don't install them and that still comes out costing less than what he suggests. Stability is a non-sequitor since the extras don't change the core of the program. There's plenty of features I don't use on every program I own and sometimes I discover they were more useful than I thought. At that moment I am grateful since the a la carte approach would have meant I would never have discovered some very useful features

Yes i would happily pay the same price for Sonar X3 PRO " Lite " a Proper secondary name would be Core
and just have all the Prochannel FX's but there should be an better GM VSTi synth, than TTS along with it.

As long i could have it all in less than 800mb / 1Gb size.

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dubdisciple
I don't think he gets the fact that what he wants amounts to paying more and getting less. If you don't want the extras don't install them and that still comes out costing less than what he suggests. Stability is a non-sequitor since the extras don't change the core of the program. There's plenty of features I don't use on every program I own and sometimes I discover they were more useful than I thought. At that moment I am grateful since the a la carte approach would have meant I would never have discovered some very useful features

Yes i would happily pay the same price for Sonar X3 PRO " Lite " a Proper secondary name would be Core
and just have all the Prochannel FX's but there should be an better GM VSTi synth, than TTS along with it.

As long i could have it all in less than 800mb / 1Gb size.

Beepster
I still think this is weird but you probably shouldn't mess with the core program. As far as plugs I notice you listed the Boost11 so you obviously need a limiter. If possible you should try to keep the Blue Tubes brickwall as well. It's significantly less harsh than the Boost11.

Beepster
 
This is what usually happens to me. I make painfully calculated decisions about things, those decisions put me through a bunch of angst and weirdness but in the long rub work out for the best.

Grem

Beepster
 
This is what usually happens to me. I make painfully calculated decisions about things, those decisions put me through a bunch of angst and weirdness but in the long rub work out for the best.

You just told my life story!!