35mm
OK for those accusing me of being biased or thinking that my suspicions of DAW vote rigging are a sign of my insanity etc. Here is an image clipped from the graph of poll results during one of the voting patterns that made me suspicious. At the top and the bottom, you see sections of the standard voting pattern which is representative of what the pattern was usually like. Inbetween those you see an unbroken line of loads of S1 votes that come in in a short period during which the view counter on the poll forum thread hardly increases. A similar pattern occurred at the same time of day over a few days during the 12 days of polling.
 
https://ibb.co/i4OUBb
 
I think any sensible person would become a tad suspicious when faced with these facts. This is why I suggested that S1 is the most popular choice even if the suspicious votes are removed, however, the margin of its popularity i.e. the number of votes in my view, couldn't be depended on due to the facts I have presented here.

 
Haha. I stand corrected 35mm. Someone out there does indeed have that little in their life, and they REALLY like S1:)

anyway.  didn't mean to seem like it was  some major issue. no worries

I didn't take part in the poll, because I couldn't pick more than one option, which is what would apply for me.  I'm keeping with SONAR for the time being at least, however I did also purchase Harrison Mixbus, purely on the strength of the deal.  In addition, I plan on buying a licence for Reaper in the near future (as, based on my initial experience, Mixbus's MIDI implementation isn't great and seeing as I do use this quite a lot, having better MIDI implementation is desirable for me).

backwoods
it's like someone who really likes studio one did the survey againa and again and again and again and again and again etc. wonder if there is anyone on the Cakewalk forums who likes studio one THAT much? 

I do. I am currently working on a CD project that involves 3 DAWs and I like S1 the most because it is fast and efficient. For example clip gain, meloydne and audio bounce in S1 is faster than Sonar. Midi quantize is a heck lot faster too. Most importantly it is a lot more stable than Sonar.

tenfoot

35mm
... Here is an image clipped from the graph of poll results during one of the voting patterns that made me suspicious. At the top and the bottom, you see sections of the standard voting pattern which is representative of what the pattern was usually like. Inbetween those you see an unbroken line of loads of S1 votes that come in in a short period during which the view counter on the poll forum thread hardly increases. A similar pattern occurred at the same time of day over a few days during the 12 days of polling.
 
https://ibb.co/i4OUBb
 
I think any sensible person would become a tad suspicious when faced with these facts...

Haha. I stand corrected 35mm. Someone out there does indeed have that little in their life, and they REALLY like S1:)

That's quite hilarious. And "a tad suspicious" is currently in my pole position for Understatement Of The Year... well OK, the year is young still, but you've got a solid initial lead... 
 
Now if you'll pardon me, I'm just going to go and take half an hour of my life to artificially skew the results of a literally meaningless poll. 

JohanSebatianGremlin
Though some find your efforts to be pointless, I for one did find the poll and its inaccurate unscientific results worthwhile. If for no other reason than to feed my own curiosity. The results don't need to be spot on hyper accurate to get a feel for what others are choosing. Thanks for posting.

Thanks. I basically did it for people like us who are curious and don't need OCD levels of accuracy to fulfill our curiosity. It does amaze me though that there is obviously someone here who is such a Studio One fanboy that they felt they had to f*ck with the results. I know there are a few people around here who know nothing about music or how to produce it but like to buy the software so they can pretend, so I can only assume it was one of them otherwise they would have been too busy making music than to waste their time rigging a silly little poll.
 
I do think though if the poll and this thread prove anything, it's that all the fanboys went for Studio One. That's not to say that everyone who went for Studio One is a fanboy! I have Studio One. It's not my main DAW but I find it interesting and really think it's going to be something special in the future. The fact that their forum might be full of fanboys kind of puts me off like it does with Apple. If the results are adjusted to account for the fanboy rigging, they prove that Cubase and Studio One are the most popular choices with Studio One maybe having the edge. But the majority of people didn't go for Studio One or Cubase. They stayed with Sonar or went with another DAW or didn't vote. So the whole poll and the effort someone went to rig it was all a completely pointless waste of time ;) While the poll was running I was busy producing music in Sonar (mixing and exporting stems only), Studio One, Samplitude and if I'm honest I did something unspeakable in FLStudio too. It saddens me that during that time someone was spending their musical time rigging the vote. Someone earlier mentioned 'obsessive compulsive'. Having lived with someone with OCD that kind of behavior fits the rigging pretty well!

backwoods
what the poll proved beyond question is that at least one presonus studio one fanboy is a total muppet :)

Hmm I suggest Muppet fanboy survey across DAWs to build a more accurate picture.

Actually I'd almost pay money to see it happening.

It's time to get things started?
Why don't you get things started...

Hmm familiar...

CakeAlexSHere
Ok here it is.

NEW SURVEY!

https://doodle.com/poll/isrec9qxuxguwg99

Ha ha ha I voted. Not saying what for though.

Awesome. I voted, but for a write-in candidate...

So far 3 votes for leaving Sonar.
Two votes for "Is this the real life"

I suspect fowl play with the "is this the real life" votes this will be going through a massive audit over the next few days.

Lol. From my experience with polls in the past in various music artist forums cheating a poll like this is tad easy. You just need to take some time and create a macros in browser. Internet Poll is reliable only if allowed only one vote per visitor. And the visitor should be registered or logged in with registered email id or phone. Only then its reliable. But still some one can create multiple accounts and vote. But it's difficult that way, so it won't cause too much difference.

Why don't you start a thread here and ask people to vote by commenting their vote. You will get an almost accurate result then. (Ask them not to comment anything else.)

The thread count at BeyondCakewalk.com is interesting not sure if it has generated the most sales but Studio One is definitely generating the most discussion.