jude77
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Who's happy with Sonar?
A few months back Craig Anderton made the observation that it seems like there is a lot of complaining on this forum because people who post here are experiencing problems with Sonar and have come looking for solutions.
Well, I, for one, would like to offer that while I've had problems with Sonar, overall I'm delighted with it. It's an amazing piece of software at an amazing price. Anyone else happy?
All the best.
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Cactus Music
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 13:35:03
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I'm certainly happy. It does take time to keep up with all the new stuff, most of which I will not use. But example I tried drum replacer the other day and it was a train wreck. That's because I jumped in without reading any instructions. You really need to study each feature first and not expect things to be user friendly. I tend to figure things out on my own or will read about a tip here. That's why I stay on this forum. If I really get stuck then I ask questions here.
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 13:40:07
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 13:43:46
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I'm a happy camper! 
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 13:48:01
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Me Me Me Meeeee! I don't stress it to much though. Audio recording, synth here and there. Makes songs - works for me.
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Brando
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 13:51:16
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Happy too. I have griped on these forums about features I won't/haven't used and a lack of fixes in areas I would like to see improved (staff view, touch, video, tempo view/sync to midi clock). But SPlat is supremely stable and quicker than ever and I know it better than anything else. I picked up the JRR Shop 12 month extension. While I may pick something else up, I am sticking with SONAR as my main DAW.
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 13:56:42
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I'm happy apart from the absence of a plug in which gives me more than two hours per week to use the damn thing. ...#kids
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Jesse G
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:01:18
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I love Sonar, especially Platinum! There are so many good features to use that it will please just about anyone who gets to learn it. Yes, there are some of us who have had problems with Sonar, but there isn't a DAW program out there on the market today that will please everyone. Now where is my Cakewalk Coffee Mug Bakers?? HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! 2015,... going,.... goin,...goi,...go,,,g, .. 
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:05:35
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I have been happy with Sonar Platinum. I also picked up Mixbus 3 as an experiment, but am sticking with Sonar since it has a much better user interface.
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King_Windom
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:09:41
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Very happy with Platinum...and it keeps getting better!
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:14:08
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Happy with Sonar as a whole. There is more to this program than I need or that I even care about, really.
But, I can do what I want and need to do. The main thing that is a problem for me is editing MIDI. I used a different DAW before Sonar and I can't get that "style" or "way" out of my head enough to truly understand how to edit MIDI in Sonar. But, I will get there.
Sonar is Good.
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:15:48
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:49:26
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very happy. granted, there are many features that i haven't even tried yet (drum replacer, patch points, Addictive Drums, Strum Acoustic, etc) and i had to modify my comping workflow because i was having problems with my audio takes disappearing into ghost form. overall though, with X3 & now Platinum, i have never been more productive
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 14:56:40
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I absolutely freaking despise it. Worst program EVAR!
Therefore I'm going to hang out here day in and day out to tell you all how much it sucks and how wrong you all are for liking it.
Kay?
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 17:11:00
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I cruise through creativity in Sonar Platinum. The more and longer I use it the better and better it gets.
I can't wait each day for my time to get to it.
Two internal 2TB SSDs laptop stuffed with Larry's deals and awesome tools. Studio One is the cat's meow as a DAW now that I've migrated off of Sonar. Using BandLab Cakewalk just to grab old files when migrating songs.
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WallyG
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 18:16:46
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I'm not happy with Sonar... I'm ecstatic! This is been my hobby since retiring a few years ago, and been using Sonar almost everyday. It does get better every day. Plus there's over 2000 pages to the User's Manual, this forum and new stuff being added every month so I'm always learning and will not get bored. The music I make with it is pretty nice too... Walt
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 21:15:08
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I am Happy with SONAR
This forum made me Happier.
Wish I could handle and utilize SONAR properly to create good songs to be the Happiest.
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 21:53:15
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 21:57:13
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I'm with the crowd on this one...........liking it better all the time!
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 22:07:07
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It beats the old A-3340-S and later the 38. When I saw "bounce to clips".... I kinda first freaked... but all is OK.
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 22:09:08
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happy I am,
another DAW I need not
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 22:10:52
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Sonar sits right at the centre of how I make a living every day, and it's remarkable, to me at least, how rarely it gets in the way of whatever I need to get done. So yeah, happy. Costs me less than I spend on cups of tea every month, too.
post edited by John T - 2015/12/26 22:23:17
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 22:11:22
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 22:29:25
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It's cool and it has improved considerably throughout the last year.
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 23:32:07
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Happy? Well yes.......yes I am:)
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 23:39:29
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/26 23:39:55
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Beepster
I absolutely freaking despise it. Worst program EVAR!
Therefore I'm going to hang out here day in and day out to tell you all how much it sucks and how wrong you all are for liking it.
Kay?
LOL, this is sooo Funny!   Beepster must have had a great Christmas.
post edited by Jesse G - 2015/12/26 23:52:28
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/27 01:31:01
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Beepster
I absolutely freaking despise it. Worst program EVAR!
Therefore I'm going to hang out here day in and day out to tell you all how much it sucks and how wrong you all are for liking it.
Kay?
Yeah, uh, could ya? I'm really getting tired of your( and everyone elses') helpful input and genuinely sincere desire to help. How am I ever going to fulfill my life's mission of being miserable when everytime I try to complain someone like yourself comes up with the answers to my problems? 
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/27 05:33:52
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Many times I use something I haven't used before, I hit bugs.
I have had extended holidays, hoped to complete 2 projects.
Instead I have chased down and reported 7 bugs (with the help of the good folks here).
This amounts to around 4 full working days on my part alone.
I can only understand this if most serious users follow a personal workflow largely unchanged,
and that the majority of Sonar owners seldom use it intensively.
A lot works, sure, but I would be deceiving myself if I expressed unreserved joy.
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tenfoot
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Re: Who's happy with Sonar?
2015/12/27 05:45:36
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jpetersen
Many times I use something I haven't used before, I hit bugs.
I have had extended holidays, hoped to complete 2 projects.
Instead I have chased down and reported 7 bugs (with the help of the good folks here).
This amounts to around 4 full working days on my part alone.
I can only understand this if most serious users follow a personal workflow largely unchanged,
and that the majority of Sonar owners seldom use it intensively.
A lot works, sure, but I would be deceiving myself if I expressed unreserved joy.
I think many people on this forum use Sonar very intensively. 7 bugs...wow....that's a lot! Just curious as to what they are. Had a quick look through your last few threads but they seemed to be problems you were having rather than bugs in the software.
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