Jesse G

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.

My thought exactly!!
 
Very happy camper here, the sum total of what we've received in the last 12 months has been nothing less than phenomenal!
And acquiring it in monthly, bit sized chunks has certainly made the learning curve a LOT less steep than getting it all in one go.
 
Looking forward to what 2016 has in store for us

bliss baby here... Never imagined being able to do what we can do...
 

My cat LOVES sonar (and so do I)!

I love Sonar or SPLAT as it is referred too lately.
I totally hate the fact I have less and less time to use it.
Can't the bakers add a time shift function where we can stop the time clock so we have more time to record Or maybe a time travel function so we can go back to when we had time LOL!
 

I'm happy with SONAR, and especially happy with the direction it's taken in the last year.
 
But I'm not as happy as I'd like to be. I still experience too many audio dropouts on modest projects, especially considering the power of my system. I still get project files that seem to develop a curse of one kind or another; crashes, dropouts, distorted sound, what have you, that can only be fixed (as far as I can tell) by rebuilding the project in another file. This is not by any means a constant set of problems, but they are too frequent for my complete satisfaction.
 
Now I understand very well that it's not reasonable to call this a dissatisfaction with SONAR. It's very clear that DAW performance is a complex phenomenon involving not only the DAW software but my interface, OS, configuration, ALL my hardware, any other software that may be running with or without my knowledge, etc, etc.
 
I didn't start doing this yesterday. More like 25 years ago, not counting pre-computer recording technology. I've built a dozen or more PCs, and researched hardware and setup for audio extensively, not to mention making a sizeable investment in good quality hardware. So if someone tells me increase the audio buffers to reduce ticks or disable my network card, I don't mind at all - always grateful for any attempt to help - but I'm not learning something new.
 
And still weird glitches happen, most of the time completely unresponsive to the standard fixes. And though I may catch flak for this, the bottom line is that this doesn't happen when I run Excel, or PhotoShop, or CyberDirector (OK, Vegas yes...).
 
Forgive the long vent. I love SONAR, and I'm not changing DAWs. For one thing, I've been using it and its predecessors since 1988, for another I have no reason to think there's anything better. But I hope for a day when the probability of the program running and performing exactly as expected is similar to most other software on my computer.
 
 

WOOF !

Yep, I'm happy. Is it perfect? Trouble free? No, but what in life is?

<raises hand>
 
Present!

About 6 or 8 years ago I got totally frustrated with the Cakewalk problems I was experiencing, and I posted something to the effect that I was going to look elsewhere...probably Pro Tools. A few wise souls on this forum kindly advised me to stick around.
 
I'm glad I did. Aside from the many improvements made by Cakewalk, I've gradually learned the program fairly well, and although I still don't consider myself a power user, I can be productive when I want/need to. (Reading this forum is a big help.) And looking back, many of those problems were undoubtedly due to my own inexperience and a computer not properly tweaked.
 
Anyway, 2015 has been the best year ever for Sonar. Is it perfect? No. Will it ever be? No. Is it awesome? Yes.
 
I wish I had a crystal ball and could see what it will be like 5 years from now. Guess I'll just have to continue to stick around.

Anderton

vanceen
I still experience too many audio dropouts on modest projects, especially considering the power of my system.

 
When the dropout toast notification appears, do you click on "help"? The tip in there about buffer I/O ended dropouts once and for all in my system. 

Thanks, Craig.
 
I have clicked on that, but the information there is all familiar to me. My I/O buffers are at 256.
 
I probably sound like an arrogant know it all, but I'm not really. I learn things on this forum all the time from people like you. But when it comes to tweaking, I've been around the block more than a couple of times and I still get weird problems. It hasn't stopped me from finishing a couple of compilations in the last that I'm very happy with, but occasional interruptions remain part of using the software.

I'm in too.  Once strayed to another via cross grade, but was not happy until I came back to Sonar.

mgh
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

Isn't there an app for that? 
 
Count me and my two kitties, Grey Cat and Tudy, as all in.   Happy meows from them.

vanceen
 
I probably sound like an arrogant know it all, but I'm not really. I learn things on this forum all the time from people like you. But when it comes to tweaking, I've been around the block more than a couple of times and I still get weird problems. It hasn't stopped me from finishing a couple of compilations in the last that I'm very happy with, but occasional interruptions remain part of using the software.

 
You really should not be getting lots of dropouts. Do you use AudioSnap? Sometimes all those transients add up, and cleaning out AudioSnap transients really helps performance. 
 

Anderton

vanceen
 
I probably sound like an arrogant know it all, but I'm not really. I learn things on this forum all the time from people like you. But when it comes to tweaking, I've been around the block more than a couple of times and I still get weird problems. It hasn't stopped me from finishing a couple of compilations in the last that I'm very happy with, but occasional interruptions remain part of using the software.

 
You really should not be getting lots of dropouts. Do you use AudioSnap? Sometimes all those transients add up, and cleaning out AudioSnap transients really helps performance. 
 

May I suggest we avoid troubleshooting or problem solving in this thread. I would encourage a new thread to deal with any issues members may have.  It is only a suggestion. 

Sonar works for me. Bugs there will always be, as long as every person has a unique computer (PC and Mac). But CW's level of customer service and willingness to communicate with us is second to none in the DAW business, as far as I can tell. That counts in my book.