What about the late great Ray Charles?

Happy Love Sick by Shifty Shellshock was on Maverick Records/Capitol, done completely on Sonar Producer.

That's very cool Lance. But I think we're talking more Billboard-level international hits here, or at least the studios and engineers who record that level of work.

Show me a Daughtry, or Nickleback or Beyonce etc track done in Sonar and I'll be impressed.

And people say it's because they're used to a certain DAW etc etc. I think to insult the biggest ears in the world by saying they use a particular system because they're used to it is pathetic. We're talking about people like Mutt Lange and Bob Rock, to name two of the biggest producers in the history of music. Why in the world would such great minds fall for "an industry standard" if it isn't any good? I keep asking myself why these guys knowingly and willingly work on a particular format? They don't have to, and they don't have to pay for gear either. Yet they always come back to that other DAW, when they're not using tape.

I'm not knocking Sonar (I love the damn thang), but I think people should really check the stats and look at the real picture for a change. Sonar is not in the big league, and that's just a statistical fact. The next question then is why..

LJB

Sonar is not in the big league, and that's just a statistical fact. The next question then is why..

why? 

because something else was there for a long time in the studios before Sonar.

sonar is getting peoples attention more and more these days but a lot of studios invested buku bucks into pro tools rigs and the industry went with it.

Now there are more very good options, but the studios and industry have for the most part stuck with the way things have been for a long time, and a lot of newer companies here pro tools quickly as it has been so prominent before other good options came.

Also, again, because pro tools has been around and prominent so long, "pro tools" is what the average music person often refers any DAW being called.

I, for one, am glad i was exposed to other options when I got into setting up a DAW some years ago.

Lance

LJB


But I think we're talking more Billboard-level international hits here, or at least the studios and engineers who record that level of work.

The OP didn't specify, and hasn't said more despite being asked for clarification. Which makes me think the OP's initial question wasn't serious and/or sincere but just pot-stirring, meaning I'm gone.

or maybe because of the name? Pro Tools implies pro usage, so cakewalk could change Sonar to Sonar Pro ;)

Well, it's been fun. 'Hope no one got hurt.. I'm off to bed as its 1am here. Nite.

lolz CRYPT-

nice John.

Who the heck is Paul Oakenfield and Public Enemy?

Paul Oakenfold and Public Enemy are, to cut to he brass tacks of the OP's question, millionaires who've been making music and touring the world for well over two decades.

We all pride ourselves in knowing obscure artists such as Paul Oakenfield but I know what LJB is saying. He's talking bigtime artists that are household names.

another good point kc.

I have...on several occasions...made the international rock star, futurist and self-absorbed navel gazer Peter Gabriel physically distressed utlilizing Sonar...if that counts.  Plus I've earned my living using it for many, many years.