Digital Performer is Now Available for Windows. Big Deal?

Rain


Posted on the "other" software forum. 

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2824611


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I used to say "the only good thing about Macs is that you can run Digital Performer on them". 
 
I am not familiar with DP

jsg
In terms of notation, the only real problem with Sonar notation, I believe, is with the display of tied and dotted triplets and 64th notes and 32nd triplets.  They don't display properly, never did.  The good news is the play back accurately so it's more a graphic annoyance rather than anything that prevents composing in the staff view. 
 
JG
www.ottavarecords.com
 
   

Tom Riggs


You can also enable "allow midi recording without an armed track" in sonar midi preferences. this will record midi on the active track during playback as I understand it. Although I do not use it. Also when a midi record is enabled during record the midi clip will not be created until the first note is played.

vintagevibe

jsg
In terms of notation, the only real problem with Sonar notation, I believe, is with the display of tied and dotted triplets and 64th notes and 32nd triplets.  They don't display properly, never did.  The good news is the play back accurately so it's more a graphic annoyance rather than anything that prevents composing in the staff view. 

JG
www.ottavarecords.com

  

There are a host of showstopping deficiencies in the staff view.  Inability to correctly handle tuplets, incorrect enharmonics, bizarre default groupings that take huge amounts of time to correct... If the forum search worked you could find pages and pages of issues with staff view.  Sonar staff view in amateurish and barely usable for serious work compared to Cubase, DP, Logic and Protools.

jsg

vintagevibe

jsg
In terms of notation, the only real problem with Sonar notation, I believe, is with the display of tied and dotted triplets and 64th notes and 32nd triplets.  They don't display properly, never did.  The good news is the play back accurately so it's more a graphic annoyance rather than anything that prevents composing in the staff view. 

JG
www.ottavarecords.com

  

There are a host of showstopping deficiencies in the staff view.  Inability to correctly handle tuplets, incorrect enharmonics, bizarre default groupings that take huge amounts of time to correct... If the forum search worked you could find pages and pages of issues with staff view.  Sonar staff view in amateurish and barely usable for serious work compared to Cubase, DP, Logic and Protools.

I've been working in the staff view since Cakewalk first introduced it and have produced 12 CDs with it, so I pretty much can say I know a lot about its deficits.  Incorrect harmonics is subjective, it depends upon whether you're working chromatically, but granted, they could be easier to change.  I detect that you expect the staff view to be a notation/printing aspect of Sonar, where I've always expected it to be only a MIDI input and editing tool.  All my scores are done in Sibelius after importing an SMF into it, which is where I clean up the notation and bring it up to professional standards.   As a midi inputing and editing tool, the staff view is not too bad, although DPs is better.  Cubase?  Not so sure, I worked with it for several weeks and found it very cumbersome, more options than Sonar, but also complicated in terms of getting the music to look right.  Oh, by the way, I just finished my 8th symphony and it is most definitely a "serious work"--all done in the staff view.  I'll let you be the judge on whether it is possible to do serious work in Sonar:  www.cdbaby.com/jerrygerber4
 
JG
www.jerrygerber.com
 
 
 

pbognar

jsg

vintagevibe

jsg
In terms of notation, the only real problem with Sonar notation, I believe, is with the display of tied and dotted triplets and 64th notes and 32nd triplets.  They don't display properly, never did.  The good news is the play back accurately so it's more a graphic annoyance rather than anything that prevents composing in the staff view. 

JG
www.ottavarecords.com

  

There are a host of showstopping deficiencies in the staff view.  Inability to correctly handle tuplets, incorrect enharmonics, bizarre default groupings that take huge amounts of time to correct... If the forum search worked you could find pages and pages of issues with staff view.  Sonar staff view in amateurish and barely usable for serious work compared to Cubase, DP, Logic and Protools.

I've been working in the staff view since Cakewalk first introduced it and have produced 12 CDs with it, so I pretty much can say I know a lot about its deficits.  Incorrect harmonics is subjective, it depends upon whether you're working chromatically, but granted, they could be easier to change.  I detect that you expect the staff view to be a notation/printing aspect of Sonar, where I've always expected it to be only a MIDI input and editing tool.  All my scores are done in Sibelius after importing an SMF into it, which is where I clean up the notation and bring it up to professional standards.   As a midi inputing and editing tool, the staff view is not too bad, although DPs is better.  Cubase?  Not so sure, I worked with it for several weeks and found it very cumbersome, more options than Sonar, but also complicated in terms of getting the music to look right.  Oh, by the way, I just finished my 8th symphony and it is most definitely a "serious work"--all done in the staff view.  I'll let you be the judge on whether it is possible to do serious work in Sonar:  www.cdbaby.com/jerrygerber4
 
JG
www.jerrygerber.com
 
 
 

@jsg - sounds like you've moved from Sonar 7.0.2 to X2a based on your post above.
 
Any tips/advise for inputting and editing MIDI data in the X2a staff view?

jsg

I've been working in the staff view since Cakewalk first introduced it and have produced 12 CDs with it, so I pretty much can say I know a lot about its deficits.  Incorrect harmonics is subjective, it depends upon whether you're working chromatically, but granted, they could be easier to change.  I detect that you expect the staff view to be a notation/printing aspect of Sonar, where I've always expected it to be only a MIDI input and editing tool.  All my scores are done in Sibelius after importing an SMF into it, which is where I clean up the notation and bring it up to professional standards.   As a midi inputing and editing tool, the staff view is not too bad, although DPs is better.  Cubase?  Not so sure, I worked with it for several weeks and found it very cumbersome, more options than Sonar, but also complicated in terms of getting the music to look right.  Oh, by the way, I just finished my 8th symphony and it is most definitely a "serious work"--all done in the staff view.  I'll let you be the judge on whether it is possible to do serious work in Sonar:  www.cdbaby.com/jerrygerber4
 
JG
www.jerrygerber.com