Vab
 
... I am not interested in producing those ideas to become a pop star, I'm interested in producing them because I want to...

This. Thanks for posting.
 
Regards,

I did the [at least semi-] pop star thing back in the 60s...three albums, toured, played Carnegie Hall, headlined as well as opened for a bunch of headliners, blah blah blah. Also did a lot of session work in the 70s, and in the 80s, had a string of successes with several new age albums...had some cuts on dance music compilations in the 90s. I consider it freakishly lucky that I even got that far, because my musical tastes are not really mass market.
 
So, much of my career even when I was doing music revolved around music in some way. That includes doing music for multiple industrial, product, tutorial, and kiosk videos using Sonar, as well as two movies (not family friendly...but hey, my neighbors had this deadline, the original guy canceled, and the pay was great). So maybe I wouldn't be able to score "Lord of the Ring Modulators, Episode IV" with Sonar, but for everyday video work and YouTube releases, it does what I need.
 
IF you check out the YouTube channel in my sig, the music videos are nothing but Sonar + Vegas, and the videos were really done just to provide some visuals while the music was playing...I was able to put them together really fast.
 
Many of the musicians I know who use DAWs are into the direct-to-fan thing. I think they're making more bucks than I did selling a quarter million albums...

Interesting how the thread has evolved. Perhaps the answer is in the acronym DAW. Sonar is a DAW. It is not a DVW. It can host video for scoring while composing original content, though. Can a user use it for making quality music for whatever the purpose? 
 
I think the answer is rather apparent and to belabor the point is rather senseless.   Nor can I fathom the purpose of the questions being asked. No one on this forum that is a Sonar user will ever say it wont be able to produce great quality music. I'm pretty sure that if this were asked on any forum dedicated to music or the use of computers in such an endeavor would answer any differently.
 
My conclusion is that this thread is a royal waste of time and server space. 
 
 
 
 

John
Interesting how the thread has evolved. Perhaps the answer is in the acronym DAW. Sonar is a DAW. It is not a DVW. It can host video for scoring while composing original content, though. Can a user use it for making quality music for whatever the purpose? 
 
I think the answer is rather apparent and to belabor the point is rather senseless.   Nor can I fathom the purpose of the questions being asked. No one on this forum that is a Sonar user will ever say it wont be able to produce great quality music. I'm pretty sure that if this were asked on any forum dedicated to music or the use of computers in such an endeavor would answer any differently.
 
My conclusion is that this thread is a royal waste of time and server space. 

I'll quote the late, great John Simonton as a summary: "Give a real musician two spoons, and he'll make music."

I think I smell a red herring, or troll.
 

Spoons would work.

But they better be bloody 64 bit precision engine spoons.... otherwise I want a refund...

I notice that there is not one softsynth that emulates spoons. Not one.
I see a gap in the market.

John
Interesting how the thread has evolved. Perhaps the answer is in the acronym DAW. Sonar is a DAW. It is not a DVW.

Man, beat me to the punch! At least I read the whole thread before I blurted out "What does DAW stand for anyway?"
 
I am not sure if this thread evolved or just meandered errantly... first the thread title, then video, and then "market share"... I got caught up in morbid rubber-necking on this thread maybe.
 
And... I cannot get X3 to change my oil... what's up with that?

I wonder if the Ford forums have people asking why their Ford Mustang isn't a Chevrolet SUV?