JR Totem at least. Not sure about others.

jscomposer
I don't know of any pro level engineers pumping out major label stuff with Sonar

Well, I'm no star name or anything, but engineering and production is what I do for a living, and I've got stuff out on both Universal and Polydor, done in Sonar.

As an aside, I've never dealt with anyone from a label, major or indie, who asks what software you use. It just doesn't come up. The artists are sometimes interested (and sometimes not).

VigilantSound
Sanderxpanda: You say hits have been made on every DAW out there? It would be interesting to see a few examples..
 
I realize that a "hit" is subjective but I would consider anything that has went gold to be a hit or even winning an Grammy. I think audio for video games wouldn't count unless it had an actual music hit our sound track.
 
I know that Ricky Martin's living la Vito loco was said to be the first track mixed completely ITB in Pro Tools and become a "hit"
 
Ableton has skrillex who has won a Grammy.. (edit- auto spell doesn't like ableton)
 
I googled hits recorded with pro tools and also hits recorded in sonar but didn't find much.
 
Can anyone verify any "hits" made Sonar or any other DAW?
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Dead Maus uses FL Studio.  Southern style trap is made almost exclusively in FL studio too and much of that stuff is platinum selling.  I think it's safe to say that hits have been made on most major DAWS at least at the tracking and composing level.  Most of those trap songs end up in Pro Tools for final mixing and mastering.

Still all that stuff is mostly electronic and sample based...
 
I'm really curios about rock music, ya know live drums tracked in Sonar,...
 
JohnT: Are any of your releases live tracked drums and guitars and such?
 
I also make a living strictly through music and production and mixing FOH... at my home studio I use Sonar pretty exclusively but in any of the more pro studios I work in its all pro tools, so if I bring it home to mix I usually keep it in PT..
 
I would still love to here an example of a billboard ranking track that was tracked live with Sonar! There has to be someone on here who has done it!!
Or anyone on this forum have a Grammy? That would be cool too...

I've no idea, myself. I'll tell you what, there are tens of thousands of records made in ProTools that weren't hits and didn't win Grammys.

The question doesn't really make sense to me, I have to say. I mean, tracking in Sonar and tracking in anything else are exactly the same. Whatever comes in through the mics and the outboard goes down to the hard drive as uncompressed audio data.

VigilantSound
 
JohnT: Are any of your releases live tracked drums and guitars and such?
 

Sorry, missed this question somehow.
 
Yes, though only indie label stuff so far. More accurately, I have a mobile recording rig, which isn't computer-based, and I track with that onto a Fostex DV2424LV. Sometimes overdubs are done later in Sonar. And the mixing is done in Sonar.
 
When I say "mobile" I don't mean a live recording thing. I've got a thing going where I go and record bands in interesting non-studio places, and I've got a couple of boxes of stuff that turn a room into a temporary studio.

I know something I did that was a worldwide hit done on Cakewalk 3.01 (I now know approximately the Cakewalk version number thanks to recent posts and screenshots) but if I told you for who or what it was I might never hear the end of it (those were the days when you didn't have to reset your plugins as you didn't have any). It was just used as a synth pad with MIDI clock in this instance. In my day the hits were churned out on 2".