• SONAR
  • "Sonar was just fighting me the whole way!!!"
2014/01/22 01:26:41
djoni
Check this video…start at about 4 minutes...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4RbG5HcWk
 
"Sonar was just fighting me the whole way!!!"
"Then I open reaper and within about 30 - 60 minutes and I had all the inputs and outputs setup correctly..."
"and wow…(I have got sound lol)…I can get a stereo signal on a mono input which sonar couldn't do…"
 
WTF. What is this guy trying to say? LOL
2014/01/22 02:39:21
SuperG
Bah - fat guy with a guitar... Snoooooooze...
2014/01/22 03:05:42
mettelus
SuperG
Bah - fat guy with a guitar... Snoooooooze...

LOL... one of the comments posted to his video was "Holy crap, Steve! Looking good, brother! You lost a lot of weight, congrats! Nice guitar, too!"
 
It is a interesting comparison of GR5 vs TH2... I have not used TH2 enough yet to give it a fair shake, but I so like GR5's UI more.
 
Not sure what to make of his SONAR fighting him the whole way comment...
2014/01/22 03:09:07
djoni
SuperG,
LOL
From the video, I like the TH2 sound more…Guess I have to give it a try in a few tracks (not a guitarist myself…)
I often use GR5 and Amplitube3.
 
mettelus
SuperG
Bah - fat guy with a guitar... Snoooooooze...

LOL... one of the comments posted to his video was "Holy crap, Steve! Looking good, brother! You lost a lot of weight, congrats! Nice guitar, too!"
 
It is a interesting comparison of GR5 vs TH2... I have not used TH2 enough yet to give it a fair shake, but I so like GR5s UI more.




2014/01/22 09:36:27
chuckebaby
ive seen his vid's before, he should just stick to playing guitar.
and let someone else set up his inputs.
2014/01/22 11:05:46
Beepster
Well I didn't watch the vid and I do very much love Sonar (when it's working which X3 seems to be working almost flawlessly) I would not exactly say it's the easiest to use or most intuitive program out there. Now that I know my way around it it really is amazing and I'm getting a lot of cool stuff done as well as having a bit of a creative renaissance due to all the tools and goodies BUT it took a looooong time for me just to grasp the basics... and I still have a buttload more things I need to do intensive studies on. Granted I may not be the sharpest bowling ball in the sea but in comparison I managed to record and mix an entire album in my old DAW (which shall, as always, remain nameless) without ever opening a manual or watching/reading any kind of tutorials. I just kind of poked around until things worked and within a few months I had something deemed releasable by my bandmates, engineering friends and an industry respected mastering guy who offered to polish the stereo waves for FREE because he liked it so much (I personally thought it sucked once I took it out of my own studio to other systems but whatever).
 
So if the sole point is that Sonar is a little difficult to use then I kind of have to agree, to a point. Once you know where stuff is it is actually quite a bit easier but getting to that level of understanding is a little tedious and frustrating.
 
Once those barriers are overcome though it does seem to be very conducive to actual creativity as opposed to just another sterile means to record one's material. It's almost like it is an instrument itself and must be learned like an instrument to really unlock its potential.
 
Just my take on it... not that anyone asked. ;-)
2014/01/22 11:21:33
John
I don't know. Sonar is not hard to use or figure out. What is troublesome for me is why it took him 30 to 60 min. to set it up in Reaper? If that is true I think perhaps working with Sonar might be too easy for him. One clue is a remark about mono to stereo. He may not understand much about Sonar.
2014/01/22 11:32:31
Splat
No one should have to read the manual or learn.It should just happen by magic. Instead time is much better spent videoing and complaining ;) If one declares oneself as an expert then one is an expert and software should work around an expert ;)
2014/01/22 11:34:12
Beepster
Ah but, John you have been with the program for a long time and had the benefit of learning the more "creative" methods and features. It seems many of the other DAWs I've seen featured in general tuts or poked around at myself more or less follow some basic fundamentals based around the PT way of doing things (except things like FL or Ableton) which is kind of based on old analog studios which obviously go back even further. So coming from that foundation and into the X series totally fresh... well it can be somewhat confusing.
 
However this guy could just be a dumbass (but again I did not watch the vid). I was confused by the basic input routing for all of 15-20 minutes and it was clear sailing from then (in that regard). I don't think I even had to harass the forum over that one. lol
2014/01/22 11:35:34
Splat
Oh you didn't tell me he was a guitarist.... What were you expecting 
 
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