For some reasons, I wonder why suddenly what to me is just some sort of a way for me to express my opinion of how to make sonar become the best suddenly and hopefully would be taken as some sort of a positive criticism as far as the soft wares becomes some sort of a "Noli Me Tangere" (Touch me not) thingy as I noticed I am now being construed as some sort of sonar "basher". But then I realized, I am in the Cakewalk forum.
 
Anyway, just to end this. Ok Im wrong. And all of you guys are right. Pro tools sucks and sonar, if ever it has its flaws its because of this and that... Ok I understand. From now on, Ill be shutting my mouth as after all, as what I have posted in my past post, if there is someone to blame here, its me because in spite of my sort of "not so good" experience with sonar, I am still unable to find the way to ditch it. I wha I have said, I just love the software thus I am trying to make my little voice get across so as somehow the software I love can become the best which for sure I would also be really proud. Unfortunately, it seems to me the only way to do it is to join the rest of the guys saying amen to everything. Now I learned my painful lesson. Sorry guys, please just ignore my comment or if you want, you can just delete it. Its utterly rubbish.

too many patches so far.. I'm not buying it yet.. far too many vs the other vendors products I use *AND* they go on after 1 year.. cake seems to want me to buy the next version..
 
really not into paying for patches for 1 year.. only to have most of that year filled with bug fixes. been here since v7.. and  x2.. err yer, was rather lean on patches.
 
 
 

For some reasons, I wonder why suddenly what to me is just some sort of a way for me to express my opinion of how to make sonar become the best suddenly and hopefully would be taken as some sort of a positive criticism as far as the soft wares becomes some sort of a "Noli Me Tangere" (Touch me not) thingy as I noticed I am now being construed as some sort of sonar "basher". But then I realized, I am in the Cakewalk forum.

                                                                              

Fog
too many patches so far..

You can always submit a feature request asking Cakewalk to wait several months and roll all the updates into a single major update. They could call it Sonar X3.5.
 
Personally, I like that they've revived a variant on the "quick fix" solutions they did a while back. If something's fixed, why wait?

Anderton

Fog
too many patches so far..

You can always submit a feature request asking Cakewalk to wait several months and roll all the updates into a single major update. They could call it Sonar X3.5.
 

This is already happening, Sonar X3D contains all previous fixes (all updates rolled into one). So you can skip a few patches if you like if the release schedule is too frequent for you. BTW it's not the patches that are important and the number of them, it's what's within them.
 
BTW Quick fixes were a terrible idea - I bet it slowed down Cakes QA and development no end.... You had to uninstall them afterwards as well before you could install an update... yuk....
 
> x2.. err yer, was rather lean on patches.
 
Yup it's catchup time.... We're probably getting all the patches now that should have been done with X2. Nevermind we live with it, ,  moving forward is the only way to go and it looks entirely unlikely X3 is going to end up like X2... It's already overtaken it in fact. I'd say X3 is the best supported "X" version by far.

nyogisanz

sharke

nyogisanz
 
Indeed Sharke, that's the reason why I said hire "if not the best at least nearing the best programmers who are also musician" not a "decent programmers who are musician" because these two sets of programmers are totally a galaxy apart in my humble opinion ;)
Now I am not saying that all current sonar programmers are lame but I think they just lack the necessary boost to steep up their game.
 
Imagine a new Tascam Sonar , as stable as Pro Tools and cooler than Ableton and Cubase combined that has (for guitarist) a slash button that can provide a slash licks or (for EDM) a skrillex, Diplo, Tiesto button as well. And for the noobs like me (a chord track and Intelligent Composing Assistant ala Cubase 7). I wonder why my mouth is drooling already ;)

A)I think you'll probably find that what separates development on things like Pro Tools as compared to Sonar is the available budget, which is bound to be a lot larger with Pro Tools and other software that has a large market share than Sonar. In fact all things considered, I think the Bakers have done a pretty amazing job. I started out with Pro Tools and found it to be a lot less stable than my experience with Sonar, in fact I ended up having to host VSTi's in Reaper and ReWire them into Pro Tools because I was getting so many crashes. Add to this the many extremely cool features that Sonar has and I can quite honestly say it's a superior program with far more bang for its buck. 
 
C) What are these Skrillex/Tiesto buttons you envision? Mark my words, if the Bakers were ever to incorporate such a button into Sonar then I would skip all upgrades until such time as they removed it 
 
As for Intelligent Composing Assistants and the like, well of course there are a plethora of cool features that could theoretically be added to any DAW that didn't have them. But the reality is that no DAW has every single feature that everyone could possibly want. You just have to pick the one that offers you the most of what you want out of a DAW. B)If any Intelligent Composing Assistant is more important to you than the other features that Sonar offers, then I guess choose Cubase. 

Reply to point A
Well don't you think the underlined statement of yours now begs the question why do you think Pro Tools as what you have said, has grown to have the bigger market shares viz-a-viz profit hence able them to say as what you subliminally implied, hire the best programmers. Isn't it because of their known stability and quality? Now if your answer is yes, well I think to further discuss the matter would be moot and academic already. Nonetheless I wont bar you from stating the otherwise as what you have said and I quote, "you first started with pro tools and pro tools seem to be this and that ....." However, I think what you seems to have over-looked is the fact that yes, granting for the sake of argument, pro tools was once like that, but somehow (no matter how we deny this fact) Pro Tools was able to steep up their game hence now the industries standards. Common Sharke, you cant be the thing to beat for nothing right?
And this is precisely my point for my post. Yes the bakers have done pretty job but hey "pretty" is subjective and what "pretty" to you may not be pretty to others. And toying on this point further, the problem here is what if the pretty as far as you are concerned aren't shared by others. This, in this case, surely the loosing party wouldn't be you but cakewalk. Indeed if you love the company, you love the software, the more you have to require them to tighten their grounds. Otherwise, loose more market shares. I'm sure you are also visiting other threads and usually the common complains of "used to be" cakewalk fanatics like us are the same thing most of the guys here are saying. In fact I can imagine them perhaps they were once like me, or you, whose so loyal and devoted to cakewalk. But they have come to their breaking point. Indeed, I have nothing wrong with cakewalk, I just want them to steep up their game because if pro tools was able to do it, the more they can, considering they have better idea of what a DAW should be (best example is the floating boxes that you can transfer to other monitors and the pro channels).
 
I believe Pro tools did also start with few software programmers and everything. But I think what departs them from what I see as far as the bakers are concerned, are pro tools commitment to their product. Although its just me but cakewalks ditching of X2a and as attested by many howling members in the forum about a bug from old old version of sonars becoming a zombie to a newer version are (although its just me) tell tale signs of something in cakewalk as compared to pro tools tenacity to stay in 32 bit until such time they can create something as stable as most of their 32 bit flat form in 64bit flat form. Yes we may argue, the 64bit of pro tools has also its shares of its imperfection but the mere fact that in spite of it, a lot of established studios, musicians etc are trusting this product means only one thing, it is stable.
 
Reply to point B
Assuming for the sake of argument the Intelligent Chord Assistant is really important to me as admittedly and I am not embarrassed to admit that I don't have proper music education, does it already justify the point of going to Cubase? Well unless otherwise you speak in behalf of the bakers and that you can categorically state the fact for them that they are all clueless as far as how Cubase did it and there is no way for them to be able to figure out how to create similar apps in sonar, well I think that's the only time I might consider for if that is the case, that can be very much revealing as far as the status of the company.
 
I assume, I regret If I am wrong, that this statement of yours was made on the presumption that I have lost my confidence in the bakers. Well if you have to read and understand my post, I even stated there that I still have high hopes blah blah for cakewalk. Indeed this is precisely the reason for this request because I know they can make a better one. But on the other hand, it appears to me though that its you who are loosing faith on cakewalk because assuming for the sake of argument you have faith in them, then why shoo away a noob like me to another DAW just for one aspect, well in fact you know the bakers can do a much better one.
 
Reply to Point C
Correct me If I am wrong Sharke but are you an FBI or work for the secret service for it seems to me humor is not part of your dictionary. What's so wrong with stating the infamous "Talent" button in another way. Nevertheless if to you and to others these may not seem appealing or humorous as it somehow decreases your mojo, well my apology. Indeed I am pretty much aware that with a seasoned musician like you, to use such things would be insulting. In fact Im pretty sure this is also the reason why to you my simple request of having an Intelligent Composing Assistant is some sort of gibberish. But hey, market strategy wise, how many seasoned musicians are there only in the world as compared to those noobs like me who would so really appreciate such buttons if ever (in fact even a seasoned pro tool users want this as well in pro tools http://www.protoolerblog.com/2012/11/15/what-pro-tools-could-learn-from-cubase-7/). Think about the possibility.
 
To end, pls don't consider this reply as some sort of getting personal. I don't have plans of getting personal into someone whom I know one of these days, I would be asking for an advice into more technical details as far as this soft ware is concerned. Indeed I understand your point Sharke and I know we all love Sonar. I just regret that we are coming from a different vantage. In your case, a more liberal and some sort of consenting ,and in my case, sort of conservative and unconsenting but still understanding manner. Nevertheless, I think our common goal is just the same, to make sonar become the thing to beat in the modern music making scene. Hence with this, Id like to close this thing between us as far as this thread only ;) Peace!

You say you're not an English major, but really that isn't the problem. The problem is that you're being verbose and ornate to the point that it takes way more effort than it should to extract the essentials of your argument. 
 
To pick a point at random though - I'm well aware that by a "Tiesto button" you meant something general along the lines of a talent button. It's not that I don't have a sense of humor, it's that you explicitly asked us -in the course of a post about how Cakewalk could "step up their game" - to imagine a Sonar which has such a feature. My point is that Sonar is not that kind of program and that I'm glad that they don't waste resources by developing pointless gimmicks like that.
 
There are a million and one features which could be introduced into Sonar in order to attract a different market. How about inbuilt piano lessons? How about an automatic lyric generator? How about some BIAB style virtual musicians? Finite budgets mean that developing any one of those things would be at the expense of some other aspect of Sonar. And what you gain in new users you would lose in users who previously chose Sonar because of those other things. The decisions that Cakewalk make with regard what to develop and what not to develop, are what makes Sonar and are why we choose it over other DAW's. Personally I chose it over Pro Tools (about 18 months ago) because I preferred the workflow, felt that it offered way more bang for the buck and like I said, was many times more stable on my machine. I had Pro Tools corrupt projects to the point of me having to abandon them. I couldn't go 30 minutes without a crash. I couldn't use all of my memory because it was 32 bit. I didn't like editing MIDI as much as I do in Sonar. So I could just as easily visit the Pro Tools forums and tell them to "step up their game." I choose not to, because I realize that there are a lot of people who use Pro Tools and love it. What would be the point? 

Cakewalk haven't ditched [link=mailto:X@a]X[/link]2a, they've released X3 and provided 4 patches already. And the upgrade is half the price of the Protools 10 to 11. I've spent 10x more on beat, loops, and plugins than on the DAW software. I would happily pay $150 a year or so for an annual subscription to use SONAR as long as the improvements keep coming.
 
If someone wants to develop an Intelligent Composing Assistant for noobs that's fine. It can create midi files and be used with any DAW. Having said that, there is no substitute for talent and knowledge.

nyogisanz
For some reasons, I wonder why suddenly what to me is just some sort of a way for me to express my opinion of how to make sonar become the best suddenly and hopefully would be taken as some sort of a positive criticism as far as the soft wares becomes some sort of a "Noli Me Tangere" (Touch me not) thingy as I noticed I am now being construed as some sort of sonar "basher". But then I realized, I am in the Cakewalk forum.
 
Anyway, just to end this. Ok Im wrong. And all of you guys are right. Pro tools sucks and sonar, if ever it has its flaws its because of this and that... Ok I understand. From now on, Ill be shutting my mouth as after all, as what I have posted in my past post, if there is someone to blame here, its me because in spite of my sort of "not so good" experience with sonar, I am still unable to find the way to ditch it. I wha I have said, I just love the software thus I am trying to make my little voice get across so as somehow the software I love can become the best which for sure I would also be really proud. Unfortunately, it seems to me the only way to do it is to join the rest of the guys saying amen to everything. Now I learned my painful lesson. Sorry guys, please just ignore my comment or if you want, you can just delete it. Its utterly rubbish.

Perfect.  Now you can join the Cakewalk Forum Club.

cowboydan
I believe that protools 11 is the bottleneck of the whole daw industrie. I say this because protools (hd) was big in the industrie with their printed circuits in the computer, dsp etc. They also had protools le as a starting point to learn about the program. the le version was in my view a disaster waiting to happen.
Now that protools is on a level playing field, meaning all daws working in the computer without the circuit boards, they also have a lot of work to do. The last poll into the daw world put sonar in third place behind FL and Ableton and left protools at 2% of the voting. If this is the magestic daw you are talking about then I really think you need to learn how to swim, because protools is sinking fast.

Pro Tools is NOT sinking fast. I'm not sure what poll you're talking about, but if it's an online poll of "pick what DAW you use" than it has no bearing on the actual user base size of each DAW, all it would tell you is how many users of one DAW participated in that survey. Whenever one of these comes up, you'll see posts in here saying "Hey, there's a DAW survey, let's make Sonar #1." Stuff like that would easily and heavily skew survey results.
 
I've seen various developers discuss this at different times, and they'll consistently tell you that Pro Tools, Logic, and Cubase are still the top 3 DAWs (I believe in that order). Sonar, Live, Fruity Loops, Studio One, and Reaper all have enough users that you want to make sure you support them, but have much smaller marketshare. Other DAWs have even less than those.