It seems that almost everyone here has had some experience with Cubase like I've had and some of you have even upgraded to Cubase 4 before turning to Sonar! Amazing! I actually like Cubase SX. Like I said before, on this forum subject, I bought Sonar 7 because I didn't want to risk upgrading to Cubase 4. I think Cubase 4 has become too complicated. Too many features added too soon to not have many bugs! Steinberg had a good thing going with SX. They could have made it better before changing to version 4. If I have anything to do with Cubase it will be my SX 3 for now.

After working with analog synthesizers and tape recorders from the seventies through the mid-eighties, I made the switch to MIDI around 1985. My first computer was an Atari 1040ST, which I upgraded at some point to 4Meg of RAM! My sequencer software was Creator/Notator from C-Lab. C-lab become eMagic and Creator/Notator became Notator Logic, which was absolutely brilliant once you got used to it. Unfortunately, the Atari platform went belly-up, so I tried Logic on the PC (a Mac being way to expensive for me at the time). The Windows implementation wasn't very good and when Apple bought eMagic, support for Windows was completely dropped.

Maybe around 1996, I moved to Cakewalk (version 6) and I have stayed with Cakewalk/Sonar ever since. The reason I choose Cakewalk over Cubase or something is that it is exclusively developed for the Windows platform, so I assumed they know what they are doing. This after my very bad experience with the "multi-platform" Logic.

I switched from Pro Tools after having purchased both Sonar and Pro Tools running on two different brand new Dell Computers. I had two former students one was a Pro Tools man another Sonar Man.. I had them both demo what they were doing and how they accomplished their best tracks... SONAR won me over hands down.. Unlimited tracks and the interface were the main reasons.. no dongle and stability.

I am now running Sonar 7 and have also the 64 bit version installed on my dual core laptop with 4 gigs of Ram.

My third CD Chase the Sunset was recorded entirely on Sonar and reached the top 50 Smooth Jazz Charts.. Received airplay all over the US and other countries. It was released a year ago and I tend to go back and listen for clarity and the general quality of the sound. I have to admit that when I A/B against other CD's by major artist in my genre my CD is as clean as any I've compared... and I A/B against the best - Dave Koz, Rick Braun, Peter White, Four Play, Norman Brown...

My mixing is still a little bit under the top major level but the quality of sound that I get out of SONAR is as good as any Pro Tools HD project I've heard. My CD is available on Itunes - Rhapsody and through CD baby... Some songs are available for free download at www.billmcgeemusic.com.

SONAR is here to stay.... Bill McGee - Jazz Trumpeter and Multi-Instrumentalist.

I just ordered the SPS250 with studio and the vvocal add on and am ecstatic about the deal I got 169 on a non factroy sealed item and I will upgrade and purchase the PE upgrade online tomorrow so I'll get $50 off the upgrade. Never really used anything else I'm a total newbie but I'm pretty computer savvy so i don't think I'll be bugging you too much here at least I hope not.

I've been using Cubase since the Atari days and in recent years thought that the costs and functionality of Cubase were going in a different direction to my own home-producer aspirations. Out of all the DAWs, Live and Sonar seemed the most forward-thinking and streamlined, but time-saving features like ACT sold Sonar to me. I've been out of practice for a year but a new studio room and new PC left me thinking there were only two major steps to take; new monitors and new software. I just bought Sonar...the speakers will probably have to wait until next year.

Another thing that impressed me about Sonar is that I really can get 2ms latency with my soundcard, and I never got less than 9 with Cubase. This just shows me how efficient it is, and I can't wait to try maxing out my quad core.

Hello

Any of you coming from Nuendo? and if so , why? because i have been thinking going there.

I am joining the Sonar set after years of using Cubase.

Making music is just a hobby for me though and I don't have any real aspiration for it to be anything more.
I never minded Cubase but there was something about it that sucked the fun out of making music.
I have also use Live but don't really like making music the way the developers had decided I should make it, with everything else being a chore. It is still fun for live stuff though.

Having used the demo of Sonar over the last week I have found that I am having fun again, it is all very intuitive (for the most part) and I hope will allow me to finish a track or two in the future.

Once upon a time there was a schoolboy named Stevvy...

jk.

long story short,

went to school for audio, learned on protools. was convinced protools was the best and only pro options. so i got an LE system (002 factory) and slowly but surely realized LE is not pro anything.

stumbled onto SONAR. been hooked since. couldn't find my way without it since i live on a submarine.

That winter I used my 002 as a sled. WEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee!

My first proper recording software was Cakewalk Pro Audio 8. A friend of mine turned me unto it, and I liked it right away. To keep up with the times I later got the SONAR 6 that I used for a short while. Now I use SONAR 7 Producer Edition and truly feel its the best recording tool I have ever used. Have tried Cubase and similar software, but haven`t really gotten into `em. I`m a "Cakewalk guy" so to speak, so the way S7PE works and looks fits me like a glove!

Hello you lot!

I'm another uk user of Sonar. I've been with you since Pro audio 6 all the way to Sonar 7. Thay always find new things to stick in that are handy. I had one night a week where i would go round to my friends house to do music who also had Sonar and is still a long time member of Cakewalk. He to is up to Sonar 6. Anyway were where we? Oh yes! There was a third member who was a Cubase fan so we would TRY and do a track in Cubase and things would just go wrong ALL the time. We would spend more time finding out what the prob was and end up doing no music at all.

So one day I just said "THATS IT! I've had it with this F***ing Cubase and as of right now it will no longer be used" Jason was a bit put out by this for a couple of reasons 1. He didn't play anything that well so doing the recording side was his job of the night. 2. He didn't know how to use Sonar AND it felt a bit like batting for the other side. But it was tuff S**t. That night I got Sonar up, Showed Jayson how to get going on it.(Witch took all of 5 mins) And we got a song together.

I run my own recording studio and have always had Sonar as my main DAW host. I run Sonar 7 on a Q6600 clocked at 3.2 with 4 gig of 1066 ram. I've never had such a high track count. One project I'm working on at the moment has 15 softsyths YES 15! plus the audio parts like Bass and guitar. the syths are no light wights ether. I'm running rapture, Dimention pro, BFD2,Z3ta,Vanguard PLUS EQ's Compressors alsorts of stuff.
Not had to freeze anything. It run all four cores at 38%. The audio cards are RME digi9636 x2. Oh and NO lag playing the soft syths. It set to 6Ms.

Anyway it's ace and you should all be proud of being a Cakewalk owner.
Well done for switching............................

Oh I've used Pro tool and it's not that good. there is nothing you can't do in Sonar that you can do in pro tool or the others big one.



So!
1. easy to use.
2. as good if not better then other DAW host
3. You don't need to know any more about it. If you have not got it or use it BUY IT AND USE IT.

You can have a listern to some of the stuff I have done with Sonar on my myspace site.
www.myspace.com/bigbiggrin