Yeah i just switched from Cubase today after years and ordered Sonar 8 Producer today....be here in the morning so can't wait to install..
Rob Lee

I just dare people to turn on that 64Bit engine AND let the audio also render in 64Bit .
At the end just bounce the whole Mix with 64 Bit so that you have a 64 Bit wav Mix -THEN
compare-----its a dream!!!!!! American Technology.

I had some discusions about the 64 Bit master Mix --- when you compare a 64 Bit bounce to something else you will hear a nice improvement while the 64 Bit master plays --- but when working and turning the 64 Bit feature on and off , no diffeerence in Audio quality can yet be heard ---- THE MIX IS THE WHOLE MAGIC PEOPLE OF SOUND!!!!!
But its a nice moment every time when i enter my friends Logic equiped studio , and then be able to realy feel the great sound advantages of Sonar over Logic- Before i thought mixes that sound as good as Sonars , are only possible with very expensive outboard hardware --thanks God i was wrong. The fact of the highest possible soundquality in a DAW has enlightened my ears completely - It is such a Joy to listen to Sounds and Music created with Sonar, thanks a lot for that!


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I used Reaper for about 8 months. Reaper was my first real experience with a DAW. While using Reaper I found that my CPU just wasn't up to speed so I set out to build a PC that would handle recording. After building my PC a friend suggested that I give Sonar a try and the rest is history.....I am now using Sonar 8 PE and at this point I don't think I'll ever use a different DAW,......Sonar rocks!!

ORIGINAL: BTU

Howdy,

I didn't switch. I just bought Sonar straight off the shelf.

Not knowing anything, I was trying to buy Pro Tools. But the salesman at Pro Tools was so haughty that I bought Sonar instead.

BTU

LOL,...awesome!! The cool thing about Sonar is you can use any soundcard or interface you want.

I went away from Sonar earlier this year and tried Cubase, but apart from Cubase's arrangement facility I don't think its in the same league, especially if you are starting out or on a budget. As an example I just wrote and recorded a short midi strings quartet using Sonar 7 and the tools and plugins that came with Sonar 7 and nothing more. To me it sounds so real, even though I'm a noob at this. (Can be heard here Short Quartet)

With Cubase I can't even get close to the above. To do so would involve spending another £400 plus just to get the right sound. I can't believe that off the shelf, with nothing else other than a computer, one can generate such sounds.

I've done with my flirting, I'm staying with Sonar

RobP

ORIGINAL: robapol

I went away from Sonar earlier this year and tried Cubase, but apart from Cubase's arrangement facility I don't think its in the same league, especially if you are starting out or on a budget. As an example I just wrote and recorded a short midi strings quartet using Sonar 7 and the tools and plugins that came with Sonar 7 and nothing more. To me it sounds so real, even though I'm a noob at this. (Can be heard here Short Quartet)

With Cubase I can't even get close to the above. To do so would involve spending another £400 plus just to get the right sound. I can't believe that off the shelf, with nothing else other than a computer, one can generate such sounds.

I've done with my flirting, I'm staying with Sonar

RobP

Yeah,.....sounds like real instruments to me!!

I started out many years ago with Magix. I then bought Voyetra's Record Producer. Soon after that I purchased Cakewalk Music Creator. I upgraded that a few times before getting Home Studio 6, then 6XL. A couple of months ago I upgraded to 7XL. I wasn't too crazy about the interface but I was willing to adapt. Then Cakewalk offered the Sonar 8 Studio upgrade for $39 so I bit and that's where I am now.

I am a multimedia journalist for a newspaper/website in northwest Indiana, not a musician, but I've always liked music and synthesizers and this is a way to fulfill a fantasy. And I have applied some of my musical "talent" to a few of my multimedia projects. At work I use a MacBook Pro so I use Logic Express 8 on that.

John

Oops! Please read Snar 7.0 not 6.0....imy previous post. Sorry.

I first tried out a version of "Cakewalk" many years ago, before the name was changed to "Sonar". However, I switched to Sonar from Logic. I had been using Logic for a few years in my Windows Based recording studio and was fairly happy with it. However, when emagic got bought out by Apple and discontinued their Windows product, I had to make a tough decision. Either convert the studio to Mac, or convert my DAW from Logic to something else. I priced a bunch of Macs, while I downloaded and tried a bunch of software demos and read about the other Windows based DAWs.

In the end, after the evaluation I went with Sonar. I found it to be not only better then the competition, but much better then Logic.

So I've been happy with Sonar Producer edition for a number of years, and as far as I can tell the competition can't touch them.

ORIGINAL: bluescat
Oops!

Just FYI...I see people write follow up / correction posts. You can 'edit' your post(s) if you happen to write incorrect information or want to change anything else you've written.