Hi:)
 
Now I've bought Studio One and additionally Cubase 9.5 , tried to work with them.... it's OK but not the look alike Sonar:(
 
Studio One is a mess, don't really like this ... can't say it in English....mess, this 1000ends of Informationens on the screen....not clearly frontiers, difficult to see what's going on :(  
Cubase has a much more functions, Cakewalk should be ashamed on that(For sure, Cakewalk was the first 64bit DAW, had a lot of functions other DAWs don't have/had), to work with Midi is great, but! Too the look, the optic is not what I want, it's a no go, I worked with it 15 years ago and throwed it away!
 
So! Sonar! In conjunction with Ouverture with the Midi Functions of Cubase, that is, I say would be in German in translation to english, would be the burner, the hell, the best of all:)
 
Greetz to the lost Ones:) I 'll stay on Sonar!
Bassman.
 
P.S. I forgot to say that I love AZCtrl, Alexeys work, that is not possible with other DAWs!
 
 

I agree with you about Studio One I bought it but am hardly using it. I also bought the Magix Samplitude X3 Pro Suite deal and I am loving that. I used AZCtrl in Sonar, but in Samplitude, there is a very comprehensive controller configuration system which you can use to set anything up with.

It's funny, because I came to SONAR from using the free version of Studio One and to this day I find the Studio One interface to be by far clearer and more intuitive than SONAR. 

I honestly wouldn't judge an interface until you've used the program for a few months. DAW's are necessarily quite crowded workspaces which seem confusing when you first use them. Once you're familiar with where everything is and they become second nature, they seem far less crowded and chaotic. And you may find you even like the new interface better than the old one. I felt the same when Microsoft introduced the new style interface to programs like Excel - hated its guts. Now I prefer it. 

sharke
I honestly wouldn't judge an interface until you've used the program for a few months. DAW's are necessarily quite crowded workspaces which seem confusing when you first use them. Once you're familiar with where everything is and they become second nature, they seem far less crowded and chaotic. 

Agree 100%. Also sometimes little things make a huge difference - like the "D" shortcut in SONAR. 

Anderton

sharke
I honestly wouldn't judge an interface until you've used the program for a few months. DAW's are necessarily quite crowded workspaces which seem confusing when you first use them. Once you're familiar with where everything is and they become second nature, they seem far less crowded and chaotic. 

Agree 100%. Also sometimes little things make a huge difference - like the "D" shortcut in SONAR. 

Also F to fit project to screen. Having said that, I always found that in large projects I've worked on a long time, F never worked properly because Sonar would leave all kinds of hard to find (and sometimes impossible to find) orphaned automation nodes lying around which, if situated a distance to the right of the end of your project, would make Sonar believe that that was the end of your project. So when hitting F you end up with the actual project bunched up to one side, followed by a huge empty space on the other.