Paul P
Why have both S1 and X2 ? At 300+$ each, they look awfully similar.
Unless you buy the high-end versions they wouldn't cost like that (especially if you buy them during a holiday sale). I choose to own entry to intermediate-level versions that don't include many plugins and get commercial and free third-party plugins (like MeldaProduction, Voxengo, etc) that work in both daws so that I don't have to learn how to use two different pitch-correction tools, mastering tools, etc. As with ampfixer, I got S1 as my plan B (when X1 was very unstable), but using S1 also taught me a lot about what Sonar is good at and not good at. For example, I wouldn't have submitted feature requests for shortcut keys for marker positions, better control surface plugin (ACT feature), etc. And as you say, since they look similar (S1's GUI looks so amateur, though

), it wasn't like having to learn two completely different software.