Craig's been a great spokesperson for all DAWs. Same out-of-the-box approach he took in his early days.

I used to have a Radio Shack electronics book by Craig, he is "THE"definition of an prolific Writer who's knowledge an expertise has helped generations of enthusiasts me included.

Nice guy too, keep up the Great(notice I didn't write "good") work Craig.

When I was first getting into multi-track recording (79-80; TEAC A3440-S 4-track RTR), I bought Craig's "Home Recording for Musicians." Just what the doctor ordered. I devoured that book. 
 

Anderton
Yeah, actually I died a few months ago. However before that happened, I programmed my computer to post periodic messages for various forums and social media that will last through 2020.

You went for the lifetime deal?

I already kind of fanboyed out in another post about how I used to have a subscription to GP and read it cover to cover when I was a teen, including Craig's electronics columns.

When Joe Perry was on the cover ('78 so?), I must have read that interview fifty times (Jas Obrecht was a GREAT interviewer, as well as Skunk Baxter lookalike at the time). I remember being mind-boggled reading about Joe's MXR rackmount delay, which his tech had modded to have THREE presets that could be recalled with a footswitch. Someday, I thought, someday...

Ionian
My equipment: A Commodore 64, 2 1541 Disk Drives, Dr T's Music Studio and a Casiotone CT-460.

Ha ha ... great !  I had exactly the same equipment ...

I still have my copy of The Digital Delay Handbook, 1985

re: Watch for my line of guitar effects that will be coming out in 2018...
 
fascinating!...   curious... what's up?
 
Rusty

Ionian
Yeah, the guy's been around for a while and when I was younger I had a ton of respect for him because he was everywhere - articles, writing manuals for synths / samplers etc.  

That's why when he wrote a review on Sonar, I was like, "Finally!  This guy will call out the bugs!  This guy will call out the bad design changes!"  Except he didn't.  In fact he praised everything pretty much like he's never even used the program.  It was bizarre.  

Anyway, when it came out later he was hired by Gibson / Cakewalk, I was like, "Ohhhhhh No wonder his 'reviews' of Sonar read like a damn corporate press release of the program. 

Anyway, I've kind of split him into two - the pre Cakewalk Anderton who wrote all those great articles and that I respect, and well, the post Cakewalk Anderton who needs to eat.  I prefer to make pretend post Cakewalk never happened otherwise I can't enjoy the old tech articles he wrote without constantly wondering what his agenda is. 

You know the saying, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. 

Well you're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. I've been using SONAR since 2000. I joined Gibson in 2013. All reviews of SONAR were written way before I was asked to join Gibson. Look it up. And I wasn't asked until three days before I joined.
 
The reason why my reviews were so favorable was a) SONAR was a really great program, b) I've used and reviewed all DAWs so I had a basis of comparison, and c) I really knew the program, so the basis of my praise was years and years of it providing solutions for making music, doing audio-for-video, creating loop libraries, and more. I never found a program that fulfilled my needs better, except (as I've often mentioned in this forum) Ableton Live for live performance (I wrote the manual for Version 2) and Studio One Pro for album assembly and mastering. I think those are great programs, too. So sue me.
 
I never needed the Gibson gig to eat. One reason I was successful there was because I didn't need the job, so I wasn't afraid to say things other people were. Unfortunately toward the end, that tended to make me feel somewhat like a bit of a persona non grata at Cakewalk because I didn't like the way the program, or the company, was going.
 
 
 

Craig!  YOu're the man and have no clue why anyone would or even feel the need to try to call you out on anything here!  YOu've been nothing less than an amazing resource and positive proponent of Sonar and if being on the inside gave you some different perspectives, I for one were happy for the insights!