Haha, I know hardly anyone will care but a gotta take a parting vent. I tried and tried and tried and tried and everytime I think I've got a working copy of sonar, the bottom falls out. Sonar is feature rich, but it's never been anything I could use from point a to point b, not even once. Kudos to those that can and have had much success! But after many versions, countless wasted money and countless hours of talking with techs, forum members and such, it's time to permanently uninstall sonar and just forget about it. Live works. Reaper works. Studio one works now (with 2.5, it didn't prior) They are not necessarily as feature rich as sonar, but I don't have CONSTANT problems with notes not recording, loops not looping at the time you set and then of course there is the crashing. I'd like to say it's been fun, but it hasn't. Last night was the last straw. I hope each and everyone of you a fantastic new year and much luck in your endeavors!

Welp, best of luck to ya.

Not sure why people need to do the ragequit thing though. It only ends up causing a circus.

Circus is good. I totally agree with first post. I have the same experience. It never lasted through the project. It ALWAYS crashes for one reason or another. One excuse to it is that I have XP OS. However, the user experience is very poor. It looks nice and is very promising, but bulky and hard to operate. And- it crashes. Restarting my computer 3-4 times durring the session became normal. I am about to build new computer and- well- I paid for Sonar, I may as well install it again- another thing is- what other DAW do you go to? I switched to Sonar from Logic Platinum when Apple bought Emagic. I have read about some cool Cubase functionality, but Cubase graphics look like 6 years old would like them. I like Sonar to be fixed, but how many generations and PAID upgrades should pass before it happens? Few years from now, they will say that it does not work because of my Windows 8 or 9 or 10, my sound card conflict, my unsupported plugins and the music I am playing to blame, but Sonar itself is perfect.

The trick is if your system no longer meets the system requirements of the new versions to stop upgrading or update your OS/hardware. Otherwise you have to build a new system. Just like with video games. I can't expect to run the latest Halo or whatever the kiddies are playing these days on my ancient P3.

You can get extra life out of a system through optimization and what not though. Having an unsupported OS will however generally cause problems. I think some people were getting X1 to work with XP but X2... no way. 

That's the commercial tech market for ya. They gotta make their cash somehow.

vladasyn


Circus is good. I totally agree. I have the same experience. It never lasted trough the project. It ALWAYS crashes for one reason or another. One excuse to it is that I have XP OS. However, the used experience is very poor. It looks nice and is very promising but bulky and hard to operate. And- it crashes. Restarting my computer 3-4 times durring the session became normal. I am about to build new computer and- well- I paid for Sonar, I may as well install it again- another thing is- what do you go to? I have read some cool Cubase functionality, but Cubase graphics look like 6 years old would like them. I like Sonar to be fixed, but how many generations and PAID upgrades should pass before it happens? Few years from now, they will say that it does not work because of my Windows 8 or 9 or 10, my sound card conflict, my unsupported plugins and the music I am playing to blame, but Sonar itself is perfect.

 
Sonar does not need fixing so that you don't have to restart 4 times a session.
 
If Sonar was to blame, I would be having the same experience.
 
I am not.  It is rock solid.  Works great.
 
It is more likely to be something hardware or pebkac related.
 
If Sonar was as bad as you say, then why do SO MANY people find it works flawlessly.  I am not a fanboy, but just find statements like yours laughable.  By the way, I believe the circus Beep was reffering to was not people agreeing with the OP.  Quite the opposite.
 
To the OP - hope things work out okay for you.

I am glad it works for you and I would like to hear that it works over and over again- may be my Sonar will start working as well by the power of my belief. It is great that Win 7 are supported. So far. What if next upgrade would be released for Win 8 only? You going to upgrade? It is not about the OS. The SP 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and X1 were doing the same thing for me and many other people.

In the unlikely event that the next release is only supported on Win8, I will continue to use my current version and evaluate my need to upgrade. Upgrading hardware and software are not mandatory.

True, IF the current version is working. All Sonar versions had some kind of issues and drama, so I had to keep upgrading them hoping, it will get stable, but it never did.

The SP 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and X1

In all seriousness, if you had major problems running every single version of Sonar (from v4 to X1), then I'd say the issue is very likely *not* Sonar.

You mean- it is me? lol. I will install it again soon as I get new system and when it crashes again, and I know it will, because it never fails, I will know that it is not me, sound cards, MIDI or type of music. It is IT.