foucokoyouousonar
Dude screw cubase.. and screw anything digital.. I spent all day troubleshooting this crap trying to get a recording to play back without distortion. You record on a reel-to-reel you record then rewind and hit play and it plays back. And it sounds 100% better then the recording made on a computer. Warm and beautiful. I hate digital. I used to love it. I loved everything about computers. I don't know why.. it's all crap. I hate I spent my life with this crap. Troubleshooting this and that everyday. What a waste of time. I wish all I had was a reel to reel and some reels. But since digital came along it drove the prices of the good stuff up. That's why you use digital right? Because it's cheap. It's cheap and it works like cheap. Analog is the only way. Please boycott all that is digital. Lets drive the digital companys into the ground by boycotting them and let analog take over again at lower prices. Please?
I actually agree with this to an extent. When using tape and my console as well as rack effects and pre's etc, you fired it up, you recorded, you mixed and you were done. And...just about always unless you neglected to take care of your gear like Jim mentioned, it worked!
That said, one of the blessings for me as well as a curse using Sonar is, it forced me to learn about computers. I do not think a DAW should have that kind of power but let's face it, there have been times when all of us have had to do things to our systems that really shouldn't have had to be done. Right wrong or otherwise, that's really how I feel.
Now the blessing part of this is, having been forced to learn this stuff, I like to consider myself a middle of the road to advanced PC/Operating System user. I'm happy that I don't have to send my pc's in to be fixed or I can just send Jim an email and pick his brain for a second to get me back on course when I'm a bit lost.
Sonar has a lot to do with that for me because I would not have gotten into some of the stuff I got into without it. That said, I still don't believe we should have to go there when using a program. Some guys have really had a hard time using these PC DAWS and have been forced to do things they probably shouldn't be doing.
No one should have to be a pc savvy guru to make a program work yet sometimes, it's the only way. I can't tell you how many times crashes have messed me up. The same as I'm sure they have for all of you. I've never had that problem using my reel to reel machines. However, the editing and assorted goodies I CAN'T get from tape, make it worth all the hell I've been through in the DAW world and I'd never go back to tape. If a person can get through all the learning curves a DAW has as well as some of the trouble-shooting, there's no way they'd want to go back to tape. The key is getting that well-oiled machine. If you've never had it with a pc, there's no way to compare. Having lived on both sides of the fence for many years, I'll take Sonar over my reel machines that I still have to this day.
-Danny