Looks amazing for an initial (PRE !) release. Hope cake is watching.

Yes, Schwaa appears to be an amazing developer. I'm getting more into Reaper now. Problem now is sticking notes. I have even started to do some midi editing in piano roll, something I have never done before! Always relied on notation. 
OTOH, I am demo-ing Sonar Pro, and wanting to upgrade. I said I wouldn't, but why hang on to an outdated DAW? Even if I ends up staying with Windows 7 past the EOL, it would be better to have the last Sonar version that was supported by Cakewalk, right? (I mean supported for Windows 7).

I bought the latest version of Platinum. Will continue to use SONAR until something replaces its core functionality/ workflow, and also use whatever else as well. Until such time as there is a single app solution, whatever that is, SONAR or not. It's all clear to me.... As mud..LOL
Will pick up a Reaper license though, based on the notation addition and some strong video features as well.

Interesting developments..

michael diemer
Yes, Schwaa appears to be an amazing developer. I'm getting more into Reaper now. Problem now is sticking notes. I have even started to do some midi editing in piano roll, something I have never done before! Always relied on notation. 
OTOH, I am demo-ing Sonar Pro, and wanting to upgrade. I said I wouldn't, but why hang on to an outdated DAW? Even if I ends up staying with Windows 7 past the EOL, it would be better to have the last Sonar version that was supported by Cakewalk, right? (I mean supported for Windows 7).

I've given up trying to choose between Sonar and Reaper.  They're both on my machine and it will likely always be that way.  They are each better in unique ways when compared to the other.  The problem is always deciding which to use when starting a new project.

Watching the speed of notation development and the back and forth between the developer and a small but very knowledgeable bunch of pre-release testers has me watching longingly. Reaper would have been the last DAW I would have expected get a notation editor capable of handling triplets.

BobF
 
I've given up trying to choose between Sonar and Reaper.  They're both on my machine and it will likely always be that way.  They are each better in unique ways when compared to the other.  The problem is always deciding which to use when starting a new project.

+1 I've kept up with both SONAR & REAPER over the years and can competently use both. I upgrade each one as the updates are released to stay up to date. Being comfortable with several DAW apps and having them available when needed is not a bad thing.
 
Cheers,
 
Billy Buck

From what I gather, the notation in Reaper is going to be considerably beyond what Sonar has. They are talking about (and implementing) stuff that Sibelius doesn't even have, like copy/past for triplets. It looks like it's going to be far more than just a staff view, far closer to true notation. And this within a DAW. Can't wait.

michael diemer
From what I gather, the notation in Reaper is going to be considerably beyond what Sonar has. They are talking about (and implementing) stuff that Sibelius doesn't even have, like copy/past for triplets. It looks like it's going to be far more than just a staff view, far closer to true notation. And this within a DAW. Can't wait.

Hi michael-
 
I'll finally be able to look at in in depth this weekend; can't wait! From what I've seen, it's pretty phenomenal what they're doing and yes, way beyond what SONAR has done thus far.
 
-Susan

Something I really like from Reaper is that they have a very periodic cycle of update releases and that issues get fixed very quickly.  It is really easy to get contact with the developers and they are always looking at the forum posts.
 
Anyone can download pre-releases which are uploaded almost daily with new improvements.  Installation is dead simple and you can easily have more than one different version installed in your machine with no issue at all.
 
I moved to Reaper from Cakewalk from Cubase.  To me Cakewalk workflow is a little convoluted and is hard (at least in my Artist version) to keep everything clean and sorted when you have dozens of tracks and groups.  I found that in Reaper is really easy to keep a hierarchy of your tracks and the routing capabilities are awesome.  Sadly I haven't found a way to get the same routing power in Sonar.
 
And in my experience, the workload of Reaper compared to Sonar is really low and Reaper have a really useful resource monitor that tells you how much resources are each of your plugins in your tracks using so is stupidly easy to find any problematic plugin.  Sadly that is not true in Cakewalk.
 
I use now Cakewalk mostly in order to be able to open old projects and project of some friend that use Cakewalk too.  Anyway I am looking forward to use Cakewalk more.... I am still have more than 6 months of my subscription