leemac
Ive always been PC since moving from Tape Recorders/ADAT. I used to use Logic Audio until Apple bought it and forced me to move to another DAW for PC. After a tonne of reading and research I ended up with Sonar 6. Ive been an exclusive Sonar user ever since.

Me too. Though I started with Professorial 8 and upgraded to Pro Audio 9. Been with Sonar from day one. At the same time I was strongly with Emagic. When Apple bought it and slammed the door on PC users I went back to Sonar. 

Another one in rural Warwickshire
jdf

Streatham, SW London :)

I, ahem, borrowed Cakewalk (pre Pro Audio!), Logic and Cubase from a friend (who also borrowed them from elsewhere). Only Cakewalk was logical to me - it behaved like other Windows programs so was easy to pick up and use and consistent in how it worked. So I went and bought a genuine version and have been here ever since.

Ex-pat Glosterman living in a weird backwater of South West Scotland.

leemac

Sir William
Hey leemac - I am in Rowlands Gill in Tyne & Wear, NE England

Hey small world, as they say.

Indeed it is. I know who to contact now if I need local help 😀

Black Country/West Midlands, but from the Staffordshire Moorlands originally.

Why Sonar? 20-odd years ago we had PCs, couldn't afford Macs and Cakewalk/Sonar seemed the best option in terms of what you got for your money and being intuitive to use.

Since then have ended up using Macs for just about everything, other than one (currently poorly) PC running Win8.1 and Sonar, and an elderly PC running Linux.

Why Sonar?
 
Up until 2007 I was using hard disc based recoding machines (2 x Fostex D90's slaved together) but as time went by found them to be too limiting fort the ideas I had in my head.
 
So I did a stack of research, downloaded several demos and eventually chose Sonar (6 PE) mainly due to the reputation of this very forum. Nothing else quite like it existed at the time apart from the Cubase forum and that was just a train wreck of competing egos.

I'm in Reading, originally from Bradford
 
Why Sonar - started with Fruity Loops 3 and never managed to finish anything, which I attributed to the workflow/model. Got into Sonar for its more linear model, and still haven't finished anything - could it be me?

I've either been to, or at least heard of, all the places mentioned so far. Can I join?