slyman

sharke
Some people take months or even years to finish tracks. 

...Thought is was just me.........

I believe there may be many of us 

Zargg

slyman

sharke
Some people take months or even years to finish tracks. 

...Thought is was just me.........

I believe there may be many of us 

I'm still working on an album I started in 2007
 
It is a double CD's worth, not that this is relevant in any way 

Bristol_Jonesey

Zargg

slyman

sharke
Some people take months or even years to finish tracks. 

...Thought is was just me.........

I believe there may be many of us 

I'm still working on an album I started in 2007
 
It is a double CD's worth, not that this is relevant in any way 

So, you're also working on new material? 

Although I have completed a song in one day, that's an exception. Usually it takes a week or so, and in some cases I haven't called it "done" until literally years after a project was begun. I guess that's why it's called a "project".

I'm also still finishing building my house I started in 1981

Oh my god i think I'll stick only with my guitar and vocal inside sonar ^^

musaed
Oh my god i think I'll stick only with my guitar and vocal inside sonar ^^

It depends on what you want to do with Sonar.  If you just want your guitar and vocals, you're running at your own pace.
 
Remember, lots of great albums took forever to make.  U2's "Where the streets had no name" took months to edit and mix, apparently.  Bryan Eno nearly erased the tapes to get a fresh start!  Kate Bush is notorious for spending years on an album.  

Slugbaby

musaed
Oh my god i think I'll stick only with my guitar and vocal inside sonar ^^

It depends on what you want to do with Sonar.  If you just want your guitar and vocals, you're running at your own pace.
 
Remember, lots of great albums took forever to make.  U2's "Where the streets had no name" took months to edit and mix, apparently.  Bryan Eno nearly erased the tapes to get a fresh start!  Kate Bush is notorious for spending years on an album.  

Very true.
 
And we're talking about professional artists recording in top notch studios with world class equipment and mixed by the best in the business.
 
So if you're aiming for that sort of quality, be prepared to spend a LOT of time dealing with the minutiae of a project as well as maintaining focus on the bigger picture.

sharke
Some people take months or even years to finish tracks...

 
Most of my current projects were begun in earlier versions of Sonar. Forward compatibility is a must.

But when talking about finishing a project, completely, mixed and mastered, is not the same as what the OP is asking about laying down tracks.   I can lay down 12 tracks in an afternoon, depending on if I'm still writing the parts or already know what I'm going to play for each instrument.
It's the post production mixing and mastering that takes days or weeks.  I think that's an important distinction when answering musaed's question (which I believe was asking about laying down separate tracks).

And for those who are laying down separate tracks for each drum piece, I'd highly suggest getting Superior Drummer 3.  All the individual drum parts can be mixed within SD3, along with efx.  Thus freeing up your Sonar tracks to where you only have to create one track for the drums.  *just my 2 cents on that issue