I have been producing music for approx seven years and can't praise this DAW software package highly enough. I've tried many of the others but each time keep coming back to Sonar Professional because it is so user friendly and does exactly what I need. If anyone is reading this and wondering whether to purchase Sonar, I have just set up a website www.malcolmfhill.online and ALL the music featured on the site has been mixed and recorded using the Sonar Professional DAW software. Have a listen and see what can be achieved. I hope this will encourage others to "give it a go". Very best wishes and a huge thankyou to Sonar.
Malcolm F Hill - UK Producer. 

Hi, Malcolm.
Nice to see a so positive post.
I must say that I totally agree.
All the best.

Kudo's Malcolm...

FANTASTIC DAW SOFTWARE.

Be careful using all caps, it could get you banned... Ha, Ha, just kidding.
 
I totally agree with you. I've been using Cakewalk software for over 20 years! 

I agree with you, although it took some time for me to get used to skylight interface. I think my first 'DAW' or actually midi sequencer was maybe Cakewalk Apprentice, can't remember the version, but it must have been around 1991! The software came bundled with a soundblaster sound card. Very cool thing is that many of the shortcuts are still the same as back then.
 
Thanks, and all the best.

Sonar all the way !!!

Yep, Sonar has been my No 1 choice for many years. It just fits me so much better than anything else out there. I've never really understood why has always seemed to be something of an underdog in the DAW market. People (who have never really tried it) seem to have a low opinion of Sonar and I think that's something Cakewalk needs to address.

Always good to confirm that the rest of us haven't been wasting our time! Thanks, Malcolm.

Sonar is the only DAW that I need.  It does everything that I want in a DAW. I have been using Cakewalk products for a long time and I never had a reason to look at another DAW.
 
Not only is Sonar a great DAW but the people on these forums are fantastic.  They share their knowledge willingly. I have learned more on these forums then I have from the docs. I greatly appreciated all of you who share their knowledge.

I've been using Cakewalk products since Pro Audio 6. They've added a few features and changed things a little since then. What little I know about music recording and mixing I've learned almost completely in a Cakewalk software environment and I'm pretty comfortable with it. It's pretty much the center of my work station in most instances, all though I do use it a lot in conjunction with Maschine these days. I'll often use Maschine as my ideas/brainstorming lab, and then bring things into Sonar (with Maschine as a plugin or by exporting MIDI) to flesh them out and really get into the details, and of course to do all the audio recording that's longer than sample-length. It's a great system for me, and Sonar is where it all gets pulled together. I couldn't see switching to anything else at this point.

Well, I still have a copy of Abelton Live Lite on my hard drive I've never really checked out...