Grem,
 
Hey brother. Hope you are sailing toward Infinity in comfort and style, and that all is well with you.
 
Tweak is over the top involvement in Reaper. Probably using less than 1% of the potential here because the rest of it is over my head. Could get lost in the labyrinths, refining sounds and routing, never getting anything end point productive done. Automation lanes and routing pathways could take a lifetime to understand.
 
May all be blessed, healthy, happy, productive, appreciated, respected...all that stuff...
 
John
 
 
 

Reaper is a great daw and could suffice for making anyone happy. I like it as my second favorite. Read the books, manual and watched groove3 videos.

I have used Sonar since version 2 but took a break for a couple years to dabble with Reaper and Ableton, recently upgraded to X3 and was pretty excited until I put it to the test..too many bugs, and I cant seem to see much useable upgrades surprisingly since my last version of Sonar 8.5 :(..looks like all the same stock plugins and barely even any new presets for that matter, with the exception of Melodyne , Addictive Drums, a few other not worth mentioning..beyond that I am struggling hard trying to figure out what is wrong with the new mouse wheel scrolling zoom function in Sonar X3? Sonar has been my go to for about 15 years, very frustrated :( Now Reaper has a few functions that seem to take extra steps and the layout isn't necessarily pretty but served me unbelievably solid! Jumped right in to a handful professional projects never using the program Reaper before and there is no way I could not do that with X3 with how unpredictable basic functions tend to operate and the amount of setup I having to do to even get a functional screen for quick editing due a very cluttered layout that seems impossible to manage..I havent given up on Sonar X3 yet though, still here right now plugging away at a mix for a client but not having a lot of fun really..and still looking for some sort of a fix for that dysfunctional scroll zoom, it really is a major issue for me. Reaper still feels a little basic at times but appears to be putting out fixes and updates so quickly that any bugs I run into are addressed almost before I can post about them, I gave Sonar a several year break to come back to new problems and the feeling that I lost functionality..:(