Thanks for posting this, Shawn, and your positive thread upstairs.
I finally got to listen to it, and really enjoyed it.
I'm like you, and tend to play everything, but I do keep wanting to have a go at manipulating loops. You did it very well.
It's the fact that one can track a full band, or play with loops, that really attracts me to Sonar.
I used to play around a lot with sampled loops when I got my first sampler many moons ago, an Ensoniq Mirage, and then with Akai samplers. I used to love manipulating them, even though I only had a two digit LED display, and two seconds of sampling.
The only comment I would make about it is that I would maybe drop off the "string-like" sound that pulses through it every so often, just to add variety.
Thanks again for posting this up. I think Sonar is "awesome" too.