Thank you Kite for clarifying this. More than generous allowance from the devs.
A guitar banger, vocalist can do all and everything within Sonar. Studio One 3 has some nice tweeks, but nothing revolutionary for audio input that would raise a concern.
My problem has been an outcast crying in the wilderness over the fringe requests to gang multiple synths in series on a single track. Sonar, please get with the program and allow us this option. Years upon years of requests falling on deaf ears until this function, and the critical importance of the request is listened to and acted upon by someone else.
To this point, only Reaper sailed beyond Sonar in this aspect. Not that you could not accomplish chained synths, but such a bloody chore of cloning tracks, pasting midi files. Totally defective.
Objective and no flame, no fan boy analysis is that Reaper flew beyond where no Sonar had gone before. Reaper could gang synth after synth on one track, something that Sonar and every other thing from ProTools to PowerTracks could not realize.
Limit in Reaper achieving perfection is the pan function of a synth in multiple episodes. To realize this fundamental ability, it was necessary to load third party softwares (Energy XT, Console, now P&P Chainer) to support real stereo expression.
Mighty Allah, it looks like Presonus Studio One 3 has finally crossed the threshold, doing the task all inside the DAW. Such a beautiful breath of fresh air for the piano player.
Will never dump Sonar, but Presonus has broken through the frustrations, limitations for keyboard players. Like they said, they listened to their users and did the fix.
Glorious day for keyboard players. Worth any price for this gift.
Cheap as hell, so trying the educational route for a discount. Don't know what it will cost, but worth it ultimately. Thanks Presonus.
John