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http://www.reaper.fm/download.php

Wouldn't it be great if SPlat had a lot of the features of Reaper? The themes are amazing and it's so stable too.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Sonar and have used it since the Atari St days of Pro 24.

I feel dirty... I downloaded 4.78 and for the first time in what must be at least twenty five years I am trying a new "sequencer" (they weren't called DAWs back then LOL)...

synkrotron
I feel dirty... I downloaded 4.78 and for the first time in what must be at least twenty five years I am trying a new "sequencer" (they weren't called DAWs back then LOL)...

It's a fact of life, don't feel dirty. We all do it. That is, use other DAWs (sequencers).

mudgel

synkrotron
I feel dirty... I downloaded 4.78 and for the first time in what must be at least twenty five years I am trying a new "sequencer" (they weren't called DAWs back then LOL)...

It's a fact of life, don't feel dirty. We all do it. That is, use other DAWs (sequencers).

this.
I've taken to using open- source trackers lately which are extremely fun to use.

I must admit I was a Sonar Only, until I tried Reaper.

Well... I'm enjoying the evaluation thus far 
 
I like the way automations are copied... pretty much the same as a clip.
 
And I also like the stretch markers. I know you must be able to do the same in Sonar but it just seems a tad simpler in Reaper.
 
To be honest, I realise that I should really go back into Sonar and try something that I like how it's done in Reaper, just to be sure... It might be just that I haven't done the same in Sonar for some time. I'm certainly not what you would call a "power user," by any stretch of the imagination 

I have just completed a MIDI project in SPlat using VSTis and such, created a full set of stems by bouncing individually to audio tracks. I then imported these into Reaper for a mix down. A nice workflow indeed.

Well... for forty quid, I've crumbled and bought this thing... Seems one of them "no-brainers."
 
CPU load appears to be a lot lighter than Sonar and more balanced across the cores.

Sir William
I have just completed a MIDI project in SPlat using VSTis and such, created a full set of stems by bouncing individually to audio tracks. I then imported these into Reaper for a mix down. A nice workflow indeed.

Try that with Harrison Mixbus. You may be pleasantly surprised.
 
One caveat: MixBus 2.5 is 32bit only. 3.0 will be 64bit.