Paul McCartney uses Cubase.  That's it! I'm switching.
 
http://www.rollingstone.c...d-winding-q-a-20140717

This is great-
"That became actually the big Beatle policy. It was always to put a really serious B side on there – so you got "Strawberry Fields" with "Penny Lane," and people now talk about that. That was a factor of the Beatles' success, I think. It was always a killer B side, which people often thought was as good or better than the A side."

 

Direct to B side uploads?

I'm there.

I use Cubase...it's a heavy-weight DAW...feature wise
(especially MIDI) miles ahead of Sonar.  No it doesn't 
have the PC,...but, while the PC looks killer...it's only a 
secondary (but placed Primary) FX Bin, a "redundant FX Bin"
which are VST's with a proprietary interface, so technically it's
"eye candy" with no true benefit other then ease of access to 
controls and looking way kewl...it also causes the program
to use more memory, both RAM and Graphics, to accommodate it.


As far as the interface goes in Sonar, I love it...but there are
DAW's that have taken the docking concept way beyond
what Sonar does...

If Sonar ever gets their MIDI up to par, they'd probably be
getting a lot more customers.  IMO, Sonars MIDI editing is
horrendous....but that's just MO...I've used $50 DAW's
that edited MIDI better then Sonar, and had better Scoring
capabilities...Cake targets the "Audio Recording" Musician,
at the expense of (and loss of sales to) the MIDI Musician.
They need to stop giving "Fluff" and starting adding real
world usage enhancements to capture a bigger market.

Cubase does both...hence its ranking in use...in Europe
it's used more then Pro Tools...

Ok, you can throw rocks now...

The Bakers should send Paulie a complimentary copy of X3. 

That should finish him off!

Me too Larry.
I switched to Cubase last summer when I got a great deal for it, including HALion 4 [now 5] for free, just a month or so before Sonar X3 was released - all the while waiting & wondering & waiting some more & wondering even more as we all were, during Cake's ridiculous 'cone of silence', instead of giving some very simple replies that they absolutely refused to honor their loyal customers with.
 
Remember???
 
That's when a number of us jumped ship.
 
Cubase is way ahead, particularly for MIDI, which is 90% of what I do.
 

wow... u all gots me lookin at cubase... haven't used it since the ol' atari days! I notice lots of cubase users in the orchestral field... 
 
I was gonna post, the more important question being: what would Lennon use?  He was the visionary in so many realms which resonate with my spirit.  Meh on McC...
 
but the cubase discussion has piqued my interest... actually, being able to see more and quickly, as was depicted in the recent shreddage video... and other vids I've been consuming to acquire insights into orchestrating...and eligantly depicting/editing data... don't know if it's my clutziness or lack of skill and will try to figure this first... but as I work on bigger trackloads...
 
bottom line for me.... it ain't about the money.... money is but a figment... it's about effective creating and knocking out videoable fragments to elicit change...
 
My buddy keeps pimpin' Ableton, after buying x3pro at my urging and finding it didn't resonate.  He just moved on... no ugliness, nasty posts... all a waste of time...
 
My bigggggg issue is cumbersome Kontakt/midi and audio tracks visualizations and not really fealin' capable of keepin' track of it all, which will only get worse with Albion's huge track load to come....Navigating this quickly is important to me as I want to produce climate music quickly/elegantly as I can muster, without the clugyness of programs...I DON'T read music, but would love any midi/notation assistance in quickly generating powerful ostinatos (sp) which will scream... and now I have shreddage!  (thanks Andrew)
 
Oh what to do, where to go...

I've tried Cubase a couple of times, but the work flow just never made sense to me.  Maybe I just never gave it a fair enough shake.  But Sonar just made sense.   Most times when I'm want to do something that something is in a logical (for me place).
 
That being said, as i get more into working with Hollywood strings etc, and automation, I'm not 100% of Sonar yet.  Maybe I just need to spend more time.

Kroneborge
I've tried Cubase a couple of times, but the work flow just never made sense to me.  Maybe I just never gave it a fair enough shake.  But Sonar just made sense.   Most times when I'm want to do something that something is in a logical (for me place).

For me just replace Cubase with both Reaper and Studio One Pro and the above resonates.
 
I'll probably never really have the time to delve as deeply in those other two as I do in SOANR but I will try.