Hey Bit,
Hope you’re enjoying the best of the islands and being chased by young naked native girls. Opinion here, no intent to cause tribal fanboy or flame wars amongst other respected forum members. Just an observation, trying to be objective and the like…
Reaper and Sonar in one area…
Handling of vst’s and vsti’s, Sonar suks.
The vst/vsti file management in Sonar is convoluted defective, spread over the hard drive without recourse to any sane library system adjustable by the end point user.
This in spite of years of valid requests by users to get with the program. Meaning here, the ability to chain together more than one synth on a channel and option to organize vst/vsti plugs in a more user friendly way.
Off topic, another reason to pass on the Presonus DAW option. Presonus is strangled as badly as Sonar in this aspect...
Cakewalk company posts give a complex workaround for the defect, but like a patch on an infection not addressing the root cause of the infection.
Wanted to do all my keyboards in Sonar but can’t.
Reaper, click on one synth, series it with another synth, series it with another, etc etc on the same track. Parallel or series route with another click. Adjust relative volumes with another. Done. Beautiful landscapes without having to resort to multiple cloned tracks.
Doing exclusive audio input, except for the defective file management jungle, Sonar and Reaper feel about equal, just more to go through with Sonar before you find the plugin you were looking for.
Have to keep Reaper on board for keyboards where Sonar doesn’t have the capability. Sonar is kept here for midi sheet music and advanced midi editing where Reaper as a lot of catch up to do. I can't seem to work without both programs.
John
(edited to take out Firefox formatting and alcoholic rambling...sorry guys...)