Howdy, sharkester. HNY!
 
As far as where SONAR beds the proverbial crap... well that's why I have Reaper installed. SONAR is a delicate little mistress indeed but if it's simply not doing what I want then I switch to the Reap.
 
In fact if this truly is the end (my only friend... the end... lol) then I think I'd just become a Reaper fanatic.

Beepster
If this had happened a few years ago? Ya, then I would have been sooper pissed... because even basic stuff was borking out (dear X2... you sucked).

 
actually, x2 was pretty stable
x1 however...
 

Beepster
Howdy, sharkester. HNY!
 
As far as where SONAR beds the proverbial crap... well that's why I have Reaper installed. SONAR is a delicate little mistress indeed but if it's simply not doing what I want then I switch to the Reap.
 
In fact if this truly is the end (my only friend... the end... lol) then I think I'd just become a Reaper fanatic.

HNY Beepster!
 
The nerdy side of me wants to master every nook and cranny of Reaper, that's for sure. No skins - they're for wimps. 

HNY all-
it took me ages to realise that the vast majority of users here create their music and probably enjoy the technical challenges of the software as much as the end result.i record predominately live and for tracking and overdubbing,it`s hard to beat 8:5.- absolutely rock solid,never seen the internet-i have a new,cloned program drive in case and it now apparently has a "cool retro vibe".
i can even get a reasonable mixdown but anything worthwhile goes out of house.
have been dabbling with Mixbus but being mildly dyslexic it`s a struggle.
i do feel for the advanced users who will probably have to moove on-fortunately for me ,a wav is a wav and the rest is just the icing on the cake.
will miss this forum though-it`s easy on the eye(and the brain) first thing in the morning.....
cheers
 

Sonar 8.5 Studio working flawlessly for me. 8.5 Producer however had all kinds of problems, could have been a bad install disc. Too bad I waited until this current fiasco to install Studio again and find it's the perfect DAW for me. Was working in Reaper the past year and a half. It was painful and exhausting. Not well suited to midi, especially full orchestra. Routing takes ten times as long as Sonar. Navigation also was awkward. I'm sure it's fine for live recording though.

Sonar Platinum until the end!!!  May unplug network on main system while this CPU issue is sorted out.