I was reading a thread earlier and they mentioned a DAW called Sequoia. Out of curiosity i googled it and checked it out. Then i noticed the price was like $3200 or in that ballpark. That got me to thinking, what could possibly make a DAW cost that much money? You can pretty much do anything you want to do with Sonar X-2 without buying any other plugins if u choose, From recording, mixing to mastering. So my question is, what would make a DAW cost that much more than X-2 or any other DAW for that matter?

mmmm...you missed SAWstudio....http://www.sawstudio.com/products_sawstudio.htm

I'm not sure but I think it is more of a 'pro' driven DAW than most are.

If'n you has the $$$$ then I guess one can go for it....

Well, it will run on XP

heres the link
http://sequoia-audio.com/en/

sure does, but it doesn't run on windows 8
as far as saw running in xp sure will.
because the code was written for it like 13 years ago.

chuckebaby


heres the link
http://sequoia-audio.com/en/

sure does, but it doesn't run on windows 8
as far as saw running in xp sure will.
because the code was written for it like 13 years ago.

...and looks it too...

Yeah, I saw Danny's reference to Sequoia and googled it too. I didn't bother researching the price. And at $3200... Blimey! Perhaps Danny could let us in on its worth.

Actually, now I think about it, if that's what the "pro's" are paying for their DAW then that puts the likes of Cubase and Sonar well in the domain of the bedroom musician. Kind of makes me feel I've not wasted my time and money on X2 and the many plugs

And for the price, SAW has a limit on the number of tracks you can have, and it looks pretty crap. Does anyone here know someone who owns/uses SAW?

SAW can only work with 24 bit audio and it has a 24 bit audio engine. Its real claim to fame is its written in assembly language. 

I started out with 8.5 and worked my way up to X-2. I've never even demoed a different DAW. I really like X-2 and have really good luck with it therefore given all that u can do with X-2, what could possibly make a different DAW cost a couple thousand dollars and x-2 u can get for like $400 or $500 dollars?

You used to be able to demo SAW Studio. I have the demo and it has a lot of very nice features. I also found it to be very efficient and well written.

Hi,
I think it is not really correct to compare Sequoia with Sonar, because Sequoia is a big software for broadcast. It's like Nuendo from Steinberg, which also costs a lot more money than cubase. If you want to compare with sonar, you have to choose Samplitude from Magix. Samplitude is like Cubase and Sequoia like Nuendo. So you have to compare Sonar, Cubase and Samplitude!

As I know, the big prices of Nuendo and Sequoia or similar software are because of some special video-codecs you have to pay for and of of course their support. So Sequoia and Nuendo are based on the little brothers like Samplitude and Cubase.

Kind regards,
Timo