money no object, would you do-over SONAR purchase?

With money no option, I would do whatever I want, with whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted to 
That goes for the above mentioned as well

Sorry,
 
I was not meaning to imply infinite deep pockets. I'm just meaning if you were not strapped for cash.
 
And SONAR for me is def at least a 2016 BMW i8.

SteveStrummerUK
 
 
I'd pay a moderator to move this to the Coffee House
 
 

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bapu
...would you do-over SONAR purchase?
I'm 99.9999999% certain I would. 
<edit> Not implying deep pockets, just if you were not strapped for cash.

That's a valid question and I am going to assume the question isn't rhetorical and you want others' opinions.  In my case I wish I had moved to Cubase earlier instead of opting for the 2015-16 membership upgrade from X3 (I've been using Sonar since v6 or 7 and upgrading regularly).   That's not to say that I don't like Sonar, just that Cubase fits my needs so much better. To me Cubase has a cleaner, more functional interface and the MIDI and Score editors are working well for me. Lastly, Sonar's monthly distribution, which combines new features with bug fixes, didn't suit me; too disruptive.
 
Considering the $$;  if I were to stay with Sonar and obtain a lifetime membership it would have cost me $350 over the past year.  Of course I did pay around $200 more than this to get Cubase so this approach isn't for everyone. Even though there is a "lifetime membership" on offer with Sonar it is more than likely that I would continue to pay $50-$200 per year to pay for some "additional items" which might be core to my particular workflow.  I suspect that from here on in there will be little difference in cost whether I have Sonar or Cubase. 
 
Cheers.
 
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
 
I'd pay a moderator to move this to the Coffee House
 
 

Who let Ed out of the basement again?  

So, the premise here is "if money was no object"
If I didn't have to worry about a music software budget, I think the DAWs I would own would be Sonar, Cubase, and Studio One. Between those three I believe everything would be covered, all my needs would be met . . . but hold on, how could I possibly find time to keep them all up to date and learn all the new features these 3 DAWs are competing to outdo each other ? . . . would probably be best to concentrate on just one DAW, so I'll just stick with Sonar, which has proved it's value to me over and over again.

If money were no object I would buy the company and have it create a DAW to MY specifications. Even if no one else bought this awesome new DAW and I drive the company into horrendous bankruptcy, it would be worth it.
 
 

I would not with the information I have recently learned even though I hate doing what everyone else is doing but ProTools has more features such as compatibility for external gear.  Sonar is a good DAW but being windows based only and the limitations that I am just now learning, for professional goal oriented recording I would have to pass. I have been with Sonar since the beginning back with Cakewalk as I type this I believe if I was more of a Mac person I would have never gone down the road of Cakewalk to Sonar...

Ok...I have been with Twelvetone Cakewalk from almost the beginning (Cakewalk 3.1).  For 20 years+ I worked 'round the clock scoring to picture and composing music.  And I am going to say yes.  Here is why.  When Cake first started it was just a sequencing program and most everything was done outside the computer.  My picture was on tape, I had a rack of synths to generate sounds and I recorded audio into a 4 track AKAI that all locked together thru SYMPTE Time code.  Cake was the easiest/best/fastest locking sequencer and notation software of it's time.  I could print out lead sheets and hand write in articulations in a matter of minutes (Finale was new and looked great, but slow and clumsy).  As technology improved and functions moved inside the computer,  I was always well ahead of everyone else.  I had to use other apps alongside Calk to do my job...a program to digitize/edit picture, GigaStudio to playback samples, an app to connect multiple computers etc...,  but because I was with Windows and Cakewalk i was ahead of my competitors.  I got to working with 64 bit and all inside one computer way faster than the Apple/Logic/Protools guys.  I could do fast bounces for years while my Protool counter parts where rendering in real time.   Until you have producers and an audio mixer waiting for revisions you have no idea how much that meant.
 
I need simplicity and speed.  Sonar was/is the best at that....just update the stinking notation part and I have noooooo complaints.           

Yes.  Mostly due to comfort and familiarity.  I don't want to learn another program.  And Sonar works.  I have some problems with it, but they all turn out to be me and not Sonar.
 
I've fooled around with Reason a bit.  It seems like a truly wonderful product, but I just can't bring myself to commit to the learning curve.