What's Your Favorite Feature in SONAR 8.5?

The PX-64 and VX-64 plug-ins are excellent.

Scott

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unfair question!
last night i was in love again with the Percussion Strip.  BitBridge 2, Step Sequencer 2, x64 versions of plugs, etc etc

hot plug unplug of midi devices , pricelless with laptops with few usb's !!

My favorite feature in SONAR 8.5.1 is the automation envelopes.

I like that feature... so it seems a shame that envelopes are such a mess in SONAR; it's a pain to select the nodes, sometimes the envelopes just freeze, and sometimes when you are working with layers the envelopes just disappear.

Heck even if Cakewalk get's the envelope mess fixed the envelopes will still be one of my favorite features.

best,
mike

My favourite thing about SONAR 8.5 is that its progressed to a point where I don't think I'll ever need to buy another version of SONAR.

that's good for me but I guess not so good for Cakewalk. Still it had to happen one day. SONAR does all I can imagine doing with it. Good on you Cakewalk.

mudgel

My favourite thing about SONAR 8.5 is that its progressed
to a point where I don't think I'll ever need to buy another
version of SONAR.

that's good for me but I guess not so good for Cakewalk.
Still it had to happen one day.
SONAR does all I can imagine doing with it.
Good on you Cakewalk.

You only think that because you haven't yet imagined the fantastic
must have new features in SONAR 9 .. (or will it be SONAR 8.75?)

I am a fan of Auto Scroll Lock and the Transient Tool with a touch of Aim Assist, akes it much easier to edit on the fly.

To add my snide remark: I don't need my clip gain envelopes key bound, I record proper levels, so in the odd chance I need to change gain at a clip level, I would still need to find it in a menu, because I am sure I would forget the keybinding.

Tom

mike_mccue


My favorite feature in SONAR 8.5.1 is the automation envelopes.

I like that feature... so it seems a shame that envelopes are such a mess in SONAR; it's a pain to select the nodes, sometimes the envelopes just freeze, and sometimes when you are working with layers the envelopes just disappear.

Heck even if Cakewalk get's the envelope mess fixed the envelopes will still be one of my favorite features.

best,
mike

Lol, you took my answer Mike. 

I believe that this thread is more of an advertising/marketing tool. It's one of the first threads (currently the first) to be spotted by anyone who is new to Sonar or who is just looking into Sonar to see what it's like.
They'll see a thread about the positive side of Sonar before they get down to the complaints and issues.

Well thats just my outlook on it anyway   

I haven't had that much time to mess with it yet, however, the stability and the fact that it works so nicely with Win7 is what I like. the plugs are interesting to, expecially the vocal thing and I can't wait to use it in some mixes I have going on now.

Oh and that "Shift-E" function. Dunno what it's called and it may have been introduced in S8.0 - but I've fallen in love with it!!! Splendid! Just what I've been missing

Marius

I guess in an election this would be classed as a spoiled ballot paper by now.

But FWIW I made the jump from PE7 which I chose at the time as it out-competed everything else I looked at from the core functions to the bundled 'stuff'.

I can say that the audio engine seems much more efficient but I gather most of that happened at the 8 juncture there are shortcomings for sure but less than were apparent in 7 and looking around I don't see anything else for around the same money that's stormed ahead over what I'm using now and negated the original purchase decision I made.

The bundle I got with 7 was excellent value in the first place as I had no other plugs at that point but I've got plenty of useful additions to that original stuff during the upgrade than I had, including Dim Pro which I have found a use for now I've trimmed out 7 of the 8 megs of 'stuff' it plastered over my drive.  I'd say very little of the bundle doesn't get an outing once in a while and much of it gets used regularly.

Core wise editing looped sections while rewired or otherwise doesn't go haywire like it used to occasionally, the audio engine is streets ahead better than 7's, I probably crash my machine once a week rather than once a day (and usually because I do something dumb) and I don't run out of CPU grunt nearly as often or have to regularly reboot as I did in 7 to keep it running smoothly.  The whole thing IS more robust and improved over 7 on the same machine.

As a maintenance update it would work out at £50 pa on top of the original buy in price 2 years ago, there have been 2 new contenders arrive on the DAW block, namely Props' Record and Presonus Studio One in that time both of which have far more shortcomings than I'm currently faced with and none of the other also rans have improved enough to cause me a work-flow shift so to me it was a no-brainer upgrade, even more so as I was gifted the upgrade price which after all was down to being part of the family here...

It may be unfashionable to say and at risk of coming over all fanbouy like but I'm one happy camper for an 'upgrade/update' price of less than a single plug.

So I guess after all that overall my favourite feature would be value for money.

I like the ability arpeggiate anything midi.   Not that its all that constructive, but sometimes I just want Sonar to be a toy. 

-Tony

stickman393

Kate Watt [Cakewalk
]

Hello Everyone!

Now that SONAR 8.5's been on the market for a few months, we want to know... "What's your favorite feature?"

Hi Kate.

My favorite feature is the SFZ format and the SFZ player. I'd love to see an editor UI to make it a little easier to create my .SFZ files.

+1

Name: Thrills

Instrument: piano/guitar/bass

Fave Features: Channel Tools, and overall Rock-solid-ness. A BIG step up from 7.02

Like someone above, I am also "saving" my 8.5 upgrade for my new i7/windows 7 computer :)

I love the new vocal and drum processors. Superb