Sonar For Mac?

[Jim Roseberry]

I think Cake can give folks a hint at least. I can't see why not.

I agree... the Cakewalk folks should drop a line about the OSX version.

[Jim Roseberry]

I'm usually not a guy to pull off an extensive rant about a company, but, the way they supported Z3TA 2 was beyond horrible. Release a pimped up version of version 1, with no significant changes to the sound engine, do a few updates, and then people have to live for years with an update fixing major bugs in the synth. Then, after years, they release some updates, and fix SOME bugs, and now it's all silent again. As i have read many complaints about Sonar here, i doubt that it is much different for their DAW. At least the version i tried, Sonar X3, crashed on me on the first start, when doing a simple plugin scan (no DAW has ever done that before here).

Anyway, maybe in this case, they just don't manage it in time. Let's just say, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Not going to defend Cakewalk's support of Z3TA...

Was it HALion 4 or HALion 5 that brought that VSTi back from the grave.
It was dormant for several years...
The new features in HALion 6 (with custom scripts/etc) are enticing.

If Sonar crashed on a plugin scan, it had an issue with that particular plugin.
I've had this happen with several DAW applications (including Studio One v3 and Cubase 8.5/9).
These types of issues are usually pretty easy to work around.
If it was a bridged 32Bit plugin (common issue), remove it from the VSTi folder.

[lfm]

As i have read many complaints about Sonar here, i doubt that it is much different for their DAW. At least the version i tried, Sonar X3, crashed on me on the first start, when doing a simple plugin scan (no DAW has ever done that before here).

In defense of Cake here, what they do with monthly updates on sonar, and have been for two years now, is beyond what any vendor do. Not that every bug reported since years back are fixed, but still in the range of a list 25-50 each month.

Biggest culprit is rather support ticket side and communications side as in this topic.
And installers are not the strongest record either - too much inventing the wheel again with their CCC - and very serious issues with Rapture Pro on Mac when released as I recall, things were wiped out something.

Lately much to much of new usable features have been moved to Platinum. It used to be more about content, and Professional had all features. So not fond of that development. Paying for Platinum is too much lost money on content and synths that I don't need.

But keep an eye what is going on - and might go for Professional from my current Artist(dropped out subscription a year ago) that has aux tracks and patch points.

This lifetime thingy is not good in my view. I like being able to make a statement each year whether I pay again or not - strongest argument a customer have showing appreciation or discontent. So $100 annually to keep up on PT, Cubase or Sonar is quite alright I think.

[pwal]

I think Cake can give folks a hint at least. I can't see why not.

I agree... the Cakewalk folks should drop a line about the OSX version.

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