Personally, I think too much is made of cluttered menus. Cubase is cluttered, Reaper is cluttered, but they are powerful DAWs. Sonar is less cluttered than either of those two, and after using it for a few months I found it very easy to use and navigate. I think that in a 30 year old DAW it is too hard and too expensive in man hours to recode all that stuff.
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- KVRAF
- 2415 posts since 28 Mar, 2007
Anything else which was available before didn't really cut it.-
- KVRAF
- 23472 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
There seems to be a great misunderstanding - Sonar's Skylight interface is as cluttered or un-cluttered as you want it (that's Skylight's main point basically). You have (easy) access to extensive control over what and what is not currently shown on the screen and setting up and switching between different screensets could not be easier.dellboy wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 7:54 pmPersonally, I think too much is made of cluttered menus. Cubase is cluttered, Reaper is cluttered, but they are powerful DAWs. Sonar is less cluttered than either of those two, and after using it for a few months I found it very easy to use and navigate. I think that in a 30 year old DAW it is too hard and too expensive in man hours to recode all that stuff.
For this reason the menus are barely required or in the way.
"Preamps have literally one job: when you turn up the gain, it gets louder." Jamcat, talking about presmp-emulation plugins.
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- KVRAF
- 2279 posts since 9 Jun, 2002 from East of Santa Monica
The "basic, free version" is not cut down or limited in any way. In fact, you can think of it as exactly like the previous version, Cakewalk's flagship Sonar, only without the extra bundled VSTs.
Bottom line -- no, there are no "addons" or "feature enhancements" (unless you mean adding your own VSTs, which of course is up to the user).
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christianmusicmaker christianmusicmaker https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=12152 - KVRAF
- 1670 posts since 1 Feb, 2004 from UK
Yes. It is very flexible.jens wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 9:04 am There seems to be a great misunderstanding - Sonar's Skylight interface is as cluttered or un-cluttered as you want it (that's Skylight's main point basically). You have (easy) access to extensive control over what and what is not currently shown on the screen and setting up and switching between different screensets could not be easier.
For this reason the menus are barely required or in the way.
