have you tried reaper?chk071 wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:35 am Well exactly.
The latest trend: "Why Studio One should have Bitwig's features."
Cakewalk is “dead”?
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- addled muppet weed
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- KVRAF
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Yay, Reaper sarcasm, I never would have guessed.chk071 wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:12 pm Of course. The Chuck Norris of DAW's. It can do everything the others do, and then some.If you write a script for it.
Duh
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- addled muppet weed
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i thinks a new band name 
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- KVRian
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It used to be a buggy mess for sure. But that was years ago and now it's actually really nice and quite stable.
My hobbyist music!
https://on.soundcloud.com/xKcyMkP2jDDyw4tuXj
https://on.soundcloud.com/xKcyMkP2jDDyw4tuXj
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For freeware they are pretty damn awesome now. Of course if you can afford commercial you have more choice.
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I am opening legacy projects in the new versions of Cakewalk with no issues....JerGoertz wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:38 pmThis is encouraging to hear. Do you happen to know if this Bandlab version is backwards compatible with earlier Sonar versions?digitalboytn wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:03 amThey have stripped out a lot of the bloat and as a result, the program runs faster and is more efficient than ever before...
I agree with you on principle here... However, back when I used Sonar, the thing was crashing to the desktop about once every five minutes under mild-moderate VST load, using plugins that caused no problems in other hosts I tried. Ain't no issue of "workflow", "idiosyncracies", or "human error".The most important thing is to be conversant with the workflow and work with any idiosyncracies that exist within the programs to achieve the results we are after...
Too often,we are quick to criticize the tools that we have at our disposal and not look at one of the major causes of failure within the supply chain...
Human error
Computers are rather complex beasts with large amounts of variables,so there is rarely a one size fits all situation...
That said,my DAWs are put together for the purpose of having a stable environment for music production and it has always been that way...
I don't need them to make coffee or to be distracted by world events,so they are not connected to the internet and there are very few extra program installed that are not related to music production...
They are all Win 7 Pro x64 which is a well proven OS and the MBs and CPUs in the main machines were updated to Ryzens a little while ago...
They work great and crunch the numbers just fine with very a low power draw and low thermal dissipation...
I found Sonar to be a very stable program - even from the very first version and Cakewalk had a close working relationship with Microsoft to help with development on a mutual level...
I know people say that they found Sonar buggy,but that may have been a result of their overall system,rather than the individual program itself...
My experience was that it was a powerful and stable program,especially after Sonar 8.5e and the only reason I changed was because of Gibson buying the company...
Now that has been ressurected (with the CTO still in place) I would happily use it as my the main program in my DAWs and the results would be just fine...
If people built DAWs that just focus purely on music production,they were have more stable workstations with considerably less conflicts and issues
No auto tune...