You've answered your own question. Your usage isn't likely to get you in near enough trouble with Sonar to make it seem a problematic product.JJBiener wrote:I would be curious to know how many people who go around trashing Sonar have actually used it. I suspect there are people who just like to troll and gang up on whatever the subject is at hand.
Sonar, in its varying incarnations, has been my DAW of choice for the last 10 years. I have had a few problems over the years, but since X3, it has been completely solid for me. It's workflow works with my workflow. It's layout matches how I tend to think of recording. When I installed in on my current computer, I thought through how I wanted it to work for me and set the appropriate parameters.
Now, here's the caveat. I am not a power user. I have Sonar Artist, and I don't use 80% of the functionality. I wouldn't know what to do with the Professional version. For me, it is a VST host, MIDI/Audio recorder/editor, mixer and that's about it. I am old enough to have started on mag tape. I really haven't changed my process very much since then. My projects tend to be very linear. They are also very small, typically 5-10 tracks recorded from my MIDI keyboard. I do minimal editing. Rudimentary mixdown with a few plugins, and I am done.
For someone whose career has always revolved around technology, when it comes to music, I am a bit of a Luddite. When I am composing and recording, I don't want to fight my technology. My focus is music creation and I don't care if Sonar can do x, y and z. None of that matters when I am creating. I can see for people with a different process, the tools could be used creatively as a part of the process. For me, though, I have been playing and recording for 40+ years. I have the song in my head. I just need Sonar to capture it. That doesn't take much.
Whether Sonar will work for you or not depends, I guess, on how you intend to use it. I suspect if you load it up with 200 tracks and scores of plugins all fighting for processor time, then problems are more likely to occur. I suspect though that this is true of most programs, DAW and otherwise.
As a "power user" of six versions, however, I'm not trolling when I complain about Sonar. Could I just move on by these Sonar threads and not comment? Sure. But that's not my way. After a company has burned me, I think it's important to let people know it happens, especially when they're inquiring. I'm late to this thread, but I wanted to speak up for the people who spoke up already only to be called trolls.
