I've been reading through this subject of moving from sonar to other daws. ive looked at most discussed and for me the 3 best daws to move to would be fl studio, tracktion waveform and bitwig. as for price waveform cross grade starts from under £50 to £79 if you have vst instruments and loops of your own the £50 version should be fine. a bit quirky to start but once you get to know where everything is this program is an animal. ive always been a fl studio user and this another dark horse. can set it up any way you wish and comes with an arsenal of effects and plugins plus free life time updates I don't know too much about bigwig but from what I saw I liked it.
what annoys me is people jump onto another daw don't read the manual and because it don't work or they don't know where their vsts are the program is deemed crap. I'm now using waveform and believe me when I say it makes sonar look like an 8 bit program. I don't have to keep paying for program to receive updates and the support is very good and quick to respond, the same said with flstudio. I watched a few tutorials for wave form then was hooked. its still a baby but watch this space its gonna be a contender
I left sonar at sonar8.5 returned to sonar artist and realised they just nicked the interface from project 5 basically was project 5 jazzed up but what killed it for me was I buy the program then after a year forced to basically pay for updates again for another or be left behind , couldn't swallow that this is where greed gets you sad to say
from sonar to waveform
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- KVRer
- 8 posts since 28 Dec, 2017
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- KVRAF
- 3386 posts since 21 May, 2004 from Deep in the Heartlessness of Texas
If you haven't already done so, you may want to read through the threads in the Tracktion forum here on KVR:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=22
There are some issues with WaveForm 8 that some of us find to be show-stoppers. Other people don't find that to be the case.
However it parses out for you, you may want to play with the WaveForm 9 beta, which has a public beta. It's unclear as of yet, but I'm thinking that the bugs in v8 aren't going to get addressed; it's entirely possible that you're just going to have to upgrade to v9 when it rolls out.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=22
There are some issues with WaveForm 8 that some of us find to be show-stoppers. Other people don't find that to be the case.
However it parses out for you, you may want to play with the WaveForm 9 beta, which has a public beta. It's unclear as of yet, but I'm thinking that the bugs in v8 aren't going to get addressed; it's entirely possible that you're just going to have to upgrade to v9 when it rolls out.