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#1682882 - 07/09/05 04:01 PM Cubase SL3 or Sonar 4 studio?
WaterMan
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Although my Audiofire came with Tracktion 1, Mackie won't upgrade to Tracktion 2 without paying full price (seems bogus). Anyway, this combined with the fact that Tracktion is not that flexible with drum loops has me looking at Cubase and Sonar. I have relatively simple needs and will primarily be recording guitar, keyboards and vocals. I do want flexibility with loops (time stretching, automatic tempo adjust, ACID capability, etc.) so I'm wondering which of these would be better (simpler to use is good too) for my needs.

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#1682883 - 07/10/05 04:35 AM Re: Cubase SL3 or Sonar 4 studio?
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I've been very pleased with SONAR 4 Producer Edition. Some other studios I work at on occasion use Cubase and Nuendo. I'm very comfortable with all of them, but SONAR wins for me. One big reason is that it's for people who know Windows. If you know Windows, you'd love the workflow of SONAR.
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#1682884 - 07/10/05 01:19 PM Re: Cubase SL3 or Sonar 4 studio?
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I'm a (mostly quite) happy Sonar 4 user. (And I've been with the CW Pro/Sonar line since '96.)

I don't use the loop production environment much, but it seems to be pretty well integrated with the overall program and it's cited quite positively in a lot of reviews I've read of the program.

I understand there are some very good featues in various versions of Cubase, too, so you'll want to do your homework. But I can say that CW/Sonar has by and large been very useful and stable. Occasionally I've read a review of another DAW that had some intersting feature that Sonar didn't, but they've always been pretty good about catching up. And they've been out ahead on a lot of stuff (like the loop enironment, as I understand it). Like I said, overall, I've been very happy.


Oh... and since at least one other major DAW maker (not Yamaha/Steinberg) has started charging $199 per incident for support, it's worth noting that Cakewalk has a free email support policy for registered users. And it doesn't end in 90 days and isn't limited strictly to "installation" issues.
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#1682885 - 07/10/05 09:08 PM Re: Cubase SL3 or Sonar 4 studio?
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If you are not worried about sharing a common app with someone you are working with then
I think the choice has more to do with finding the user inteface you are comfortable/familiar with rather than with any significant technical performance difference.

If you run them on a decent machine I'd expect both these high res. applications should function and sound just fine.

I use and like Cubase. However, thats only cause I started with Cubase as a sequencer many moons ago and became used to it. For plain old music production in a personal/project setting I dont see any good reason to cause me to switch apps.
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#1682886 - 07/10/05 09:57 PM Re: Cubase SL3 or Sonar 4 studio?
Phillip Boshers
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It is work flow and getting used to the gui.
All the new recording apps will do the job.
I like Cubase to me Sonar looks and feels lile a tinker toy.
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#1682887 - 07/11/05 09:03 AM Re: Cubase SL3 or Sonar 4 studio?
timobrien
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Choice of sequencer is mainly user prefrerence....

http://www.hitsquad.com has links to legit demo versions of Cubase and Sonar and that's how I chose between them. Download them both and try them out.

(I chose Cubase but it was close. I would never have found the minor quibbles that swayed me over to Cubase had I not taken the time to work with both programs myself.)
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