I'm not kidding that it would be cool if Sonar had a Basic and Advanced Mode. It would have been cool to have an 8.5 editing mode! My problem is I just get busy working and recording and really don't have time to spend exploring options. I just happen to have been happier with 8.5's track editing. The other thing that's been bugging me is when you go to chop up or slip edit an audio track with automation on it. For now it's just as easy to tool copy to Wave lab. I'm just going to have to dig deeper into Sonars Keybindings and such. I guess it's not possible to have certain customization options available on a mouse click. In Wave lab this takes one swipe and a mouse click. Craig- my only frustration with Sonar is when I want to do something like lower or raise the level of one tiny phrase in an audio track. Just don't ask me to edit anything with it or make a mix down. I might find a use for it as a lightweight live recorder. Nothing happening here folks, keep moving, My family wasted $99 on my present so I'll pretend I use it a lot:) I think I can re sell it? I'm not totally sure it's registered because it does everything with the eLicencer. I could go on about every aspect of what I found but all I'm going to say is other than it's a solid stable DAW, it is weird to work with. I have tried demos of Reaper which seem to work more logical than this.
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For the life of me I could not get used to Cubase's weird layout and I never found how to have an effects send control added to the track inspector. And how visible the sends and the Reverb bus are, also how quickly we can pop open the GUI and make changes. I need to control both the level of the send, and the amount of the return. If I want to add reverb to my Vocal tracks, I plug in a reverb unit and use an aux send and return it to blend it back to the Master output. In other words I like to work as close to the way I am used to working with old school gear. I'll qualify myself by saying I like my DAW to more or less mimic the real world of audio. So I'm basing my experience with Elements with the understanding that the things I find lacking, are global to all versions. The layout and editing should all be the same. As a matter of fact we could open any version of Cakewalk and be OK. If this is not true someone please correct me.Īny one of use could open Plain Sonar x3 and set it up in a matter of minutes with nothing other than a few tools and plug ins missing. As far as the literature say's all Cubase versions work the same with layout and basic functions, you just get more stuff as the price goes up the same as Sonar.
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But unless there's way more to the basic features in the full version, I'm not impressed at all. Mind you I'm only using Elements which would be the same as using plain X3. Well I'm happy to report that Sonar blows Cubase away as far as I can tell after a week of recording a few songs from scratch in Cubase 7. Cubase still beats SONAR in several areas that are important to me (MIDI sends, tempo editing capabilities), but there's nothing new to get excited about. In terms of MIDI capabilities, not much happened.
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Also, Cubase 8 requires that you switch to an Aero visual theme on Windows - a requirement I was far less than thrilled about! There are some flakey UI issues that motivated me to return to Cubase 7.5 until the dust settles. The audio engine efficiency is said to be much improved, but I haven't had enough experience to see if that's meaningful to me. Cubase 8 did close one gap: it now has a plug-in manager - long overdue, IMO. This may not seem like a big deal until you miss having it. You can freeze, of course, but you can't see it. However, Cubase did not catch up to SONAR in the very simple (from user perspective) ability that replaces a frozen track with an audio track. Render in place makes this so easy that there's little excuse not to do it. good idea to render all the synth tracks.
Will you be able to recreate them a year from now? Before archiving any project with synths, it seems like a.very. Should anyone doubt the value of this, just consider the unknown state of Alchemy tracks in existing projects. Cubase 8 did indeed get a nice new feature in render-in-place. I don't have X3 (but do have X2), so I'm not completely current in my knowledge of SONAR. I think we need to try other DAW's just to see how it goes. Sonar has become bogged down with features which are a great asset for most, but a hindrance to others. I probably will always use Sonar, but for projects that I record that are mostly audio I really need better tools and editing. It's been a year and hours and hours working with it and I'm still feel like I'm wearing lead shoes. I really just hate Sonars editing, copy, paste and multiple mouse click, menu stuff.
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