jlgrimes wrote: ↑22 Nov 2017
Social Exodus wrote: ↑22 Nov 2017
My "other" (and now apparently former) DAW is kaput.
Thing is, I paid for so-called "Lifetime Subscription" which was supposed to entitle me to endless updates. That lasted 17 months. I was a fan of their subscription model at the time but now I see that they took everyone's money knowing the ship was sinking while also (by license) preventing SONAR users from selling their licenses.
So I guess I've learned a few things:
- Never trust a "Lifetime" anything offer. It's likely bullshit.
- Propellerheads (the company) isn't as bad as all the complaints (in some quarters) about them seem to indicate. At least not yet.
- The idea of a stand alone dedicated machine DAW is looking better and better for a non-professional engineer like me.
- I'll touch a Gibson (the owners of Cakewalk and the perps in our story) guitar when Satan has icicles in his beard. Henceforth, they are Fibson to me.
- The "Music Industry" is far more "industry" than "music" now.
- Lester Bangs was right; “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
I used to use Sonar almost exclusively but stopped about 7 years or so ago.
The main DAW that got me off of Sonar (for audio) was Reaper. It did most of what Sonar could do and only for $60 (even though Reaper didn't do that well with midi). Reaper is also surprisingly stable where Sonar tended to be buggy especially during a major release.
It really sealed the deal when Sonar released X1. On paper it seemed like it would be badass. I bought the upgrade and tried to use it in a project. It was the most buggy experience I've had with software to date. I stopped using Sonar after that. That said I have alot of old Sonar projects I probably will have a hard time trying to open. Sonar actually had some great audio functions, I think they released a little too many buggy releases. I went over to a Reaper forum and realized a great chunk of those users were former Sonar users.
I have a Reaper license as well that is STILL giving me dot upgrades 3 years later for $60. In that world, it will be my new DAW of choice for guitar recording using TH3 (assuming my Cakewalk "upgrade" is still legit). I haven't used it much, but that will change more than likely as the details of Cakewalk's shutdown by Fibson become clearer. I like Reaper mostly because of it's development and ownership model really since no large (greedy) corporation owns them. As soon as I figure out which of my purchases that were piggy backed off Cakewalk SONAR Platinum will work outside of SONAR, I'll know what and where to go next -- if anywhere at all.
Reason has come a long way in terms of guitar capabilities as well, especially now that my Line 6 POD Farm Platinum works in Reason with the addition of VST support. From where I sit, I prefer Reason's native Rack Extensions for everything else though as they are simply more stable, provide proper undo/redo support and are "rack centric". I can see myself as a Reason only guy having invested a large sum of disposable income here (as well as SONAR) on rack extensions already and needing no others in the foreseeable future.