Recording Software

[jeffe]

Doesn't seem like it to me. BTW. Sonar is Cakewalk. That's probably why they looked so alike I'm sure we all have our own preferences. I've just grown accustomed to Sonar.

[edteja]

I agree that with any software, or any complex system, what you get used to first makes sense and anything else is odd, hard to use and so on. I use SONAR, I used Cakewalk in pre SONAR days, I've used Kristal and Cooledit Pro, and I have dinked around with Cubase. So far I like SONAR best, but that has a lot to do with what I do and how I do it. (My work is a mix of recording and Midi) Heck, I keep learning new things about SONAR every day. I figure it will take quite some time before I have all the features I use figured out completely.

[thestudioaz]

yeah, I was joking around a bit, but I really do use Cubase SX3 most of the time, it's what I learned on and what I'm comfortable with. As far as transfering between sessions and platforms... last month we had to take 4 tracks to a studio in Orange, CA for a drum session. They of course have PTHD. We had to do a dirty mixdown and export everything as .wav files for the transfer from Cubase. We included a click track for sanity, lol. Everything imported fine, the drummer did about 5 takes on each track, we had to re-export as .wav files, and transferred 15 gigs of drum tracks back into Cubase here at home. Everything lined up, no problem. Just glad I brought that 300 gig external drive with me! So even if you can't import your eq settings and vst/efx etc, theres ways to get around it. I've only been doing this a couple years, I've been a musician all my life so the whole engineering gig is still new to me. But there's always a way if your creative, and the platform should be what your comfortable with and can be productive with... imho. Okay, I'll go back to being goofy now. I hate being all growed up, lol!

[mazz]

Quote:yeah, I was joking around a bit, but I really do use Cubase SX3 most of the time, it's what I learned on and what I'm comfortable with. As far as transfering between sessions and platforms... last month we had to take 4 tracks to a studio in Orange, CA for a drum session. They of course have PTHD. We had to do a dirty mixdown and export everything as .wav files for the transfer from Cubase. We included a click track for sanity, lol. Everything imported fine, the drummer did about 5 takes on each track, we had to re-export as .wav files, and transferred 15 gigs of drum tracks back into Cubase here at home. Everything lined up, no problem. Just glad I brought that 300 gig external drive with me! So even if you can't import your eq settings and vst/efx etc, theres ways to get around it. This is exactly the way to successfully transfer tracks back and forth to different platforms. Way to go.