Sonar 3 announced

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 12:53 pm

Everybody is upgrading at once...Cakewalk has just announced Sonar 3 on their Web site.

http://www.cakewalk.com

I think the features I'm most excited about are the advanced MIDI routing (borrowed from Project5), the Lexicon reverb, VSampler, and the new flexible mixing busses (not as flexible as SFP, of course). Anyway, I'm looking forward to it very much!!

Shayne

petal · Post by **petal** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:06 pm

I see they now support vst instruments and effects - Does that mean that XTC will now work under Sonar? This was actually my main reason for not choosing Sonar in the first place - not that I really use, I just like to keep my options open.

Thomas

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:20 pm

XTC always worked with the VST adapter, but the I/Os didn't work in Sonar. I don't know if it'll act any differently now.

Shayne

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:42 pm

Wohoo!
Definately getting this!

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:34 am

All us Win98/ME users are starting to get left in the dust. Wish CW would update their 3DAT product so I could enter the 21st century with the rest of you. I've been eyeing Sonar for a while now. Many of my clients use Sonar for basic home recording. I've heard some Sonar-based productions. Very nice. Very pro.

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:16 am

don't worry... me too are struck with win98SE and cakewalk, but i already know what i will buy for christmas... a new PC and sonar3!

dehuszar · Post by **dehuszar** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 1:56 pm

I'm at Cubase 1.6 and deciding whether I should stay on this boat and go up to version 2 or capitalize on my Pro Audio 8 license and upgrade to Sonar 3.... Now that the WDM drivers and timing issues are ironing out, the in-track recycle-like functions and automation looks very intriguing. Can anyone who's used both comment on it, perhaps commenting on workflow differences (leaving bugs and crashes aside if such a thing can be done). I might DL the 2.x demo and just fiddle with it, but it'd be nice to get some experienced users input on the matter.

What's customer support like these days. They were great in the Cakewalk Pro Audio days, but times are hard and quality support is usually the first thing to go.

Sam

Ora · Post by **Ora** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:26 am

...stick with cubase...thats kind of a no brainer...that is if you are a major midi user..

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 11:49 am

Well, I'm a pretty stubborn Logic user right now, although I used to use Cakewalk up until v8, that's around the time when I got fed up with the timing (it was amazingly elastic for me with Pulsar, have no idea why, but it was a long time ago so it could have been flaky drivers at the time) and the crushingly slow audio clip redrawing.

However, I am pretty impressed with Sonar3, at least at the first glance.. as with everything, the proof is in the pudding.

By the way, Sonar3 will not support VST plugins/instruments 'natively' : it just comes with the adapter technology they bought from Fxpansion as standard in the package.

peace