Reply To: Free Sonar Tier

[dsteinschneider]

Good thread – I enjoy spirited debate, even online as long as the trolls haven’t arrived 🙂

I expected Bandlab to begin offering a perpertual version-bound license for around the price of Reaper. Sonar Premium for $49/year is almost in that ballpark. For some reason I still don’t want to pay that even though I’m happy re-upping Cantabile and Reaper. I just prefer the freedom of deciding when and if I’ll “re-up” for the latest features.

I also believe they will not feel forced to discontinue Sonar and that it will be around, it just might be with a slow enhancement pace.

I’m hetero-DAW. I track and edit midi in Reaper, then move it over to Mixbus Pro v10 to track guitars/vocals and then mix. I still use CbB at my band’s studio and we’re OK so far with the changes. I recommended the studio move over to a Mac-Mini M4 and Logic for $800 but they didn’t bite on that.

BTW, Fireworks circa 2003 is still my graphics editing program – if it gets the job done, I’m good.

EDIT – Just installed Cakewalk Sonar via the Cakewalk Product Center. Loaded up one of our songs and everything seems to be working. It looks much better on our 4K monitor. This is my first look at Sonar, been using CbB up until now.

 

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