Im agreeing a lot of people buy all these really nice synths then run them and mix them through utter shit speakers and proccessors you have a good analog signal to start and good speakers to mix on... I hope your room has good sonic quallities aswell...

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right now im trying to get some mackies and a good reverb lexicon pcm91 hopefully....

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Originally posted by fr0st right now im trying to get some mackies and a good reverb lexicon pcm91 hopefully....

Good luck

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I read the thread and only saw 2 people who used this, and one of them only used it for some things. This puzzles me, coz its a fuc*%#g BRILLIANT sequencer, and definently deserves to be more popular than it is. The included Sonitus Fx plugin collection is second to none for quality, plus its fully VST compatable etc
This is pure personal opinion btw, but for PC, Sonar leaves Cubase and others out in the cold.

Anyway....i also use:

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Last edited by Invertika on May-21-2005 at 08:30

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Originally posted by Invertika p4 3.2ghz 512mb Sonar 4 - I read the thread and only saw 2 people who used this, and one of them only used it for some things. This puzzles me, coz its a fuc*%#g BRILLIANT sequencer, and definently deserves to be more popular than it is. The included Sonitus Fx plugin collection is second to none for quality, plus its fully VST compatable etc This is pure personal opinion btw, but for PC, Sonar leaves Cubase and others out in the cold.

Any demo's circulating on the net?

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Originally posted by Traiden Any demo's circulating on the net?

Yeah, get it here

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Originally posted by fr0st right now im trying to get some mackies and a good reverb lexicon pcm91 hopefully....

I also forgot to say that Sonar comes with a software modelled Lexicon reverb, commissioned and designed by Lexicon!! It sounds lovely!

cheers

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Originally posted by Invertika I also forgot to say that Sonar comes with a software modelled Lexicon reverb, commissioned and designed by Lexicon!! It sounds lovely! cheers

Id try it out but im mac based and i dont thin sonar is mac.... But for it to be as dense as the hardware lexicon it would be pretty CPU heavy.. I dont think software has reached that level just quite yet

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Hey. Sonar 4 is indeed great. I do use it on occasion but much less than FL Studio because I love the free form layout in FL Studio. I find it more productive with my needs. Sonar 4 definantly ranks up there with Cubase though. Cakewalk has been around for a very long time and they have strived in creating very good software. Thier PR department unfortunatley sucks so they dont have nearly as large of a market share in the world of Trance and EDM when compared to Cubase and many other hosts. It doesnt natively support VSTs though and that is a big minus. Though, for credit, they have created an almost flawless vst conversion program that takes VSTs and makes them DXs. Another issue I have with it, is thier lack of built in instruments and effects. It does come with several good lexicon reverbs including surround reverbs which are really fun to mess with but outside of that, many of thier plugins are lacking and or redundant. The only real synth built in is DreamStation which in all honesty, has some great potential, but being the only worthwhile instrument in the $1000 ($500 for the slitely stripped one) package is pretty sad. The only thing Sonar has going for it is its great multitracking abilities. In some instances, it kicks the crap out of Cubase. So where the line is drawn is if you have a lot of hardware and want to keep using hardware without software synths/effects, definantly go for Sonar, you wont regret it. If you are looking to do a mix of softsynths/effects and hardware while having a bit less in the realm of multitracking abilities, go for Cubase.

Just trying to show that Sonar isnt the best piece of software out there, just that it has its own very special place in music production.

Cheers,
Zac

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Hey man,
some good points about Sonar, I guess I did shell out the $1000, so I'm trying to justify it anyway i can... but it is awesome.

I gotta disagree about the included plugins, no instruments is true, but the fx plugins are fantastic. The compressor and multiband compressor sound gorgeous, and theres a nifty linear phase eq, a sweet delay and a cool stereo imager, plus more, and there all on par with the waves package IMO (i have both and i compared).

btw i know this isn't a Sonar vs Cubase thread, so i won't say anymore

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