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Topic: Sonar will be available for MAC's |
Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 2:36 am |
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| Sonar has announced that a "beta" version will be available for MAC's in September. Up to this point Sonar has been a Windows only recording program. |
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Rick Schacter
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Portland, Or.
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Posted 16 Jun 2016 2:46 pm
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Yep, I read this over at their forum a couple of days ago.
It will be interesting to see how many Mac users will be interested.
I'd be tempted to try out Sonar again just out of curiosity. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Rick Schacter
From:
Portland, Or.
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 12:43 pm
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I became interested in recording back in high school when my band won a talent show/contest.
The prize was recording time with a local mobile recording unit.
I will never forget how excited I was when the mobile unit drove up into my parents drive way to record my band.
The unit had a 16 track reel to reel (don't remember what brand or model).
This was around 1978(?).
Then I became interested in home recording in the early 80's when I bought a Tascam 22-4 reel to reel. Then later on I bought an ADAT when they came out.
To see what is possible these days with a laptop computer, a spare room and a little creativity can only be described with one word,IMO...REMARKABLE!
Rick |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 3:00 pm
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My first recording session was 1960 at Carpenter's Music in Biloxi Ms. They had a tape but don't know what kind and cut us a demo on a 78 rpm.
I was the staff steeler and also maintained a small recording studio in Kansas City, Mo in the late 70's (Big K Records). He had a Tascam 4 track and later an 8 track and Tascam board. He would bounce tracks in order to get open tracks. He would mixdown to a two track Ampex recorder.
I started my own recording in late 90's, after I retired. A 4 track Tascam cassette recorder. From there to a hard drive Fostex and then to Computer with Sonar. I have a friend that designed and built some recording studios in the 80's and he is amazed at what I can do. I recently upgraded (twice - first time I sent it back) to an MOTU 896mk3 Hybrid. Its even made in the US. |
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Rick Schacter
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Portland, Or.
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Posted 17 Jun 2016 3:44 pm
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In all the blabbering that I did in my last post, I forgot to mention that Sonar looks like a very impressive DAW. I guess I was overwhelmed. Lol
Sonar is what I used before switching to Studio One.
I see that they've added the drag and drop feature for plugins like Studio One.
That's a nice change that they added since I left.
I don't remember that feature in Sonar X3 (my last version).
I saw a couple of complaints about stability on the Sweetwater web site.
Now...I know you can't please everybody and some people have ridiculous expectations for their setup (using an outdated system and wondering why things crash).
So I'll ask you, Jack.
Is Sonar a stable DAW?
What kind of track count are you getting and with how many plugins? |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 18 Jun 2016 2:39 am
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Sonar is stable. I've never had Platinum crash. I only recall having one crash with X3 and that was caused by something stupid I did not Sonar. Like you say there are also some that will have problems no matter what, and that is true of any DAW or even OS.
I have an i7 3770 CPU and 16GB of RAM. It is more than enough for what I do, mostly small 8 to 12 track sessions and rarely any MIDI. I see others on the Sonar forums that have less hardware and still do a lot of MIDI. I had a sample project that had over 100 tracks and my PC purred right along.
I have an iLok for some of my plug-ins and no problems with that either. |
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Rick Schacter
From:
Portland, Or.
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Posted 18 Jun 2016 8:09 am
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| Thanks, Jack. |
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Billy Phelps
From:
Katy, Texas
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Posted 29 Jun 2016 5:28 am Recording Gear
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I have been using Cakewalk since the 80's ( midi ).
When they came out with sonar 2.0, I upgraded every second year and now I am on Platinum.
IMHO, The latest Sonar Series is absolutely stable.
My computers are all hand built by myself.
ASUS mobo
5820 Intel processor
32 gig ram @ 1600
Nividia Video 4 gig
Motu 896 X thunderbolt
Motu 828 X thunderbolt
Studio 192 USB 3
I also use Pro Tool 12.5, Cubase, Studio 3, and several other audio programs.
Sonar is by far the easiest to operate and understand.
Hope this helps everyone.
Billy Phelps
Full Circle Sound
I can't wait for it to come out on Mac. |
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