HS2002 is just SONAR's little brother. It's
A LOT better than CWPA and you probably won't miss a thing when you switch (well, I never missed anything). It's just a couple of things added, and a couple of things
improved. It's in
no way more limited than CWPA, IMHO.
If you're an amateur, in other words: you don't need to record more than one track at a time, don't need to hook it up to external boards or other difficult configurations involving the words 'smpte', 'timesync', 'Mackie' or 'Digidesign support' and don't need nondestructive midi editing (or don't need an update in the near future
) HS2002 might be perfect for your needs.
I have a feeling many of the Sonerds around here think HS2002 is very limited opposed to SONAR. Believe you me, it isn't. I've noodled around with the SONAR 2.2. demo last week and I still haven't found anything that justifies the extra $199,-. With the newly obtained DMA settings it's as stable as a....errrr.....a rock?.......SONAR?! (warning: don't trust the HS2002 waveprofiler, better download the SONAR demo and use that profiler to check out the right settings)
Although I've complained a lot lately about HS2002, I'm still a devoted HS2002 fanatic. Mainly because it's matches my needs
exactly at the moment...and I can't say my music suffers from using HS2002.