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This might help from the Cakewalk Sonar Forum, posted by a Cakewalk Forum Administrator: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=750994

Have both. Sonar 5 wins - hands down for me.

I used Sonar 4 for about 3 months before Sonar 5 came out. I have, so far, found virtually no difference in cpu resources between the 2. However, I think workflow has an impact on this as I generally record in midi first and then bounce everything to audio after the midi is where I want it...

I think, if you have an intuitive mind and pretty much understand what you are doing, you will find Sonar easy to use . . . and not so easy to master. It will take some work and familiarity with the program but it is not difficult to produce a decent output. Just read the manual, do the...

I'm not sure you can do this in Sonar with audio tracks. That's why I always start with midi tracks where you can control things like tempo. After I get the midi where I want it I either bounce it to a audio track or send it to a soft synth.

Filtering is very easy in Sonar. Select the clip and while it is selected select the filter dialog and choose your settings. Then either copy or delete, depending on what you wish to accomplish, and you're all set. I use this feature a lot on midi data that is already recorded.

The problem with 64 bit right now is that most of the plug-ins are not too friendly with 64 bit. Sonar 5 will run a 64 bit floating point audio engine in a 32 bit environment and it does sound pretty good. My system is built around an AMD 64 bit 3500+ chip and I'm quite pleased with it.

What direction do you want to go with your music? What will your system support? We need more information in order to give you some valid help.

If you look at the system requirements for Sonar you'll see that the minimum is for a P4 1.3 ghz with 128mb RAM. You WILL have problems trying to run at the minimum level. The recommended is P4 2.8ghz or Athlon 64 2800+ with 512mb RAM. If you plan on using many plug-ins or effects you...

Sonar won't show your sound card in MIDI options. Go to Audio options and you should find it there. You will then need to select your sound card drivers and run the wave profiler. HTH

from the System Requirements page for Sonar 5 on Cakewalk DOT com" "Please Note: SONAR 5 does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000."

Which drivers are you using? Asio? WDM? MME? I'm not familiar with the firepod but when I was setting up my PCI Audiophile 192 I discovered that which drivers I used made a difference when setting latency and buffers.

You can download a demo version of Sonar from the Cakewalk web site. Then you can see if it will satisfy your needs.

There is an entire forum on CakewalkDOTcom dedicated just to Project 5. You should be able to find more help there than you can imagine. Most of the people who populate that forum are extremely helpful. Oh yes, don't forget the online help in P5. Just press F1. Here is the link...

I select the entire mix but have the 2 MIDI tracks muted so they're not a factor. No This is a good idea I hadn't thought of. I'll try that and let you know what happens. Thanks for the suggestions.

Dimension Pro is Cake's new Software Synth.

I finished a mix a couple of nights ago which consisted of 2 MIDI tracks driving hardware synths and 3 Dimension Pro tracks. I recorded the 2 HW synth tracks to an audio track and then muted the MIDI tracks. I tweaked the final mix to where it sounded like what I wanted it to sound like and then...

What are your MIDI tracks driving for sound? HW synths? Softsynths? Look on page 429 in the manual. Your answer is there.