tubedude
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This was posted on the Sonar newsgroup and I copied it over. If anyone feels this is all too true and that these are great ideas, mail cakewalk at let them know you think so. Cakewalks address for Sonar support is:
sonarsupport@cakewalk.com
"There are a number of upgrades that need to be made for me to consider Sonar
to be competitive in the pro market.
One... when I'm ready to do final cuts, I go to a studio with a good room to
track drums. When they are done, I track the rest at my personal studio.
Most nice studios use protools. What happens if I try to open a protools
omf file in Sonar? It farts and says no-no. I think OMF support should be
a given, not an afterthought. The new Digital Performer looks REALLY nice,
and I'm considering switching BECAUSE it can import and export OMF files.
In the EQ Pro forums, there have been quite a few people switching from
thier original software to DP3 citing this as one of their reasons. Makes
sense. I have a drum file I cannot work on as we speak, with Sonar, because
of this silliness. Another thing to consider, is that if Sonar supports .omf
files, you will be able to import/export from Digital Performer AND
ProTools, and the Digi001's ProTools LE, AND whatever other software
supports it, I think Paris or SAWPRO does also. Things start getting better
when you can swap files around with other people without having everyone in
the world have the same damn software. It sucks to have to try to mix drums
in a simple stereo track when you COULD be mixing them from the original 10
tracks and getting it right. Any Amens out there?
Two... there needs to be a few features leaning it more towards a "complete"
package. Cubase offers UV-22 dithering (very nice), Sonar needs a high
quality built in dither, maybe UV-22, since its the industry standard. Or
at least offer it as a cheap add on with the CD burner idea that I'll get to
in a minute.
How about a plug-in frequency analyzer? Very pro feature there, works just
like a directx plug, put em where you want em, individual track or on the
main outs. Simple add on, yet no manufacturers really bother. Sad.
A nice CD burning add on would be nice too, directly from Sonar. No needing
to save everything to a separate file and then open a different program and
then import them and then do your thing. My idea... open a window in Sonar
from the toolbar, it lists all the songs in Sonar, pick the ones you want,
and it loads em up, ready to burn to disk or to apply some
mastering/leveling, kinda like Wavelab allows you to do.
And lastly, how about a 48 or 56 bit super high quality parametric eq and
reverb, and maybe a nice tape saturator, like Magneto or Fatso Jr.
Theres nothing wrong with having one program that does it all, and I have a
hard time figuring out why someone doesnt go the extra distance and make it
happen. I have hopes that Cakewalk will stay smart and keep doing what no
one else is doing, but we still need those things that should be givens more
than we need the next technological not-quite-ready breakthrough.
Anyone agree? Email Cakewalk and let em know. They listen pretty well.
Peace. "
sonarsupport@cakewalk.com
"There are a number of upgrades that need to be made for me to consider Sonar
to be competitive in the pro market.
One... when I'm ready to do final cuts, I go to a studio with a good room to
track drums. When they are done, I track the rest at my personal studio.
Most nice studios use protools. What happens if I try to open a protools
omf file in Sonar? It farts and says no-no. I think OMF support should be
a given, not an afterthought. The new Digital Performer looks REALLY nice,
and I'm considering switching BECAUSE it can import and export OMF files.
In the EQ Pro forums, there have been quite a few people switching from
thier original software to DP3 citing this as one of their reasons. Makes
sense. I have a drum file I cannot work on as we speak, with Sonar, because
of this silliness. Another thing to consider, is that if Sonar supports .omf
files, you will be able to import/export from Digital Performer AND
ProTools, and the Digi001's ProTools LE, AND whatever other software
supports it, I think Paris or SAWPRO does also. Things start getting better
when you can swap files around with other people without having everyone in
the world have the same damn software. It sucks to have to try to mix drums
in a simple stereo track when you COULD be mixing them from the original 10
tracks and getting it right. Any Amens out there?
Two... there needs to be a few features leaning it more towards a "complete"
package. Cubase offers UV-22 dithering (very nice), Sonar needs a high
quality built in dither, maybe UV-22, since its the industry standard. Or
at least offer it as a cheap add on with the CD burner idea that I'll get to
in a minute.
How about a plug-in frequency analyzer? Very pro feature there, works just
like a directx plug, put em where you want em, individual track or on the
main outs. Simple add on, yet no manufacturers really bother. Sad.
A nice CD burning add on would be nice too, directly from Sonar. No needing
to save everything to a separate file and then open a different program and
then import them and then do your thing. My idea... open a window in Sonar
from the toolbar, it lists all the songs in Sonar, pick the ones you want,
and it loads em up, ready to burn to disk or to apply some
mastering/leveling, kinda like Wavelab allows you to do.
And lastly, how about a 48 or 56 bit super high quality parametric eq and
reverb, and maybe a nice tape saturator, like Magneto or Fatso Jr.
Theres nothing wrong with having one program that does it all, and I have a
hard time figuring out why someone doesnt go the extra distance and make it
happen. I have hopes that Cakewalk will stay smart and keep doing what no
one else is doing, but we still need those things that should be givens more
than we need the next technological not-quite-ready breakthrough.
Anyone agree? Email Cakewalk and let em know. They listen pretty well.
Peace. "
