Cubase & Sonar

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Yeah, I know......... I'm not as dumb as I look.


It sounds like the two have become more similar as time goes on. It's like that with a lot of products: developers incorporate the good features, and discard the bad or less useful ones. It sounds like both [top of the line] products are pretty complete.

Given the history of how these two do things, when would you guess we'll see either one update?
 
New (significant updates) versions of both have JUST been released in the past 2 months. It should be a couple years before another major release.
 
Hard2Hear said:
New (significant updates) versions of both have JUST been released in the past 2 months. It should be a couple years before another major release.
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Updates have only been released for the top of the line products. This would indicate that we may see updates to Cubase SE 3 and Sonar Home Studio 4 in the next year to bring them up to date with their bigger brothers.

Also, Cakewalk has moved to a yearly update cycle for Sonar. That means Sonar 7 could be out as early as Q4 2007.
 
brzilian said:
Also, Cakewalk has moved to a yearly update cycle for Sonar. That means Sonar 7 could be out as early as Q4 2007.
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This is correct. From Sonar 5 to 6 was roughly a year, and Cakewalk was also out with a S6 update within a couple weeks after initial release.
 
From reading, it seems to me that the two are pretty close, and that if one has an edge, it is that Cubase seems to have slightly fewer problems in its functions, while Sonar has some features which people find slightly more attractive. [I say slightly. I don't mean to infer than Sonar has 50 more features but stumbles around like a drunk.] If they are that close, and if my understanding, that Sonar sells more, is correct, then it must the that the price difference gives Sonar the edge, eh? Some people must prefer Sonar, but others must be convinced that the performance difference does not justify the price difference.
 
Reilley said:
From reading, it seems to me that the two are pretty close, and that if one has an edge, it is that Cubase seems to have slightly fewer problems in its functions, while Sonar has some features which people find slightly more attractive. [I say slightly. I don't mean to infer than Sonar has 50 more features but stumbles around like a drunk.] If they are that close, and if my understanding, that Sonar sells more, is correct, then it must the that the price difference gives Sonar the edge, eh? Some people must prefer Sonar, but others must be convinced that the performance difference does not justify the price difference.
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Cakewalk has a wider distribution base. Some of their products are in stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. Cubase is based in Germany, or at least it was? :confused: That explains a lot of the popularity, it is simply easier to find.

The old cakewalk sequencers were VERY popular in the 90s, when they were strictly midi sequencers. A lot of their customers ( like me) have been with them for many years and are familiar with how they do things. To master any of these programs is a steep learning cure. I can say now that I have SONAR down cold, but it took a long time to know all the tricks it can do. When I look at another format like Cubase, I realize how much I have invested in learning Sonar, so it's not worth a jump to another platform. Its what you are used to.
 
Thanks. As for your conclusion, a lot of people say that, so for all their similarities, they must have significant differences in how they do things. It must not be like MS Office vs. Wordperfect.
 
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