Re: Re: Re: Re: cubase vst 32 v.5 or sonar 2.0?
brzilian said:
That's not what people over at www.audioforums.comn are saying. Most Aarvark users there are fed up with the support (or lack thereof) from Aardvark in terms of decent drivers.
I frequently find when people have crap systems that don't run well they want to blame every available piece of software they have and not look to the reality that their system needs work, because that would involve.....*gasp* work.
It is so much more fun to sit around and gripe about drivers, about buggy programs, and about people who have their systems running well.
I use a Q-10 and record on Cubase SX. I have 4 ms latency, which is pretty damn hard to beat. My system has ran for the last 4 months with no glitches, hiccups, crashes, or audio dropouts. Pure flawless recording.
I just answered a post at another site where someone was bitching about how Q-10's were great but the driver was crap because his audio stopped playing if he switched screens between the Q-10's mixer board and his recording app. I pointed out that all he needed to do was click a box in his settings in his recording app and it solved the problem. He was most thankful and very polite to me, but it made me wonder how many other people he was badmouthing the drivers of the Q-10 to. He racanted by saying that he could now say the Q-10 was the best card out there, but damage may have already been done to other interested parties. This is all a bit of a digression from the original question, but anyone who says Q-10's drivers are not good is simply not doing their research. Are they timely? Well, appearently not in the past, but having gotten into the Q-10 6 months ago I have nothing but glowing recommendations about aardvark, their drivers, and their customer service.
Regarding better apps to record in. Yes, the Q-10 comes with a Cakewalk 9.0 pack-in, but that does not mean it runs better on the Q-10 than Cubase, it simply means the company got their product in there hoping that people would like it and upgrade to their more expensive programs since they would be familiar with the product line. The Q-10 runs just as good with Cubase as with Sonar. I have a friend who runs Sonar, and from what I have seen, it looked to me to be a bit easier to get the hang of initially, than Cubase. After seeing both programs in action Cubase looked to be a bit deeper than sonar, so I went that rout and I am extremely happy. But both are great programs that are comparable in general strength so I don't think you would go wrong with either one.
Your best bet is to download the free demo's of both programs and see which one suits your needs more.
