Sonar 4 or Home Studio 2004XL?

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Hi,
I've been using Home Studio 2004 (not 2004 XL) recently with a friend on his computer.

We're both fairly new to DAW recording, though not to multitracking in general.

In reading about Sonar 3 and 4 I can see that as I acquire my own DAW (research is almost complete, thanks, in part to some people here), I will be using more and more of the kinds of features that Sonar 4 seems to include -plug-ins, nudging etc.. I'll also be using MIDI increasingly as I learn more about it.

I am wondering what people's suggestions would be about the relative merits of buying H.S. 2004 XL versus taking the full plunge and getting Sonar 4.

A second major question is how well do HS 2004XL and Sonar 3 work with third party VST and DX plug-ins?

Thanks,

Geert, in Toronto
 
I have been using the Home Studio line for about 4 years now (since HS2002). I have not seen any major reason to upgrade to Sonar. You should probably hold off a bit because I get the feeling Cakewalk will be releasing the new version of HS (it will probably be called HS3) fairly soon. Based on the trend in previous versions, HS3 will most likely be based off of Sonar 3.

HS already supports VST plug-ins and HS2 comes bundled with the VST Adapter from Cakewalk.

I have had no issues with 3rd party DXi plug-ins like Native Instrument's line of DXi softsynths with my HS2004XL.
 
brzilian said:
I have been using the Home Studio line for about 4 years now (since HS2002). I have not seen any major reason to upgrade to Sonar. You should probably hold off a bit because I get the feeling Cakewalk will be releasing the new version of HS (it will probably be called HS3) fairly soon. Based on the trend in previous versions, HS3 will most likely be based off of Sonar 3.

HS already supports VST plug-ins and HS2 comes bundled with the VST Adapter from Cakewalk.

I have had no issues with 3rd party DXi plug-ins like Native Instrument's line of DXi softsynths with my HS2004XL.
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Hi,
Thanks for this.

I've been having some problems getting my Alesis SR-16 to work with HS2004, and some other problems with MIDI in HS2004. I'm impressed by the specs. of HS, but can't entirely rule out that HS2004 might be part of the reason for the glitches.

However, I will take your advice and keep eyes and ears open for a potential HS3 release.

Thanks once again for the reply.

Geert, in Toronto.
 
Hey brzilian...is HS2004XL and HSv2XL the same thing? I just got v2XL and I like it (I was using Sonar 2xl on a friends system)....pretty much the same feel. I knew I should have waited on it with them coming out with Sonar 4 and all I was thinking they would come out with a newer HS.
 
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