stick with sonar ? or give it a shot?

[_ronin75_]

So I stared to fuck around with cubase SX and I learned that it has a real steep learning curve ...

Can't get amplitube to work properly as a vst plugin (only as a DX go figure) and for some reason sf2 files are not recognised by halion as fast as livesynth did in cakewalk

I cant even find how to enable the freaking piano roll (that is BEFORE recording midi in) as is freatured in cakewalk ...
so I can start programming some basic drumtracks ....

regarding the amplitube problem I explained it a bit more alaborate on this thread
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?postid=816952#post816952

could someone point me in the right direction here coz I'm realy starting to freak out

 

[Robertyu]

You can create the empty midi clip in the empty midi track by clicking and dragging over a bit in the empty midi track. That will create the empty midi clip, and then you can double-click on the empty midi clip to open the piano roll editor. If you assign a drum map to the track before you double-click the midi clip, then it will open the drum editor when you double-click.

I will say this however, that Sonar 2.2 seems FAR ahead of Cubase SX as far as midi editing IMHO. I own both, but admit to still be somewhat learning Cubase SX.

From what I have seen so far, Sonar does stuff with the piano roll editor that Cubase struggles with. Overlaying notes from multiple tracks in the piano roll editor with Sonar is way better than how it's done in Cubase. I use this feature frequently in Sonar to make sure I'm lining up certain notes from different instruments (or avoiding doing so for backbeats, etc). Cubase does do it, but it's very clumsy compared to Sonar. The way Sonar handles notes in the piano roll editor for neighboring clips on the same track is also superior IMHO. Cubase greys-out notes neighboring clips on the same track just because they are in a different clip than what you double-click on. That's retarded IMHO. Cubase needs to add those cool track filtering features inside the piano roll editor to catch up IMHO.

The thing that really kills me is I don't see any scrub feature in the Cubase SX midi piano roll editor at all! Perhaps I have not found it (I read than 700+ page manual cover to cover), and/or suffer from my own retardation, but I can't find it. This just kills me because I like to preview chords I'm creating/editing, and check scale structure on complex pasages without playing it back in real time. Sonar makes this type of midi editing and chord compostion/previewing extremely easy with the scrub line you drag across the notes or click on the chords.

Now, if I could just get these two things worked out with Cubase SX, I would never go back to Sonar again most likely. I like Cubase that much over the rest of Sonar.