Logic
Intuitive.... well that is pushing it in the beginning. I too had a ton of problems getting logic Audio fired up and ready to go. However... after you get through the first day or two of adjusting yourself to their "environment(s)" then it is really like having a virtual studio all laid out for you with easy to click through screen sets. "Cabeling things in" makes it feel as if you were actually plugging in a piece of hardware. Logic Audio Platinum comes with plug ins that are just simply amazing. So many different kinds of reverbs, compressors, chorus, flangers, spectral gates, phasers, 7 or 8 different equilizers, noise gates, and a ton more that I just haven't gotten around to exploring yet, like ensemblers, and bit crushers (whatever that is... just makes things sound like a robot).
Now I have never used Sonar so I can't compare Logic Audio to ANYTHING. It is my first and probably only software. I know that the support, both on-line and telephone is AMAZING. I sent an e-mail to them once after having called them once just to clarify a few things, and that evening I was sitting on my ass watching TV and the phone rang... it was a guy from e-Magic in the US calling me here in Munich Germany just to go over a few things. That means that I called someone in Germany, then sent him an e-mail, he read it, refered it to the US, and then that guy read it, figured out what I needed, then called me 7,000 miles away. That is some damn support.
With Logic Audio you can share files with people over the internet and I can work on a song here in Munich and then link it up with my guys back in the US and we can have a virtual studio type thing going on, from over seas. There are more audio features than I could have ever even imagined in this software. Everything from quantisizing audio, to gain changes, fade ins, fade outs, introducing silence, And if you goof up and delete something or alter something that later you think stinks... no problems in going back to just about any point of the altering process and undoing it. There are just so many functions that I myself have had this guy for over a year and I still probably have used 1/4th of what it was intended for.
I assume that you know more about Sonar and your other programs than I do about Logic Audio... so for you Sonar etc.. is probably, and obviously, judging by what you said, is best for you. But before anyone ever knocks Logic Audio... go over to someone's house that already his set up configured and running smoothe, and just play around for 15 minutes. I was hooked in 2 seconds.
mike