Picked up Sonar 6 today

[Old Vantaa Man]

Got the Studio Edition. Bit strange to navigate after using Sonar 2 for last few years, but first impressions good. The VSTi integration seems more solid than the VST adaptor I used to have to use. I recorded a note for note arpeggio type thing with Albino 2 then whacked the tempo up to 266, recorded a load of mad automation to see if I could crash it, but it didn't even break a sweat.

The manual runs to 250 pages this edition which is a bit thinner than all the previous Sonar / Pro Audio manuals, but a good read. Online pdf manual is 950 pages and there's a decent quality video tutorial on using audio quantize on the installation disk.

So far so good..:cool:

[AlexHall74]

How is it at recording farts?

[Old Vantaa Man]

You'd be OK with it Alex mate

[AlexHall74]

Good. If I can't capture a real life gas attack at 192 kBits I'm just not comfortable. ;)

It must be an awful lot more developed than v 2.2 and a nice jump in capability.

[Old Vantaa Man]

2 days of use later:

This has to be the best 99 €uropes I've spent in many a year. Absolutely brilliant features.

VSTi's rock solid. Automation of absolutely every parameter in VSTi's and effects. Graphic or assign/knob learn.

Folders. Put any track in a folder. copy paste the folder.

EQ on all channels. Automation and parameters assignable.

Toolbars 100% customisable.

Major upgrade for me from 2.2. I've not tried audio quantize or stretch yet.

[jasedee]

Welcome to the modern age OVM!

[Old Vantaa Man]

Bloody hell that's right Jase! Nearly got knocked off me penny-farthing by one of them "motor car" things today as well.
:rolleyes:

[Tomer=Trance]

Any idea if its Win Vista compatible?

[jasedee]

I love Penny-Farthings! I wonder where I could get one???

http://friendsofbeamish.co.uk/cycles/assets/pennyfarthing.jpg

[Khazul]

Any idea if its Win Vista compatible?

Dunno yet - but I would fully expect this to be the first one to be Vista 64 native.

Of course the real headace for most of us is going to be getting Vista/Vista 64 drivers so I expect I'll be running my workstation on 32 bit XP for some time yet...

[Old Vantaa Man]

Got absolutely no idea about Vista.
Screenshots of Vista look funky, but I still use Windows Classic menus on my music hard drive..
I'm not going near it until 2009.

[danbeaulieu]

I am using pro tools... maybe I should go back to sonar


dan

[danbeaulieu]

Got absolutely no idea about Vista.
Screenshots of Vista look funky, but I still use Windows Classic menus on my music hard drive..
I'm not going near it until 2009.

I am buying a new laptop (2.22.07) and it has vista on it so I will drop a line after I have used it for a few days.


dan