Sammy D

A modern DAW, ( especially Sonar ) that has always been marketed as a product for professionals, should not have a limitation that even the most basic entry level programs have, including Cakewalk Next and BandLab! If you make a mistake recording audio... you typically have to do the following: Record it over, Attempt to punch in, do multiple loop record takes or comp the takes. Why is some users perspective about midi so different. Midi is far easier to fix by comparison. You're not going to always nail everything you do the first time, whether it's audio or midi. It's just an unavoidable part of the creative recording process. It's all about having the option to tailor your workflow to your needs. That's fine if someone prefers midi clip takes rather than merged midi. It's not elegant in Sonar. DAW's like Studio One, Reaper, Cubase, Samplitude, Abelton Live, Logic pro, have the option to record either way you choose. I particularly like the midi takes feature in Studio One. In most cases I don't record midi in takes, but it can be useful in certain scenarios. Most users of midi will have a need to move clips around the timeline or make duplicates of clips to do other things. You most certainly have to bounce to clips if you're doing such things in Sonar. This becomes cumbersome to do when it's mostly a midi session. I think in the past I created a shortcut to do the bounce, but still had to select all the clips then use the shortcut. They could at the very least make a macro or script to do this since they refuse to do what all the kids on the block can do. The program still has a lot of it's old base code under the hood, so there are some core things that has never changed. There's a reason that Sonar has never been a leading DAW used in pro studios or a part of the conversation of DAW's, especially since it's only been for windows. The older Sonar gets the more it never really changes. They just add more siding to cover up the shortcomings. The program will always lag behind the competition. The only reason I bother revisiting the program at times is because the sound engine is great. A lot of folks do step recording or manually input notes, so real time midi recording and midi merging is of no interest to them. Calkwalk Next is a cool lite weight app, but event that has problems with basic midi options. It doesn't have input quantization. It only does hard Q, after the fact. No option to choose the strength and it's acting wonky at this current time because there's a bug where it doesn't quantize to the set value. Midi is simply not their strong point! 💩

Greetings to all.... I've been a long time Sonar user off and on for a number of years. I've consistently made a request for midi merge or overdub recording to a single clip. It's always fallen on death ears and I'm frankly not that optimistic as I make the request now. I've never understood why this feature has always been treated as frivolous. Dealing with midi clips in Sonar has always been messy. Having to bounce to clips to have a single unified performance has always baffled me. While other DAW's offered the option to do separate midi clips, they also offered overdubbing to the same clip as well. I hope someone on the team will want to bring such a basic feature to reality in a world were stem separation is becoming a new standard in programs and Sonar still behind on basic midi. Let's go team Cakewalk/ Bandlab!

Thanks for kindly posting the survey voucher! I was able to get the AMEK EQ 200 for peanuts!?