As a Sonar 8.5 user (and having a large investment in cash and learning since Sonar 2) I've been following the anguish on the Cakewalk forums with growing concern. However, yestrday I weakened and ordered the upgrade to X1. I figured that it will cost me a lot more money and toil to swap over to another DAW so I might as well go through the pain barrier with X1's GUI changes. At least I'll know my way around most of it.

NOW, having said that... today I find that Presonus are doing a NAMM three-day only download only deal on their Presonus 1 Artist DAW at 90% off! That's £15.59!! That's a no brainer backup in case I decide to jump the Sonar ship so I'm off to get my credit card. (They'll want to tempt you to upgrade to the Pro version for £182 or so, but looking at the extra features I'm not sure I'll need them, but if I did the total price is still way below the price of starting anew with another DAW).

John


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