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...but there's really no comparison in audio and midi presentation and features between sonar and RB.



What exactly do you mean "presentation and features"? We've had this discussion before on this forum, RB does way more than you might think. I remember one discussion a year or so ago where we got specific. Well, how about if I want to do this? RB does it. How about that? RB does it. Really? What about this very cool Sonar thing? RB does that too. A lot of these things came up during beta testing and some of us were very surprised when we talked to the developers about it. Some of this stuff is not obvious, it takes a power user to explain it but that's true of every DAW out there.

Now having said that, you're a long time Sonar user, you're used to it and how it works and that's great not saying you should stop using Sonar and only use RB. Lots of Sonar users here. All I'm saying is I don't believe your statement is completely true. There are differences and two I can think of is automation and VST implementation. RB lets you draw volume envelopes but no automation using a control surface and there is a bug in the VST implementation comcerning tempo matching of plugins to the project. Otherwise, I can completely mix and master a project in RB just fine and you can't tell any difference to one mastered in Sonar. Work flow can be different, the look can be different but actually getting the work done? No problem. You want to talk audio editing? RB is very good, how about midi editing? RB is very good there too. How about using third party plugs? No problem RB will work with any name brand plugin is there is both instruments and effects. You want to use a $1,000 mastering suite? No problem.

Virtually all problems reported on this forum concerning any of that always winds up being user error. This stuff is very tricky as you know so a lot of noob's get confused. You see lots of threads here with people venting RB is a piece of crap, why won't it do whatever, etc, etc. Get down to it and the guy sheepishly says after a week "Oh, thats how it works, you guys are great" but if you didn't read that far all you see is RB must not be much good if all these prople can't make it work.

It works 98% of the time (nothing is perfect). Including ASIO.

Bob

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