Eddie. RB is a full fledged DAW.

I have one very important question for you and this is for you only not anybody else.

What do you use or plan to use Sonar for that you can't do in RB?

You said it yourself, you don't understand this stuff yet and right now you missed one of the most basic of basic's. When you export to wav all the effects are written to that wav. A wav is a wav is a wav. What are you doing with a new DAW when you don't understand something as basic as that?

Learn what you have first before even thinking of trying something else.

Again,

What do you think Sonar will do for you that RB won't?

Bob

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