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Sonar handles upper bank patches much easier than RB.



Upper bank patches? Upper bank of what? Isn't that the name of a stretch of beach of North Carolina? Yes that was a joke, but I don't know what you mean by "handles upper bank patches". Accesses the sounds like when I select cartridge B set 3 patch 6 on my ESQ-1? If that is what you mean, I don't grasp how one software would "handle" them any different than another. You enter a patch number and it plays it.

The fact the RB is a 48 track DAW is a serendipitous bonus feature much like when your intelligent, sweet, loving spouse also happens to be attractive and/or rich. RB and BIAB are composition tools. Other than Garageband, I am not aware of other software packages that compose backing tracks. I do know that Sonar, Protools, Logic and the rest of the usual suspects do not. If your "workflow" (and I love the application of that word here - fits perfectly) includes playing everything in live with either real instruments or soft synths and drum machines, or even bringing in side players to so what you can't, then Sonar is for you. Sonar (which I have and use, BTW) was never intended to be what RB is.

Another way to state the bottom line is that RB can do most of what Sonar does (and remember, that is just the value add part of RB), but Sonar can't do the main thing that RB does. Compose.

I agree that a repackage may be in order that accentuates the strengths of RB.