I'll qualify myself by saying I like my DAW to more or less mimic the real world of audio. So I'm basing my experience with Elements with the understanding that the things I find lacking, are global to all versions. The layout and editing should all be the same. As a matter of fact we could open any version of Cakewalk and be OK. If this is not true someone please correct me.Īny one of use could open Plain Sonar x3 and set it up in a matter of minutes with nothing other than a few tools and plug ins missing. As far as the literature say's all Cubase versions work the same with layout and basic functions, you just get more stuff as the price goes up the same as Sonar. But unless there's way more to the basic features in the full version, I'm not impressed at all. Mind you I'm only using Elements which would be the same as using plain X3. Well I'm happy to report that Sonar blows Cubase away as far as I can tell after a week of recording a few songs from scratch in Cubase 7. Cubase still beats SONAR in several areas that are important to me (MIDI sends, tempo editing capabilities), but there's nothing new to get excited about. In terms of MIDI capabilities, not much happened. Also, Cubase 8 requires that you switch to an Aero visual theme on Windows - a requirement I was far less than thrilled about! There are some flakey UI issues that motivated me to return to Cubase 7.5 until the dust settles.
The audio engine efficiency is said to be much improved, but I haven't had enough experience to see if that's meaningful to me. Cubase 8 did close one gap: it now has a plug-in manager - long overdue, IMO. This may not seem like a big deal until you miss having it. You can freeze, of course, but you can't see it. However, Cubase did not catch up to SONAR in the very simple (from user perspective) ability that replaces a frozen track with an audio track. Render in place makes this so easy that there's little excuse not to do it. good idea to render all the synth tracks. Will you be able to recreate them a year from now? Before archiving any project with synths, it seems like a.very. Should anyone doubt the value of this, just consider the unknown state of Alchemy tracks in existing projects.
Cubase 8 did indeed get a nice new feature in render-in-place. I don't have X3 (but do have X2), so I'm not completely current in my knowledge of SONAR. I think we need to try other DAW's just to see how it goes. Sonar has become bogged down with features which are a great asset for most, but a hindrance to others. I probably will always use Sonar, but for projects that I record that are mostly audio I really need better tools and editing. It's been a year and hours and hours working with it and I'm still feel like I'm wearing lead shoes. I really just hate Sonars editing, copy, paste and multiple mouse click, menu stuff.
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