I've been using Sonar for years (now Cakewalk by Bandlab) and love it. It is now free and has become very stable and solid with bi monthly updates and bug fixes. I started out with C-Lab Notator (pre runner to Apple Logic), then moved through the following in order T-dat, Logic, Cubase, Guitar Tracks, ProTools, Riffworks, Samplitude, Live and Sonar which is now Cakewalk. So I've used pretty much everything and find that they all have benefits and drawbacks.
If I was designing a DAW I'd combine the prochannel from Cakewalk with the junt feature from Riffworks which allows you to mute your guitar 4 times to come up with an immediate locked drumbeat and looped record mode. I'd take the editor from Wavelab, the clip launching from Live the rack setup from Reason and the drum editor from Cubase.
You've got a nice setup and we share a couple of pieces.
Current Equipment:
Cakewalk by Bandlab 2020.05
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Behringer Truth 3031 A Monitors (ribbon tweeter)
Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro Headphones
Can't live without plugins and programs:
Guitar Pro 5 (use it to write songs and drum parts and then export midi drums to Cakewalk)
Izotope Ozone 4
Lexicon Native Reverb
Cakewalk Pro Channel
Maag Eq
Addictive Drums
Dune 2.0
Wavelab
Jammer Professional 6
Band In a Box
Riffworks Standard
Overloud TH3
Great to see someone else into music production.
Last edited by robbie111; 06-17-2020 at 05:38 PM.
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