Members pbognar Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 Seems kind of weird - I thought by now someone would mention something about the new release... any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dean Roddey Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 Well, if excitement is a measure of anything, it must be great, because it's stirred up the SONAR forum like throwing a rock at a hornet's nest. I'm going to wait for the .1 release myself, since I don't want to take any chances. But the new MIDI editing tools and finally having support for side chaining are two huge improvements, for me anyway. The MIDI editing tools look quite nice, and since I do MIDI drums (BFD) I spend quite a lot of time tweaking MIDI data by hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 Seems kind of weird - I thought by now someone would mention something about the new release... any thoughts? I guess I'll buy it. I decided only to go for the odd-numbered upgrades. Stil rockin Sonar 5 producer...I probably need to finish my CD project before upgrading though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dylan Walters Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 I watched the Flash demo, which switches screens way to quickly to be able to see all of the new features. It kind of hurt my brain in fact . To be honest, I haven't been very *wowed* with most product upgrades over the last few years. I can't think of many features that someone could offer me that I don't already have available or would need to entice me to upgrade. In fact, the only reason I upgraded to the latest Sound Forge was for the bundled plug-ins. So it's no surprise to me that this announcement is getting a 'meh' response on the web. If I were more into MIDI then the upgrade would seem very worthwhile, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 20, 2007 Members Share Posted September 20, 2007 I thought the Flash demo was awful, too. But the feature list looks good... a lot of apparently much requested features like some kind of delay comp system for hardware fx routing, more sidechain options, a MIDI makeover, the inclusion of some new soft synths, including, if I saw correctly, Garritan Pocket Orchestra, which sounds interesting. As always, it's an incremental thing. Me, I'll be waiting for a while. I bought the SP6 upgrade at a decent discount this spring. No guarantee they'll do a similar deal next spring but I should have a good idea how indispensable this version will be -- although it's always a crap shoot what will be included or disincluded in the Pro edition grab bag -- sometimes I wish you could skip the software update and just pay a 100 clams for the Pro goodies. Anyhow, I posted a thread on it over at Gearslutz -- with the observation that the yearly updates for Sonar seldom stir folks up like the often far less frequent updates from other DAWs but that it looked like a good set of updated features, overall. http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/145689-sonar-7-shipping.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 The big one for me is hardware integration with ADC. Iv'e been screaming for this for about 2 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 Hmmm... SONAR 6 was a veddy-veddy big step-up for me.... SONAR 7 is hard-pressed to improve upon 6's AudioSnap feature, I think. :poke: It's da shizzy. Still, sidechaining is a very big attraction; that should've appeared a long time ago, IMHO. What do you suppose "gluing" and "splitting" of MIDI notes is? I'm guessing SONAR 7 will have improvements which one cannot see, but which can be "felt".... little things just move better and happen faster. This has been the case in versions 5 and 6 for sure. P.S. If you check the YouTube promo's and demo's for SONAR 7, be sure to read the viewers' posted comments. They're very astute. For example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 Hmmm... I haven't moved on Sonar since PE 4, and I'm using Reaper 99% of the time now because it is simple and more stable/resource efficient on my system, and my MIDI needs ain't what they used to be, but...if those new mastering plugs are good--REALLY good--that alone would be worth the price of the upgrade. Throw in a suite of Rene's tasty synths too...hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members c10 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I just upgraded from 1.0.3 to 6PE, I will probably wait for version 11... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 Hmmm... SONAR 6 was a veddy-veddy big step-up for me.... SONAR 7 is hard-pressed to improve upon 6's AudioSnap feature, I think. :poke: It's da shizzy. Still, sidechaining is a very big attraction; that should've appeared a long time ago, IMHO. What do you suppose "gluing" and "splitting" of MIDI notes is? I'm guessing SONAR 7 will have improvements which one cannot see, but which can be "felt".... little things just move better and happen faster. This has been the case in versions 5 and 6 for sure. P.S. If you check the YouTube promo's and demo's for SONAR 7, be sure to read the viewers' posted comments. They're very astute. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AkIZvZ5aXA I'm thinking you may have more hardware resources than me... I like much of the changes to Sonar 6 -- but it must take at least four times as long to load on my modest machine as S5... Once it's loaded, things are fine, but it's a long 7 or 8 seconds loading... I'm simply not used to that from Sonar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 I'm thinking you may have more hardware resources than me... I like much of the changes to Sonar 6 -- but it must take at least four times as long to load on my modest machine as S5... Once it's loaded, things are fine, but it's a long 7 or 8 seconds loading... I'm simply not used to that from Sonar. No, you're right; it DOES take a longer time to load. I don't see why it has to re-scan all your VST's every time it opens up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 A Pro Review on Sonar 7 will start tonight in the Pro Review forum section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 No, you're right; it DOES take a longer time to load. I don't see why it has to re-scan all your VST's every time it opens up. Yeah... I've been thinking it's time to thin things out in the ol' plug-in department... I have a very large collection of plugs but almost always only about 5 or 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dean Roddey Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 No, you're right; it DOES take a longer time to load. I don't see why it has to re-scan all your VST's every time it opens up. That's an option in S6, and I assume it still is in 7. Maybe installing 7 reset it back to defaulting to scanning on startup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 No, you're right; it DOES take a longer time to load. I don't see why it has to re-scan all your VST's every time it opens up. It doesn't have to, you can disable the scan in Options/Global/VST. It speeds the start up time a little. You can also scan new plugs from there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted September 21, 2007 Members Share Posted September 21, 2007 A Pro Review on Sonar 7 will start tonight in the Pro Review forum section. Looking foward to it. Hopefully you'll have the time(after the other obvious stuff)to try the hardware i/o with ADC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PetersReviews Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 I'm still using Sonar 2! It might be time for an upgrade. I've actually been using Cakewalk products since they only made MIDI sequencers for DOS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted September 22, 2007 Members Share Posted September 22, 2007 I guess I'll buy it. I decided only to go for the odd-numbered upgrades. Stil rockin Sonar 5 producer...I probably need to finish my CD project before upgrading though. Same here most of the time. Starting with Cakewalk 1 for DOS I went for Cakewalk 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8 and then Sonar 1, 2, 3, and 5. Always producter edition. They fooled me this time, no pre-release announcement with a discount and it cost more to upgrade from two versions back. Oh well, it is still a good deal. I'll upgrade soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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