It has been hit and miss at best, leaving me to just re-recording things that needed timing adjustments. I have tried to use this facility SO many times in CBB. Simple to use Audio "quantizing" in the form of Audio Bend = CBB AudioSnap. The console - Much more flexible in Studio One, allowing for the volume sliders (and associated controls) to be extended up, for the Insert and Send areas to be height adjusted, and to allow for (some) plugins to display their details at the channel summary level - if you want them to.ħ. I'd rather only load on a channel what I am actually going to use to keep the busyness down and make the channels/console far easier to look at.Ħ. I've never been a fan, believing that the modules there are loaded across every channel, whether I want them or not and except for the (enjoyable) Quad Curve EQ, the UIs are too small to be useful. I have spent less time worrying about how a control looked or how the colors worked, or how I could spend even more time doing customizations and instead in Studio One have spent more time enjoying the immediacy, the simplicity, the intuitiveness, and the productivity.ĥ. When I first got S1, I was a little underwhelmed with the GUI, but I have found it to be more functional than CBB's. The Gui - of course this one is so subjective. I am talking about an Edirol PCR-800 - a device that was made by "Roland" at a time when they owned Cakewalk, that has never been predictable or easy to use with ACT, a technology that was created during the same period as the device, with the device even having a button on it that was decidedly only for ACT (V-LINK), but to get it to control things in CBB is just an unpredictable pain - even having created a ticket with Cakewalk (pre-Gibson-breakup) that took a whopping 9 months to get taken care of that allowed me to utilize simple "midi remote" control that in Studio One (that was wierdly difficult to setup and separate from ACT because that particular function wasn't handled by ACT) has been a complete breeze in S1.Ĥ. And I'm not talking about the FaderPort 8 (a Presonus product we would expect to be better in Studio One). In Studio One, I move a control, click a UI element, and click the left arrow in the UI. Assigning my hardware to control things in CBB = a bit of a PITA. Studio One = no such thought process or interruption = it just worked.ģ. In CBB (or old Sonar), I got accustomed to archiving/freezing tracks and changing the latency depending on where in the track progress I was, to keep performance in check. I recorded, mixed, and mastered the whole project from start to end with no change to latency at all. Load up a whole mix with complex synths, lots of effects, and decent number of tracks at the same 2.9 ms, in an UI that feels FAR more stable and responsive = no pops or clicks. Pops and clicks while playing back a simple VST piano by itself.
#Sonar 8 vs logic drivers#
Listen to my mix - at 2.9ms latency settings via ASIO, the same as Studio One using the same audio device and same drivers (in fact the same ASIO control panel). Contrast in Studio One: go to the browser, select the view (folder, flat, vendor, type), drag the plug where I want it - done, or favorite it - done.Ģ. I had to open the Plugins.manage layouts from the Browser (wait about 30 seconds each time for this to load), click VST, find my plugin, select the folder on the right in the correct layout (assuming that's the one I actually had selected before I got to the "manage layouts" screen), add the plugin, go out of the manage dialog, save, look in the newly saved area and NOT see my plugin. Arranging my plugins - or even getting them to show up where they were supposed to be in groups. Here are a few things that are quite simple in Studio One that were a pain for me yesterday:ġ. I also added the FaderPort 8 device since I left, but I wasn't even trying to use that in CBB.
Yes, I changed my audio interface, so there were things to adjust, but even that was painful, even being experienced at the same.
#Sonar 8 vs logic professional#
Even if not a Full-time professional power-user, I definitely knew the ins and outs of getting things recorded and mixed and dealing with the hardware and software, drivers, configurations, system tweaking, etc.īut when I came back yesterday and opened up an old project, it left me wanting.
#Sonar 8 vs logic how to#
I understood how to work the application. I used Sonar through Platinum including lifetime updates, so I was even up to date until right when Gibson tanked the brand. So, here is most of that post, edited only for context in my Blog: After thinking through a number of things, and having gone back to using Cakewalk last night to revisit and old tune/mix, I was asked on the Cakewalk forum why I felt as I do, so I wrote a post that I thought would be worth repeating here.