Comments on: Cakewalk SONAR 7 Features at a Glance, MIDI at Center Stage

By: DJ M.O.B

DJ M.O.B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:20:16 +0000

I come from a family if music n through the years my dad and brothers have been using Sonar, i been on Sonar 7 XL for a a bit and hands down it just kicks butt. its user friendly and its easy to creat sick beats and drop siick mixes.

By: KevO'Music

KevO'Music — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:37:46 +0000

Pitch to MIDI translation in Roland V-Vocal: Yep, you heard that right: you sing in, you get MIDI. (Hope this works in real-time?) - absolutely amazing if this really works as you say… is there any plugin that could do the same on reason 3

By: Jose Gonzalez

Jose Gonzalez — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:03:16 +0000

Siempre al dia los Amigos de Cakewalk no nos dejan olvidados….

By: Pianologist.com

Pianologist.com — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:33:52 +0000

I think the vocal to MIDI function is very useful for those musician who don’t master any instrument. They can do sequencing without the keyboard or any theory requirement. As long as they can hear the notes in their ears, they will be able to sing the harmony for the desired track. Pretty brilliant feature indeed!

By: digital lofi

digital lofi — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:19:39 +0000

Erm, that’s:

http://www.digitallofi.com/words/2007/09/21/sonar-7-day-2/

By: digital lofi

digital lofi — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:16:36 +0000

For those curious in the un/under-documented improvements, additions and improvements, I’ve weeded them out of the Sonar forums.

There’s some great stuff in there. It may take me a while to get it all sorted.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:12:01 +0000

Roger that. I find myself missing decent MIDI editing, let alone advances in sophistication and aesthetics, from shareware and commercial sequencers gone for years.

The focus on quality *audio* was no doubt helpful for producers — but for those of us *making the music* — who like to experiment and dream and then innovate — MIDI is leagues ahead. I guess the engineers who make sequencers don’t know that.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:06:08 +0000

Hey

I have found Sonar6 to be rock solid since Version 6.2.1. I am nearing completion of an album that has pretty much all been done in Sonar 6 and I have had no crashs, and no weirdness. The only problems I had for a while was getting my Liquid Mix to play nice, but that was sorted by a patch from Focusrite, so not Sonars issue.

I have already ordered 7 for 3 reasons. Sidchaining, the Midi improvements and also becuase I did not own any of thier VST’s (Z3TA/Dimension/Rapture) but have been tempted for ages, and now LE versions all come bundled with 7. Oh and that Pitch to Midi thing sounds pretty cool as well.

My only frustration now is I really want to try get 7 going on the main rig, but I don’t think its a good idea to upgrade till the album is done. Just seems a tad stooopid. Will have to settle for having on the lappy.

By: WarpedEye

WarpedEye — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:47:22 +0000

advanced midi editing is basically the only reason why Cubase is still on my computer. If Live got the advanced editing features in place, I’d uninstall Cubase completely.

This looks interesting, I’ll have to check to see if there’s a demo somewhere.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:22:35 +0000

@Doktorfuture: this may well be SONAR that’s to blame, but did you try running fresh and VST-free? With SONAR 6, I’ve found it to be pretty reliable, but I tend to run relatively few plug-ins.

@Todd: Well, SONAR was aimed theoretically at music makers to begin with, too — but I agree; I find the interface fairly cluttered by default. There is some degree of customization possible, but DAWs in general have gotten a bit busy UI-wise, Ableton being a big exception.