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cobb 
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 Topic: Sonar anyone
Posted: March 15 2006 at 22:37 |
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Any Sonar users out there?
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Damen
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 22:42 |
I am a cave dwelling blind rodent so of course I use sonar. 
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cobb
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Posted: March 15 2006 at 23:33 |
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Thanks for that Damen....
I know I haven't elaborated, but any using it will know what I am talking about.
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darren
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 00:24 |
My dear wife got me Sonar for Christmas. Total surprise. She somehow found out what I wanted. I had no idea she knew what it was. She has been after me to get rid of an old pair of headphones that have the rubber ear pieces crumbling (and turning my ear black when I wear them). I unwrapped my gift and the logo on the package made me think it was a new set of headphones. It took several minutes to sink in.
However, it's a steep learning curve for me. I'm still fiddling with it but I can't get 2% of what it's capable of.
Hey, Damian, how's that? I talked about it without revealing what it was.
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 03:17 |
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Sonar? The music program?
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cobb
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 04:29 |
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True... Lindsay L
Any experience with it?
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: March 17 2006 at 05:45 |
I think i have it somewhere but i have not used it alot 
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jesperz
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Posted: March 21 2006 at 11:30 |
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The Drum Manufacturer? Sonar Drums?
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<<Dark side of Z' Drummination>>
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Lerxst
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Posted: March 21 2006 at 18:12 |
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I did in the early 90's..great kit!
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cobb
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Posted: March 21 2006 at 21:26 |
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The program is a music studio for PC by Cakewalk. Puts a recording studio on your desktop. The greatest thing since sliced bread.... for a musician.
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darren
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Posted: March 22 2006 at 06:43 |
 cobb wrote:
The greatest thing since sliced bread.... for a musician. |
... well at least for us that can't afford the latest Logic Pro software and the big honkin' Mac to run it.
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"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
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cobb
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 00:23 |
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So, nobody uses sonar...
What music recording software do the musicians on this site use then?
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darren
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 02:08 |
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Used Sonar tonight. Still learning. Made a short instrumental. Awful music but the sound quality was great. Wish I wasn't so busy with everything else so I could create more. I do have some video projects coming up. I'm going to record music for it (solves the problem of copyright).
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"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
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- Leonard Cohen
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cobb
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 02:46 |
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Excellent darren. Are you using midi instruments or recording directly into it?
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darren
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 19:34 |
I'm using a beginner's keyboard that I borrowed from my nephew. I'm new to midi. I find some of the sounds are not very accurate. I also discovered you pretty much have to abuse it a bit to get great sounds. By this I mean that you set it for trumpet and play the low register notes and it sounds closer to a trombone than the trombone setting. One of the settings for a bass is better played on the upper notes and sound closer to a violin than the violin setting, etc.
I'm just getting used to using everything. Short forty five second stuff just to get practice on using several tracks.
I haven't plugged my guitar in yet or record flute. I did use it to make a couple of radio commercials and it came in really handy since I had to carefully edit some stuff out.
So, what are you working on?
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"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
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cobb
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Posted: March 24 2006 at 22:36 |
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I use it all the time for recording and midi for our covers band. The midi makes excellent backing stuff when played through a Roland midi player, which through a PA sounds just like there was an actual Roland instrument there.
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darren
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Posted: March 26 2006 at 07:44 |
Which Roland midi player?
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"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
the fools
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- Leonard Cohen
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cobb
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Posted: March 26 2006 at 08:51 |
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It's an aging SD-35 Soundcanvas player. Uses floppy discs. Unfortunately they are 720k discs and they are getting very hard to come by... But it still plays like treat.
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Jaydubz
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Posted: April 12 2006 at 18:13 |
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I'm a big fan of Sonar - currenly using Version 4 Producers Edition. It's very intuitive, and behaves well with its sister product, Project 5 Version 2...as well as Rewiring seamlessly with Reason & Melodyne. The MIDI capabilites of Sonar are particularly sweet. If you're considering doing music on a PC, Sonar may be a great choice for you!
Edited by Jaydubz
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"Music is the best." ~ FZ
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cobb
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Posted: April 13 2006 at 01:23 |
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^^Are you doing any recording with Sonar 4 and having lock up problems? I had a hell of time with 4 until I put on 5.
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