i hate to bring this up again, but i miss vegas.
Since so much of my work has moved from hardware to software I've had to jump ship to Sonar. It gets the job done, sort of. Mostly, i loathe it. Honestly I hate almost everything about it. Each time I finish a project i feel like I've had to cheat my way through it just to get it done on time. I just spent the last 3 days trying to use their crazy ACT learn feature so i could use my expression pedal on an external hardware synth. Never got it sorted. Sonar forums were no help. So here I am...again. Ive got Vegas 4.0 and I check, desperately, each new release to see if there is midi support. I've tried using Acid but it's just not up to the vegas bullet proof standards in it's Midi implementation. I'd gladly wave goodbye to the $1000 I spent on sonar if i could use vegas as my audio production tool. But, no midi, no go.
Sound on Sound just reviewed vegas for the first time since 1999 (does that tell you how much impact it's had in the audio world lately?) and the guy absolutely loved it - except for its lack of midi. It bothered him as well to have to leave vegas to go to some overblown sequencer package just to use something as mundane as a softsysnth.
I know there are business decsions that factor into this - what happens when Vegas and Acid start to get too similar? You know what? No one cares. They're both great products and your audio crowd is disappearing. Take away the video and bring back the Vegas Audio line - i don't care.
Ok, that's my thought after a hellacious day of dealing with your "competition" Sonar. Which is a joke because you could rule this space if you wanted to.
did i mention i missed vegas?
Since so much of my work has moved from hardware to software I've had to jump ship to Sonar. It gets the job done, sort of. Mostly, i loathe it. Honestly I hate almost everything about it. Each time I finish a project i feel like I've had to cheat my way through it just to get it done on time. I just spent the last 3 days trying to use their crazy ACT learn feature so i could use my expression pedal on an external hardware synth. Never got it sorted. Sonar forums were no help. So here I am...again. Ive got Vegas 4.0 and I check, desperately, each new release to see if there is midi support. I've tried using Acid but it's just not up to the vegas bullet proof standards in it's Midi implementation. I'd gladly wave goodbye to the $1000 I spent on sonar if i could use vegas as my audio production tool. But, no midi, no go.
Sound on Sound just reviewed vegas for the first time since 1999 (does that tell you how much impact it's had in the audio world lately?) and the guy absolutely loved it - except for its lack of midi. It bothered him as well to have to leave vegas to go to some overblown sequencer package just to use something as mundane as a softsysnth.
I know there are business decsions that factor into this - what happens when Vegas and Acid start to get too similar? You know what? No one cares. They're both great products and your audio crowd is disappearing. Take away the video and bring back the Vegas Audio line - i don't care.
Ok, that's my thought after a hellacious day of dealing with your "competition" Sonar. Which is a joke because you could rule this space if you wanted to.
did i mention i missed vegas?