Add note, delete note, move note, change note length, quantize here and there, edit velocity or cc's, name your notes for keyswitches, work with selected ranges, built in scale enforcement, step recording, turn a note into cc data via midi plugins, scrub notes to hear your harmonies, see and edit several overlapped midi tracks color coded, Reaper can do all that. I've never used or needed much advanced editing for midi. Just curious on what people who have used both think.Īlso doing orchestral, not much difference really. Anyone care to comment on the shortcomings of midi implementation in Reaper versus Sonar? I am going to try the demo. One thing though.I work in midi a fair bit with drums and orchestral software (Vienna) in particular. I have had it with the bugginess of the program. On and on and on with the bugs and inconsistencies, this is just what I remember of the top of my head but there was tons more, I was justs constantly fighting with it, and I finally broke down and started searching for something else, found Reaper, same plugs, never a crash, everything works, never looked back.

Various things like play cursor disappers at random. Using looped recording of MIDI much? Hope you're not using a MIDI plugin because that will trigger a bug where everytime the loop plays over, Sonar will play a bar of whatever comes after the loop. You can change the screenset shortcut, but even though the new shortcut works in the rest of Sonar, it's still hardcoded in the step record dialog. and instead of changing something in the step record dialog you will trigger whatever those shortcuts are bound to somewhere else, enter 1 in the pattern box and instead screenset 1 is triggered, try to select another pattern on the drop down by using the arrow keys and you will scroll to another track in the track view instead. Want to use step record? Good luck because every shortcut is bugged. Some can be changed but will not work and random places only the default hardcored shortcut will work.Ĭonstant audio glitching, doing just about anything requires stopping playback.

Same deal with shortcuts, some can be changed, some can't even though you can change them, you'll only know after a restart. Some can't be changed, even though the option is there to change them, you'll only know after a restart, have fun. So many bugs and inconsistencies in Sonar, just unbearable to work with.Ĭolors are inconsistent, some can be changed, others can be changed but only after restarting.

Upgrade sonar 8.5 to x1