![]() I've had the Sonar product line for nearly as long - but doing MIDI in Sonar has always been a pain in the a$$. It's function, design, and utility are still very much in demand and relevant. ![]() What Turtle Beach doesn't realize is that this software is obsolete only because they chose to make it so. I guess that makes me old fashioned, "holding on" to an outdated and obsolete program. ![]() ![]() I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm feeling creative, I prefer simplicity. These are great for lots of different aspects of wave file studio work - but, and it's a big BUT - Voyetra's Record Producer was the most intuitive, and user interface friendly MIDI program of them all. I have Cubase 4LE, and I have the newest, wizbang DAW from Cakewalk - Sonar X1. I started MIDI sequencing with Voyetra MIDI Orchestrator, moved on to Digital Orchestrator Pro for rendering my sequences to wave, and upgraded to Record Producer Delux to make better wave files from my sequences. Now their just another company that builds sound cards and music software, a business in which they are now also-rans. This is what really made them stand out as a company. Personally, I am begging Turtle Beach/Voyetra to bring back their old engineers or similarly talented ones and get back to building on what they started in the recording business. No such problems with future versions though, and I'm keeping my last Windows XP laptop around as well, so I can work on improving my old files (though without benefit of the Kurzweil.). Lost my best instrumental ever by not backing up. DOP on this machine did have a nasty habit of occasionally deleting the contents of a file, leaving behind a 0kb file. I originally got DOP in a package with a Turtle Beach Live Platinum sound card that included a chip with GREAT Kurzweil sounds for MIDI, and I still keep this machine (with Windows 95) around thinking I'll get back to it. ![]() Those factors, however, are enough to get to me move on to other software (currently using n-Track) for my new songs, although I would MUCH rather have an updated RPP that did this. Design-wise, no one has ever really improved upon this software, not Cakewalk nor even Pro Tools - except for the addition of non-destructive editing and plug-ins. The reason I love DOP/RPP is that it remains the most complete and intuitive music production software I have come across - and I still have my old files to work on. ![]()
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