Sonar Production 6

Hey what do you guys think of Sonar Prod 6? Effective? Compare to GPO?

GPO is a sample library (plus the sampler). Sonar is a sequencer, it needs samples like GPO to make music. Sonar doesn't have samples by itself (it comes with some pretty low end sound samples).

So, GPO is much better then. well, a long time ago, I heard this piece by ...I don't remember, but it sounded so real, and I asked him what did he use, an he said Sonar Pro, So I was like Amazed and..wow.

I don't think you still understand. GPO is just sound. It needs some sort of midi manipulation tool such as Finale or Sonar to arrange all the sounds into a piece of music. You can't write music with GPO itself. GPO and Sonar needs one another to produce good music.

Essentially, GPO is like font, and Sonar is like Microsoft Word. You can't use the font by itself, it doesn't make any sense. You'll need Microsoft Word (or a rich text program) to create good looking documents. Microsoft Word can create documents, but without any of the beautiful fonts, you'd probably only be able to use some butt ugly system fonts.

I do use Sonar 6. It's not worth the purchase for music enthusiasts like us. We don't need a bunch of features like the big time composers out there. Sonar Home 4 is actually more than you'll ever need in the cakewalk line of products. This is beside the point. The point is, Sonar isn't a sample library. It's a sequencer.

Ya, I know GPO and Sonar can't write music, I'm just...ah.. nevermind, I take it back.

well Beefybeef, I thank you for explainning this entire chaotic situation to me, It helped a lot, much more clear now lol, thx.

although you could write and create music with sonar, since it

Ya.. Im definitely orchestral styled composer, so i guess Sonar is not going to work.well thx for the update Eldini. It sure helps a lot when you have more people replying.

Well, Sonar does have a staff view, though it's pretty crappy. If you want to compose in an orchestral style, but ultimately want to use GPO or some comparable sample library to render it, I'd say Sonar would probably be preferrable (to Finale/Sibelius). If you want to make it sound fairly realistic, you need to do a lot of envelope (perhaps even EQ at times) editing, since lot of GPO instruments sound rather 'meh' out-of-the-box. You don't really have that level of control with notation software.

I really like Adobe Audition too, but it doesn't really have a MIDI editing capabilities (ie, piano/staff roll), so unless you are mainly dealing with recording sound, you might want to avoid it (or get a really cheap but workable sequencer for the MIDI stuff - you can still import MIDI and use GPO as a plugin to play it in Audition).

But spc1st, I find GPO, better, as in the Quality of sound. More, realistic.

But spc1st, I find GPO, better, as in the Quality of sound. More, realistic.

You apparently haven't heard all of the packages available out there.

No I havent Juicypork, would you mind naming some for me? :blush:

Oops, srry about the double post, but where is the MIDI input for Sonar? Can't seem to find it.

i just posted these on other threads, but Sonar and Finale are great together:

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/hi-new-member-need-software-advice-5263.html#post69975

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/gpo-questions-4720.html#post69970