What is your current sequencer of choice

[masimon]

Hopefully I have all of the major sequencers here. If your sequencer is not listed please choose other.

Cakewalk (http://www.cakewalk.com/)
Cubase - Steinberg (http://www.steinberg.net/)
Digital Performer (http://www.motu.com/)
Logic Audio (http://www.emagic.de/)

[Alan Lastufka]

Cubase SX - always has been... always will be...

[JonP]

Cubase SX

[Brian2112]

Cakewalk Sonar.:)

...2112

[ngstime]

DP.

[mderrico]

Cubase SX - love it!

[aplanchard]

DP -- powerful and elegant

[rwayland]

Cakewalk Sonar.

[Ken-P]

Cubase...

[Theodor]

Cakewalk pro audio

[FredProgGH]

Cakewalk 3.0 for DOS.



OK, Sonar, but we actually used the DOS version up until, like, four years ago :D :D

[Scott Cairns]

Cubase SX 2

[FV]

Logic Audio Pro. I have Cubase SX 2 also but Logic just fits me like a glove (since 1996).

p.s. - I hope you're right about Logic 7 Lee. :)

FV

[Houston Haynes]

Nuendo 2 on PC 1 and Cubase SX 2 on PC 2. VST System link RULEZ! :D

[D.Montesinos]

Logicamente!!
Logic........Audio :p
D.M

[christopher]

DP...
... I feel like I am the only one in Germany using it, though....

[noenoeil]

Cubase SX/Mac

[boon]

Cubase SX2

[Craig_L]

OVERTURE 3 - Very intuitive, visual and simple to use - great flexibility in shifting individual note starts and finishes even in chords as well as controller changes from mod wheel to tempo visually. Has 8 voices per staff which gives a simple way of assigning eight different articulations per instrument.

[Rich Pell]

SX and Samplitude :)

[tgfoo]

I'm a Sonar guy myself...

[Joseph Burrell]

Overture user, waiting on version 4. I use Samplitude 6 as well.

[Chananda]

Logic.

[Steve Rees]

Cubase SX2

[T Parks]

Cubase SX2

Hey Houston,

I'm intrigued, how do you divide your operations between Nuendo and Cubase. Is Nuendo strictly for audio and Cubase midi?.

[Gerard Salonga]

When I'm on a PC, Cubase SX. When I'm on a Mac, Logic Pro. With Logic, I do sometimes find myself frustrated without Cubase's Time Warp.

[Hawkes]

Cakewalk Sonar.

[Yves]

Opcode Studio Vision Pro 4.2 on Mac......what??? yeah ,i know..!

It looks like Logic is on the horizon for me.

Yves

[Luigi]

2 XS esabuC ;)

[Jared Hudson]

Sonar rules you! Less fat, more muscle! :)

[Theodor]

Was anyone using Cakewalk pro Audio 9 before moving to Sonar ? Is it the next step up ?

[Gary M. Thomas]

Yeah, I gotta agree with Jared.... SONAR is awesome. :D

I have Cakewalk's SONAR 3 Producers Edition... and it works extremely well with GigaStudio................ Gary

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:HQdHRjsbaFoJ:www.dog-on-blues.co.za/images/sonar3.gif

[quantum7]

SX2....soon to be SX3 Cubase is the way to go!

Sean Dockery
www.seandockery.net

[Bo Clausen]

Cubase - all the way from VST 3.5 to SX 3

[JonFairhurst]

Sonar 3 Studio. Though to be honest, I tend to stay on the MIDI-side with Sonar and life hasn't changed much for me in going from Cakewalk Home 7 to S3.

-JF

[Herman Witkam]

before: Cakewalk Pro Audio 9
now: Cubase SX 2

[Nick Batzdorf]

Actually, you left out Nuendo, which is the top-end version of Cubase nowadays (I believe they used to be different programs, but not any more).

I don't use Nuendo - and not for religious reasons, but because it doesn't support my Pro Tools hardware - but it should probably be on the list.

[aplanchard]

Logic and DP depending on the type of session and sometimes both.

Just out of curiosity, what factors determine your sequencer of choice?

[One Track Music]

Just out of curiosity, what factors determine your sequencer of choice?

So I'm weird, I use PRO TOOLS

JD

[Quasar]

Sonar, which I like a lot, but if I had the $$$ to start over, I'd very likely go Mac.

[clueless]

Digital Performer

[Ranietz]

I use Cakewalk Sonar 3 SE.

Have anyone of you changed from Cakewalk to Cubase, or from Cubase to Cakewalk, or from Logic to Cubase or something like that.

I have a feeling that when you first start using a sequencer, you stick with that one. Am I right?

[Chrislight]

Logic & Mac G5 - a match made in heaven :)

I used to use DP however and miss the step recording thing - it was a great way to quickly sequence scales with all of the midi events intact. I would even consider getting another Mac just to have that option and slave Logic to DP and vice versa.

[mdslammer]

Steinberg's Nuendo.

Great program that has meet all my requirements and then some.

Mark Dalzell / AudioScapes
Las Vegas, NV

[Alan Russell]

Sonar Producer - all the way!

Alan Russell

[kitekrazy]

I use Cakewalk Sonar 3 SE.

Have anyone of you changed from Cakewalk to Cubase, or from Cubase to Cakewalk, or from Logic to Cubase or something like that.

I have a feeling that when you first start using a sequencer, you stick with that one. Am I right?

I agree. It takes some patience to learn a new sequencer and the buzz words with it.
I tried Cubase and didn't like it since I've been using Cakewalk products.

My 1st sequencer was Voyetra Digital Orchestra. I really liked it but had to be dumped because you need a net connection for registration.

I'll stay Cakewalk and PC for a long time.

[Adrian H]

Cubase SX 2

A loyal Steinberg supporter since Pro12 on the Atari

[DougWellington]

It seems like there's some pretty good "competition" going on here... Not to be too orn'ry, but do you think Cubase is "winning" because it's cross-platform? (Having chosen DP in this poll, I'm trying to decide if I'm a loser, or a member of the "elite"...?) ;-)

[Liam]

SONAR.....Would never use anything else. Once Sonar 4 Drops this month, you will all want switch!!

Liam

[Ty]

Nuendo and SX2 in the Studio
Logic Pro on Titanium (If client is a Mac user)
SX2 and Sonar 3 on PC Laptop (If client is a PC user)

Favourite? Nuendo... Period!

Cheers

Ty

[SteveHanlon]

switched from CAkewalk 9 to Logic.

Liked Cwalk 9 a lot (easy to learn and ample features). Had nothing against going to Sonar at some point (once Score features got up to par).

But ultimately went with Apple and Logic. I love Logic more and more!! And I love the fact that i can have music apps and internet on the same machine with Apple. What a time saver.

And EXS-24 is proving to be a painless transition for me from Giga (though I loved GS from the get go). NOthing like opening my work and it's all there.

Also with Logic, I can apply efx to my sampled midi parts. No more capturing to audio then applying efx as i had to do in CW 9 (perhaps that has changed with Sonar with better bussing system). This alone saves so much time and disk space.

[rkmusic]

SX2 and ASAP SX3.

[spinach ravioli]

From the late 80's until the mid 90's: Peformer then Digital Peformer on a variety of Macs, starting with one of those old Macs where everything was built into the 9 inch screen casing. :-) Ah, the good old days!

From the mid 90's until just a while ago: I didn't have a professional level computer music system, just an acoustic piano.

Now: Cubase SX2 (soon to be SX3) running on a PC from VisionDAW.

I think I could get used to just about any computer and sequencer though. I don't have a really strong opinion about which tool to use, except when it comes to notation programs. I've used them all, and I much prefer Sibelius to any others.

John

[Beckers]

So which is best for midi?, ignoring audio and notation.

I use "other", but don't use it for audio. I have not found any limitations for midi so am loathe to change it. (I tried it for audio when I first got it 10yrs ago, found crap, and have used samplitude for audio since). I flirted with Logic two yrs ago, but went back to my old one. However, I seem to be the only one in the world using it. (Actually, that's not true, I heard about another guy who used it once, a couple of years back)

[David Abraham]

So I'm weird, I use PRO TOOLS
JD
not weird, I've tried PT MIDI on a couple of things, like to do more of it, biggest complaint is that neither PT or SONAR do MIDI event/note mute...so SX frequently gets the nod.

[robgb]

Why isn't Nuendo on the list? Do we just lump it in with Cubase?

It's definitely the best.

[chriscaouette]

SX2 (SX3 when released) on a mac.

[Layne]

Just heard fron my wife that the Fed Ex guy dropped off my Sonar Producer 4 Upgrade! :D

Boy, I think I feel a fever coming on (cough, cough). I might have to leave work a little early today. ;)

[Lucas]

Sonar - it keeps getting better. I use Samplitude sometimes for audio & mastering. It's great for that but useless for midi.

[DougWellington]

It's official - DP 4.5 is announced! Now I'm even MORE glad I went with DP...

[Guga Bernardo]

I use Cakewalk Sonar 3 SE.

Have anyone of you changed from Cakewalk to Cubase, or from Cubase to Cakewalk, or from Logic to Cubase or something like that.

I have a feeling that when you first start using a sequencer, you stick with that one. Am I right?

I do not agree at all. I´ve used them all, either at work or at home, and I found that all of them have their strongs and weaknesses. I started with Cakewalk, then went to Logic, and finally to Cubase. I stay with Cubase over all the others.

[Garritan]

We conducted a similar poll on the GPO Forum a short while ago with somewhat similar results. Here are the results:

http://www.garritan.com/images/poll.jpg

It is interesting to see the trends that are developing in the industry.

Gary Garritan