DAW rebuild

[Richard N.]

Hello friends,

Just an update to the guys from last Sundays chat - I've succesfully got my DAW working again - Win XP home SP2, GPO, Sonar, K2 and Overture. I've "just" got install Finale, update GPO, update K2 and update Sonar !

Hopefully I'll be back to making music by the end of the week.

Quick question - any recommendations for an MP3 convertor that works in Sonar? Am I best paying for the licence for the Sonar encoder or is there something better/cheaper out there? Also, any recommendations for mastering software - again value for money is good! (I used to use Creative Wave something or other but it was OEM and I have no backup)

[rwayland]

Hello friends,

Just an update to the guys from last Sundays chat - I've succesfully got my DAW working again - Win XP home SP2, GPO, Sonar, K2 and Overture. I've "just" got install Finale, update GPO, update K2 and update Sonar !

Hopefully I'll be back to making music by the end of the week.

Quick question - any recommendations for an MP3 convertor that works in Sonar? Am I best paying for the licence for the Sonar encoder or is there something better/cheaper out there? Also, any recommendations for mastering software - again value for money is good! (I used to use Creative Wave something or other but it was OEM and I have no backup)

Well, currently, I use Cakewalk Pyro, no problems. The Creative converter was faster, but not particularly better. Somehow I managed to get a version of Pyro that had the same converter that now is an extra with Sonar. I don't know if it is included in the current version of Pyro. I think not. But also, seems like Window Media Player can do the job. If I were to choose now, I would go for the Sonar encoder.

Richard

[chet reinhardt]

Richard

I use Nero for mp3 encoding, its not internal to Sonar but from my research it had an extremely good reputation, was inexpensive, was not copy-protected, and lacks (to the best of my knowledge) any spyware or other such garbage.

I don't find exporting waves and then encoding to be very bothersome and I'm happy with the quality.

Best wishes

Chet

PS: The GUI doesn't follow normal windows style which was somewhat disconcerting at first but I've grown accustomed to it. That's the only thing that I can think of that I'd consider a possible negative.