conjurer_of_riffs
Forfeit Productions
I like the programing drums in cubase since it has the drum grid with the diamonds for the interface. Not so much with Sonar. What say you???
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I don't use Cubase to know if it has this feature - but Sonar allows you to create a drum map to rearrange that grid in any way so you can lay it out how you want and also output different MIDI notes to the synth than what is coming in, if that is useful to you.
This allows me to import guitar pro for example where kick = 36, splash = 55 and so on, and have it come up on a grid ordered exactly how I like from bottom to top (Kick, Snare, Hat, low tom, hi tom, crash, crash, splash) for example..Rather than the jumble that is standard. It can then output to the Superior Drummer mapping I to correspond to that, where kick = 1, snare = 2 for example.
Drum programming in Cubase a breeze.
Sonar has exactly the same thingThere is a button somewhere at the top or in view or something called 'Show Note Durations' - that will change to percussive diaomonds.
I don't use Cubase to know if it has this feature - but Sonar allows you to create a drum map to rearrange that grid in any way so you can lay it out how you want and also output different MIDI notes to the synth than what is coming in, if that is useful to you.
This allows me to import guitar pro for example where kick = 36, splash = 55 and so on, and have it come up on a grid ordered exactly how I like from bottom to top (Kick, Snare, Hat, low tom, hi tom, crash, crash, splash) for example..Rather than the jumble that is standard. It can then output to the Superior Drummer mapping I to correspond to that, where kick = 1, snare = 2 for example.
I use cubase with ezdrummer plugged into for my guitar stuff....it works.
Sonar x1 and x2 shortcuts make midi programming a breeze. Its been a while since I have used Cubase but I can't imagine how it could be any easier than whats offered in the latest Sonar products.
I really liked the interface Sonar X1 had with MIDI programming. Now that I'm up to date with X2, enough has changed for me to feel like I've lost my speed. I'm not crazy about programming MIDI in Sonar much anymore. Surprisingly enough, Pro Tools has a system that is more intuitive for me than most other DAWs.