My first experience with Mixcraft was no different. I've used all three and found them immediately intuitive. I don't know anyone using Mixcraft, but Acoustica's CTO worked on Sony Vegas, Sound Forge, and Acid (now part of the Magix family). The more like SONAR my next DAW is, the less muscle and brain memory I have to overwrite. DAWs may do much the same things these days, but the terminology and methodology can vary. For my own use at home, ease of transition is paramount. Meanwhile, I downloaded several other fine-looking DAWs over the holidays while all the sales were on, hoping to find that eventual replacement for SONAR. It may be that SONAR's demise has been grossly exaggerated, because the software still works as well as ever - and BandLab has recently purchased all of the intellectual property of Cakewalk from Gibson. SONAR is dead, long live… which DAW? The shutdown of Gibson-owned Cakewalk sent thousands of users looking for a new DAW.
