Hello everyone. I just left the Studio One world after Fender took them to a subscription to even converse on the forum. I went to Presonus after Gibson bought Cakewalk, offered a lifetime upgrade fee and then dumped the software leaving us life timers in the lurch. Two guitar companies have now screwed me over. I am now a Cubase 14 user and am just getting started with it. I hope Steinberg isn’t purchased by a guitar company. LOL
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Welcom to the forum & Cubase.
That’s just rude
Well they are owned by Yamaha, but are separate from their musical division.
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coincidentally that was 20 years ago - almost to the day:
https://usa.yamaha.com/news_events/2004/20041223_yamaha-announces-acquisition-of-steinberg_us.html
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Well 20 years is long enough I hope. LOL
@bnwitt Welcome to the forum, fellow guitarist here, I think you’ll be happy with Cubase!
That’s an… interesting draw you took from the opening post. Might you be handing a peanut to somebody who is allergic to peanuts?
I was also a longtime SONAR user, actually starting with Pro Audio 9, then all versions of SONAR (even beta tested SONAR 2-6). But when Gibson dumped the Cakewalk stuff, I started looking around, taking advantage of various crossgrade deals different DAW vendors were offering at the time (Cubase, Studio One, and Samplitude – I also test drove Digital Performer’s demo, but would have needed a magnifying glass to read the screen).
I’d initially intended to try producing one song with each of the products to see what stuck. I started with Cubase (9.5) and made a success of that, though there was a majorly steep learning curve. Tried Studio One next – it really didn’t meet my needs in a number of areas at that point. I’d used a low-end version of Samplitude in the distant past (prior to coming to Cakewalk), but Cakewalk by BandLab came along before I got to trying Samplitude, and I never got to trying to do a production in that. (It has an even steeper learning curve than Cubase.)
As I used Cubase more, I found that certain operations where I spent a lot of my time (e.g. comping vocals) seemed to be more efficient (for me at least) in Cubase than Cakewalk, and by Cubase Pro 10.5 I switched to Cubase as my main DAW for new projects, still doing some remixing in Cakewalk by BandLab. These days, I just move old SONAR projects over to Cubase if I need to remix them. (Just did that with an entire Christmas EP from 2006 back in October.)
I also switched to Dorico Pro (from Finale Pro directly, which I’d switched to from Encore) a few years ago, and I recently added both WaveLab Pro and SpectraLayers Pro to my arsenal. Guess I’m kind of in the Steinberg camp at the moment. 
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Thank you for the welcome MrSoundman. I pluck geetar as well.