Gary,
Doing both and just having gone through another round with my computer and Sonar....when they work they are great when they don't work right what a royal pain. I love the editing capabilities, but spent the last 2 days hassleing with corrupt drivers, loading and unloading etc etc etc to get it back to working right again and when I did, I shut it off and went back to my stand alone zero hassle hard disc recorder.
For staight up ease of use hassle free a stand alone is the inly way to fly IMO.
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jam on,
Terry
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