I've been using Sonar in its various forms for about 5 years. However, most of the time if you have a crash, Sonar 7 lets you make an emergency save of your project, so you rarely lose data between that and the auto-save feature. Usually cakewalk patches it up within a few months, and usually they are not a big deal.
I will say that now and again you enconter a bug in Sonar. Sonar also of course lets you adjust latency, so you can squeeze more perfomance out that way. Sonar is quite efficient, and with my computer I pretty much never run out of CPU headroom - and I use a LOT of plug-ins - including CPU intensive ones like Altiverb and the Waves bundle. I run Sonar on a Windows XP system with an Intel motherboard, dual core Intel processor, 4GB of Ram, an 80GB Raptor hard drive for audio and 3 500GB data drives, and I use a MOTU 896HD as the interface. The manual is of course very large because the scope of what this very powerful program can do, but it is also very thorough. You can customize this program so much that if you spend a little time with it, it can easily provide the best workflow of any DAW on the market - including the 'industry standard' protools. The general configuration is as simple or complex as you want it to be, which is one reason I love Sonar.
I had no compatibility issues thanks to that.
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Cakewalk is a company that is on the leading edge of DAW creation, so they of course have drivers for every windows version you'd want to use, including 64-bit editions. The installation is intuitive, and a good amount of customization options are presented throughout the install.