Developed for musicians by musicians.
173 People rated this product : 8 out of 10
17 People wrote reviews









9 out of 10
Feature:
The audio snap is perfect for live playing! And it's pack with plenty of sounds!
Quality:
Cakewalk never fails in this section!They are masters at putting a realstic software together, but making it easy enought for first time software users like me!
Value:
The best for the price, plus they offer free downloads on their website.
Desirability:
Looks realistic, beats FL and Reason!!!
Sound:
Plenty of sounds to choose from!I give it a 8 because the sounds could be more authentic, but hey my sound card sucks!
Ease of Use:
They pretty much answer any question I have, plus the website discussion section is very helpful and it comes in handy believe me!
Support:
Didn't need anything!
Overall:
Ok, some of you guys eventually want to become succesful musicians or producers. This product will prepare you if not teach you exactly what you need to know!Reason, Ableton, and FL however are not a popular software used in studios!So mastering those mediocore software wouldn't do you any good, but this product will!!!
Submitted: 1/12/2008









9 out of 10
Feature:
I am using Sonar 6 Producer Edition. This program is loaded deep. It is a little intimidating for a novice user such as myself and has quite a learning curve. I should get some of the tutorials available for this heavy weight audio production software. The manual assumes that the user is a recording engineer. Once I get the hang of doing something it starts to get really fun.
Quality:
Had some problems running a duo core Athlon CPU that was fixed with an update. The program seems stable and appears to be very well engineered, especially considering it's massive depth.
Value:
A lot of bang for the buck. Saving up for Sonar 7.
Desirability:
I think Sonar is a truly awesome piece of software. Being a novice I may have dove in deeper than I expected to. But taking the time to learn how to use has proven to be the most worth while investment in both my time and money that I could have hoped for and I love using this program.
Sound:
The hardest thing I have found in getting the sound right is setting the buffer size and sampling rate. Once the magic settings are found it sounds great. This program takes some tweaking to get where I want to be.
Ease of Use:
Like I said this program is deep. The hardest thing I have trouble with is setting up my Native Instruments software synths in it. Especially Battery 3. Not finding much help in the forums on that matter. But once I figure things out (a time consuming process) it starts to get really cool. The interface get crowded in a hurry but it has a lot of tools to get the job done. I also have difficulty editing midi in the editor. But I have this problem with any midi editor I try so it must be more me than Sonar. It just seems to try to think ahead of me and guess (wrongly) where I want notes. (Even with quantinizing turned off.) I have a lot to learn so I won't blame Cakewalk. Taking the time to figure things out has proven worthwhile as this program has shown me that it is more than capable of doing what I need it to do. This software is very powerful.
Support:
Very Good.
Overall:
For recording my guitar and creating drums bass and harmony this software does exactly what it is supposed to do and then a lot more. It is a powerful application with alot of depth and weight. I'm very glad I bought it.
Submitted: 9/28/2007
Style of Music: Hard Rock
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