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Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio XL (Windows)

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Cakewalk Home Studio XL Customer Review submitted September 26, 2005

By a customer from cimtel.net
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Musical Background: Music minister
Music Style: christian contemporary
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Feature: A great amount of features for the money. Quality: I have never had any problems with the program, and is very well put together. Value: You get alot bang for your buck. Manufacturer Support: The best support.
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"great product for someone with a low budget just starting out" submitted March 7, 2006

By a customer from yahoo.com
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Musical Background: hobby/ active musician
Music Style: hip hop/ metal
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Sound: this is a wonderful program i now have thousands of dollars worth of machinery at my finger tips and all for a very low price not to mention i can build on it even more, this program is like a dream come true, a bit complicated, but once you take the time to figure it out it can be a very useful tool in creating any type of music Ease of Use: its a bit tricky but for the quality its worth it Quality: my only problem is sometimes it uses too much cpu memory and freezes the pc Value: definitely worth the price
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"This is great for recording.Easy to use." submitted October 21, 2007

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Sound: sounds very loud and clear with my m-audio delta 10/10lt soundcard.I use a bunch of 50.00 low budget mics and it sounds fine. Feature: comes with a bundle of effects...reverbs,e.q.s,compressers,ect.Has a cool guitar amp simulator too.I love it. Ease of Use: I went from an old 4track cassett recorder to this and didnt know jack about pc recording.I thought this would be a nightmare to use but I was wrong.The program is basic and gets you recording tracks right away.I record ten tracks at once on my pc with 1gig of ram,2.0ghz and it playsback great. Value: Its worth ever penny. Manufacturer Support: never called them
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"Something seems to have gone terribly wrong at Cakewalk!" submitted April 1, 2009

By a customer from earthlink.net
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Musical Background: Hobbyist, minor film music
Music Style: Cinema, ambient
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Sound: Based on my experience with previous versions Feature: Based on my experience with previous versions Ease of Use: Had to rate the ease of use as terrible, not due to the program's interface, but two important criteria: 1) An absolute lack of a PDF online. Further, while the full Sonar version is available online, there is no way to download the Home version for tryout. And if you did, you won't have a PDF manual to work from anyway. 2) They have so far failed to send me the serial number in order to install this upgrade. 6 emails and 6 attempted calls have not gotten through. Quality: As with ease of use, the lack of a PDF manual to download and preview, plus terrible customer service, pull down the quality of the product itself. These are not unrelated. Manufacturer Support: I've been a user of Cakewalk products for over ten years. The support on my most recent purchase has been horrendous. All I asked for was the proper serial number for the product that I purchased directly from their site. They take nearly a week to answer emails, and their phone system is often offline during posted working hours. Incredible. The Wow Factor: Get Reaper or Cubase. Really. Overall: I am so disappointed.
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"needs improvement" submitted August 2, 2006

By a customer from bellsouth.net
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Musical Background: 15 years a musician
Music Style: pop
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Manufacturer Support: you can forget ANY tech support. the company won't reply to email or phone calls for help!
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