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Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio XL (Windows)

Includes Sequencer, Dimension LE with Garritan Pocket Orchestra, Studio Devil VGA+ Guitar Amp Simulator and more!

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          8 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          6 out of 10
Support:
          7 out of 10
 
 

Cakewalk Home Studio XL Customer Review

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from cimtel.net
Submitted: 9/26/2005
Style of Music: christian contemporary
Musical Experience: Music minister
Location: tulsa, ok usa

 

 
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.

Support:
The best support.

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"great product for someone with a low budget just starting out"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          5 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 3/7/2006
Style of Music: hip hop/ metal
Musical Experience: hobby/ active musician
Location: oklahoma

 

 
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Quality:
my only problem is sometimes it uses too much cpu memory and freezes the pc

Value:
definitely worth the price

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

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"This is great for recording.Easy to use."

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Submitted: 10/21/2007
Style of Music: Metal,rock,thrash
Location: Maplevalley,wa

 

 
Feature:
comes with a bundle of effects...reverbs,e.q.s,compressers,ect.Has a cool guitar amp simulator too.I love it.

Value:
Its worth ever penny.

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.

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.

Support:
never called them

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"Something seems to have gone terribly wrong at Cakewalk!"

Overall:
          3 out of 10
Features:
          7 out of 10
Quality:
          1 out of 10
I Want It:
          1 out of 10
Sound:
          7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          1 out of 10
Support:
          1 out of 10
User: a customer from earthlink.net
Submitted: 4/1/2009
Style of Music: Cinema, ambient
Musical Experience: Hobbyist, minor film music
Location: Crystal Lake, IL

 

 
Feature:
Based on my experience with previous versions

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.

Desirability:
Get Reaper or Cubase. Really.

Sound:
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.

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.

Overall:
I am so disappointed.

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"needs improvement"

Overall:
          3 out of 10
Features:
          5 out of 10
Quality:
          5 out of 10
Value:
          2 out of 10
Sound:
          5 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          5 out of 10
Support:
          1 out of 10
User: a customer from bellsouth.net
Submitted: 8/2/2006
Style of Music: pop
Musical Experience: 15 years a musician
Location: wilmington, nc

 

 
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Support:
you can forget ANY tech support. the company won't reply to email or phone calls for help!

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