Preface

Cakewalk’s flagship software is SONAR designed for the PC.

It is very powerful for recording and editing both audio and MIDI.

It is intuitive and very easy to use, particularly if you are familiar with Windows based applications.

It is easily capable of very high quality results that are as good as any other platform currently in use, the only proviso here is the quality of the hardware that you use with it.

Anyone who is looking to move up from a tape based studio will find many similarities but you can throw away those razor blades as the SONAR ‘scalpel’ is controlled on screen and if you make a mistake it can be easily undone – hi–tech surgery indeed.

The number of tracks used to be a prime consideration when recording as there was ...

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