towi0music

I use cakewalk for a long time. Former Sonar user. I use other daws Studio one and reaper mainly at the moment, because I miss some features in cakewalk that are important for me. I basically tried all, and I mean really all daws there are. And I can tell you, there are not much more bugs nore is cakewalk more complicated than one of the payed or free competitor daws. Infact the workflow is very convinient for beginners. But I have to admit the GUI can look overwhelming especially for complete new beginners. If you get the basics of cakewalk, you can try every other "mixer style based daw" (like Studio one, cubase, reaper, pro tools, digital perfomer, Logic) because the workflow is very similar. You will be surprised how stable and user friendly and logically structured cakewalk actually is in the world of DAWs.

Well you can make your own user interface for every plugin. With the already mentioned fx chain modul. It is limited, but you have 6 buttons and 6 rotary knobs that you can assign to parameters. I am waiting since sonar times for a FXChain 2.0 with more buttons, knobs and parameter read-outs like compression or loudness meters. With that you could create your own custom interface for plugins, and you do not have to rely on developers to provide a prochannel module. Imagine the FXchain 3 times as big as it is now with 18 rotary knobs, buttons and parameter read-outs. You could mix plugins and create the channelstrip of your dreams.