I was using Cakewalk since the spread sheet inception of Home Studio ... when the UI appeared horazontal. When Gibson’s packed in the support, I wasn’t worried, other DAW companies offered reduced price packages … so I begun recording with a least likely competitor, loaded Band Lab in your earlier years, stayed with X3e
But I have quite a collection of music generated on Sonar platform that been my efforts from me or other artist (midi)
My old Sonar build had its quirks, all DAW do. But my computer is aging, just like me and my next PC will have windows 10 or 11 so I down loaded BandLab’s 2022.11 and give her a try, I’m’ impressed … here is why.
I installed on win 7 on a six core 2011 PC desktop, opened the program and loaded a file, oh my plug in didn’t migrate .. My plug ins are scattered in several places over a dozen years … taken awhile to sort out, regrouped in folder categories, more organized.
The overall UI is great to work with, cool features were easily appreciated and the looks are pleasing. My only quirk with the 3Xe was the handling of multiple strips to assign drum synth multiple outputs and I was impressed with the virtual instrument handling, the default of vertical sound meters was an overlooked feature can easily see the track activity.
I was surprised some song files of yester years, tweaked the mix like the mix down in the lower right corner, nice. The start up past project display is awesome
Great job guys
