Byron Dickens

Your feelings don't change the fact that Cakewalk is FAR more advanced than Ardour. Ardour is a toy compared to CW. Whatever. Your comments demonstrate that you have no idea what CW is capable of.

I got news for you, Sparky: you don't own software. Any software. At all. Ever. You are granted a license to use it. Said license may or may not involve a financial transaction.

Absolute rubbish.

What hardware do you have connected for MIDI I/O?

That's the problem right there. Those guitar USB cables are unusable garbage. The only possible thing they might be good for is strangling a chicken for the dinner table. Maybe.

Because English is hard.

4-year-old dead thread.

So let me get this straight: we don't want to use technology because a) there are some idiots out there who don't know how to service it properly and b) there are idiots out there who push it beyond its design limitations. That sure makes a lot of sense. ABS is supposed to be there for an additional measure of safety on top of driving sensibly. Not so assholes can go driving around recklessly and with a careless disregard for their own safety and that of others.

Need to uninstall the other garbage too.

Cakewalk does use ASIO. In fact, it is recommended. You just don't have a real ASIO driver. You need to get a real audio interface.

This, of course, is covered in the documentation.

You don't read the manual cover to cover like it is a novel or something. You just look up what you need.

I hope it does list at $499. Might weed out some of the crowd who are shocked and upset to hear that recording takes an actual expenditure of time, money and effort. Won't do anything about the crybabies with an entitlement mentality who are still sniveling about what they are "owed." They'd still bitch and moan if it was $1.

That's their own damn fault. Who told them to get all wound around the axle about things they have no control over and that haven't even been decided yet?

Who cares whether you have any use for it or not. Many people do. Again, who cares whether you have any use for it or not. Many people do. Yet again, who cares? That is your own choice. That may not be other people's choice.

Nobody needs all the features. Nobody needs all the features. Your statement here is a Reductio ad Absurdum. That and you're trying to move the goalposts. We also never hear back from these people who get frustrated and jump ship. Never get to hear about the issues they run into over in those allegedly greener pastures. I'm sure my experience is not unique but the list of features I don't use is much longer than the list of ones I do. However, there are features not available in entry level products that really make life easier. For me, the value of all that extra money is in those features I do use that are not to be found outside the full product as well as in not hitting that wall where suddenly you can't accomplish what you want to do because of a missing feature. Like my other expensive hobby. Nobody needs a full featured camera; you can take perfectly good pictures with your phone. But when you can choose lenses with different focal lengths it opens a whole new world to you. When you can focus on what you want instead of what the camera decides, it opens a whole new world to you. When you can choose the aperture and/ or shutter speed you want to get the specific effect you want, it opens a whole new world to you. Just getting by is suboptimal.

Is that so? How about naming them?

Wrong. There was SONAR Home Studio, Artist, Studio and Platinum. Platinum had many more features, not just more plugins. https://gaga.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Versions#start You're right about the price. It wasn't $500, it was $499. https://gaga.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Buy-Now/SONAR-Platinum#start

TTS-1 accomplishes the same thing.

That's kind of like how Pro Tools is the industry standard. Pro Tools is only the industry standard because it's the industry standard, not because it's any better than anything else. I get a real kick out of how every time they come out with a new version they trumpet the great new features. Features that every other DAW on the planet has had for years.

Black Sabbath and their radical tempo changes didn't need no stinkin' Audiosnap! Of course, they did it on purpose.

Audiosnap is best used on short clips and even then it takes a lot of trial and error and manual editing to get usable results. Just slapping it on a whole track and expecting magic is a recipe for disappointment.

Libre Office does 90% of what MS office does. Even opens MS files too. The other 10% are features no one uses anyway.

I guess maybe it's a gamma then?

I got news for ya there, Sparky. All software has bugs.