Jonathan Sasor

1. You can download Cakewalk by BandLab at http://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk 2. CbB installs alongside SONAR Platinum (it's basically the same upgrading from previous versions- like X2, X3 to Platinum).

As mentioned, it's a general "good practice" thing. If you're running a SSD, you're not going to see a huge improvement, but as others also mentioned, if you do backups on the disk and stuff you can isolate your projects from that part. Back in the day with slower drives there would be a noticeable bump in performance when writing to a dedicated drive for your projects.

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