[musictlk] Accessible Music Production Software

[Kevin Reeves]

Not necessarily. There is some give and take there.

On the soft synth side, yes. Sonar with CT or J Sonar is more advanced. You can use the event editor and
do some seriously advanced composing in the realm of midi.

For audio, however, Cakewalk's engine is not as advanced and can not keep up.

I tried similar editing tasks on both Pro TOols and Sonar for audio editing and Sonar seriously choked. It could not edit down to the tick, and would not accurately play within a given selection, especially if said selection was about 10 or 20 ticks long.

Pro TOols has tons of built in editing hot keys that are amazing and can seriously streamline your work.

If I had a PC still, I'd use Sonar for composing and sequencing, and dump all the audio into pro tools for Vocal tracking and sound design.

Kevin