I had one of those DAW's in a box. Bought it used and sold it a short time later.

I found it to be hard to work with especially regarding midi. Everything had to be in audio format which presents issues for the folks who rely on midi to play a piano part accurately.

And another issue was getting drums to sound creative and fit properly.

I switched to a computer based DAW..... in this case, Cakewalk's Music Creator and subsequently Sonar. As soon as I did that, the Korg was posted and sold on E-Bay.

The thing I found was that it was too difficult to do the things I was hearing in my head on the all in one machine. If I wanted a simple songwriter's scratch pad kind of thing to layer some audio tracks, I suppose it would work just fine. Unfortunately, it didn't fit my needs.

Getting MC/Sonar on a computer based DAW did allow me to use all sorts of midi and other tools in my work. Drum synths made the drum parts super easy, and tools like PG music made the other instruments I could only dream of using, become a reality.

It's computer DAW for me.

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