Hello Joe,

I was amazed to find all the Cakewalk Sonar files still on the Cakewalk site. They did not work on Win 11 properly. They did work without issue on Win 10.

When Sonar first collapsed, I jumped ship and went to Studio One. I kept Sonar on the machine for a while but liked Studio One better. I played around with Bandlab a time or two, and I found that for a free program, it was great, but why use two DAWs?

Around the same time, I was also using Reaper and Pro Tools only because of collaboration with other people who used those two programs.

There are many things to like in all the different DAWs I have tried.

If cost is any concern, Cakewalk from Bandlab is king. To me, Reaper is the most complete low-cost DAW at $60 but a lot less intuitive than Cakewalk; just my opinion.

I have a new Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface
USB 2.0 Audio Interface, 18-in/20-out, 24-bit/192kHz, with 8 Mic/Line Inputs; 2 Instrument Inputs, 2 x ADAT I/O, MIDI and S/PDIF I/O, Dual Headphone Buses, Talkback, and Bundled Software - Mac/Win that should arrive today.

It comes with Ableton Lite, which may be fun to see what it has to offer. Of popular DAWs, I have not tried Ableton or Cubase.

The doorbell just rang, and the new interface is here.

The new report is forthcoming...lol

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”