I had tried to install Cubase LE on my computer. I ran into all the hassles you did. Their tech supports only answer on how to get it to work was to buy a set of CD's that explained how to make it work. The disk made for a nice frizbie. I nuked it off my computer. I'll take Real Band over Cubase any day of the week. No dongles needed with Pgmusic stuff. If you want to go with big time stuff use Sonar. It's almost like working with PTW but a lot fancier. It's designed to handle outboard equipment where Pgmusic software doesn't.

I don't care what software you have. It's the hardware you use that makes the difference in quality. Unless you're going to go into big time recording with several sound rooms, etc., going with expensive and confusing software is a waste of time and money.

Russ
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6 Ghz quad core AMD processor
8 Gig memory
1 TB hard drive
6 GB hard drive
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