
Don't let the "free" price tag deter you it's every bit exactly the same as the old paid version which I paid a lot for many times over. I've written 20,000 tracks in various forms of Cakewalk, I can say it is fully "adequate" in every way. After a lot of frustration trying everything out, I noticed the keyswitch was changing and found a midi note sitting way at the bottom of the track I didn't see. I've had that happen where the instrument would suddenly go silent for no apparent reason. The other problem could be keyswitches in the instrument may be getting hit by the midi. Are you dragging it into its own midi track that isn't connected to an instrument? Sometimes drag and drop creates its own midi track not connected to the instrument. I mostly used EZKeys to give me midi and just dragged and dropped it into the instrument track.

Studio One is better.Īs for the midi issue, I never had that problem with Sonar. But I will say coming from Sonar, Cubase is not intuitive. I mostly use Cubase now, when I'm not using PT, mostly because of the Chord Track. I took advantage of the really discounted crossgrades available when Gibson announced Cakewalk was going away. Most of my problems were because I couldn't afford a good enough computer to really run any DAW, except maybe Reason.

There were a lot of things I liked about it. I found Sonar very easy to use coming from PT. PT doesn't use VST and pretty much all the free VI's and FX plugins are VST only. I also used ProTools because that's what the guy who was teaching me used. I worked with Sonar from version 8 until Platinum.
