So I bought it,and Cakewalk Home Studio and Rapture Session,along with other stuff was on the cd. I guess Gibson decided it was pulling out of Cakewalk and decided every little helps to pay their bills.
Anyway, now that Cakewalk are resurrecting Sonar I installed and authorized it,and have been learning how it works.
What a great little DAW !
It seems to do much of the stuff that Sonar does but in a cut down package.
The Matrix view is a bit like Ableton Live,and clips that you play can be dragged down onto the cells and triggered either by midi keys or full columns by mouse.
I quickly knocked together a little song, printed it in the Staff view, and played along with my violin (which I am learning).
It even has video.
This has to be the budget DAW to beat. And I even had a magazine to read.