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Around Christmas time Computer Music magazine (number 250)had a voucher offer of £5 (British) delivered to the house.

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. :)

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dellboy wrote:Around Christmas time Computer Music magazine (number 250)had a voucher offer of £5 (British) delivered to the house.

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. :)
The FREE offer for Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio appears to still be in effect:

http://www.cakewalk.com/Redeem?kl=16&promo=CM25

Use the following redemption code: 3327-46FD-8F9A-BBC7

The free Cakewalk license for the Home Studio edition is worth grabbing; the fact that it includes VST support standard (as opposed to a lot of the other entry level DAWs out there) makes it a wonderful freebie. Thanks Cakewalk! :tu:
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tonedef71 wrote: The FREE offer for Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio appears to still be in effect:

http://www.cakewalk.com/Redeem?kl=16&promo=CM25

Use the following redemption code: 3327-46FD-8F9A-BBC7

The free Cakewalk license for the Home Studio edition is worth grabbing; the fact that it includes VST support standard (as opposed to a lot of the other entry level DAWs out there) makes it a wonderful freebie. Thanks Cakewalk! :tu:
Wow !

Yep, confirmed, I just signed into my account and it asked for that redemption code for a free copy of Sonar Home Studio.

Bear in mind that this is the latest version, has instruments and effects, and user vsts.

The main restriction is 64 tracks of audio and midi.

Once I got used to the workflow and keyboard shortcuts I was away. :tu:

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After 14 years of messing about as a hobbyist, I figured I'd give the program a fair shake. I'm no software or computer dummy. However, after well over an hour of trying to figure out how in the world to simply punch in the serial for the free iteration of aforementioned soft, and finding nothing at all anywhere....I mean, look...I was able to install Reason 2.5 on my old Mac, Tracktion 1 on an old PC, Tracktion 2, and MU.LAB and Podium and energyXT2 and Reaper, and even trials of FL Studio and Orion and Live...and here I am simply and completely and absolutely totally unable to even register a free version of Cakewalk Home Studio...well, how may I respond as a consumer but to more or less ignore this program and such? If I can figure out the others, then why should/may/might this be anything near a mystery?
I think it's a shame because I'd like to take the time to look into an iteration of a long-lived DAW that seemingly nearly lost it's life. However it would seem to me, as an outsider, that I begin to see already how and why... if one cannot nearly immediately install and register intuitively and immediately then why bother (is just the start of 'why')?

My first thought are: I'M the jerk that's missing something. But, what? I've succeeded with others, so.. So...what? That's not a good thing, if I'm sitting in that space...
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MachFront wrote:After 14 years of messing about as a hobbyist, I figured I'd give the program a fair shake. I'm no software or computer dummy. However, after well over an hour of trying to figure out how in the world to simply punch in the serial for the free iteration of aforementioned soft, and finding nothing at all anywhere....I mean, look...I was able to install Reason 2.5 on my old Mac, Tracktion 1 on an old PC, Tracktion 2, and MU.LAB and Podium and energyXT2 and Reaper, and even trials of FL Studio and Orion and Live...and here I am simply and completely and absolutely totally unable to even register a free version of Cakewalk Home Studio...well, how may I respond as a consumer but to more or less ignore this program and such? If I can figure out the others, then why should/may/might this be anything near a mystery?
I think it's a shame because I'd like to take the time to look into an iteration of a long-lived DAW that seemingly nearly lost it's life. However it would seem to me, as an outsider, that I begin to see already how and why... if one cannot nearly immediately install and register intuitively and immediately then why bother (is just the start of 'why')?

My first thought are: I'M the jerk that's missing something. But, what? I've succeeded with others, so.. So...what? That's not a good thing, if I'm sitting in that space...
I already forget how I did it,but it was pretty easy.

Basically,first of all you need a free sign in account at Cakewalk. You just need an email address for that.

Then I think you download and install the command centre and go from there.

Its a good sequencer, basically the same as the grown up version of Sonar but with a track restriction of 64. The built in Overloud TH3 guitar amp is good.

You should also get some other free things like Rapture essentials.

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Sonar Home Studio also has a limit of eight busses. I found that out when I tried to open in Sonar Home Studio a project that I had created in Sonar Platinum; Sonar Home Studio is unable to open CWP files that were saved with more than eight busses and displays a pop-up warning to that effect before giving up.
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tonedef71 wrote:Sonar Home Studio also has a limit of eight busses. I found that out when I tried to open in Sonar Home Studio a project that I had created in Sonar Platinum; Sonar Home Studio is unable to open CWP files that were saved with more than eight busses and displays a pop-up warning to that effect before giving up.
Yes, that would be an issue. But I would assume most folks using Sonar Home Studio for the first time don't have complex projects created earlier in a flagship version of the program. So it's a great value as a starter kit, especially considering the VST support.

One solution for those large projects would be to 'save as' a copy of them with 8 or fewer busses. :wink:
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MachFront wrote:After 14 years of messing about as a hobbyist, I figured I'd give the program a fair shake. I'm no software or computer dummy. However, after well over an hour of trying to figure out how in the world to simply punch in the serial for the free iteration of aforementioned soft, and finding nothing at all anywhere....I mean, look...I was able to install Reason 2.5 on my old Mac, Tracktion 1 on an old PC, Tracktion 2, and MU.LAB and Podium and energyXT2 and Reaper, and even trials of FL Studio and Orion and Live...and here I am simply and completely and absolutely totally unable to even register a free version of Cakewalk Home Studio...well, how may I respond as a consumer but to more or less ignore this program and such? If I can figure out the others, then why should/may/might this be anything near a mystery?
I think it's a shame because I'd like to take the time to look into an iteration of a long-lived DAW that seemingly nearly lost it's life. However it would seem to me, as an outsider, that I begin to see already how and why... if one cannot nearly immediately install and register intuitively and immediately then why bother (is just the start of 'why')?

My first thought are: I'M the jerk that's missing something. But, what? I've succeeded with others, so.. So...what? That's not a good thing, if I'm sitting in that space...
The basic steps are:

1. Create an account.

2. Go to the redemption page.

3. Enter the redemption code.

4. Go to 'My Products' page.

Click on 'Sonar Home Studio', and you will be taken to the download page, with a direct link to the installer as well as a link to Command Center download.

Installing Command Center is the easiest way to get it done. as well as for getting all the extras, as the bundled instruments, effects, docs, and demos are all separate downloads. Command Center can access it all, and you can see what is installed or not.
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zzz00m wrote:One solution for those large projects would be to 'save as' a copy of them with 8 or fewer busses. :wink:
Indeed. That is what I will be doing.

BTW: One other thing, only seven of the eight busses are assignable; one of the eight is reserved to be the master fader.
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The master bus can be deleted, as it is just another stereo bus, routed to your hardware outputs. You can choose to show the hardware output faders instead if you wish. The only drawback to that setup is that you couldn't put insert effects on the output at the master mix level that way. Level control faders is the only option the hardware outputs show up with.
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zzz00m wrote:The basic steps are: ...
Yeah. I did all that. I just could not figure out how to register Home Studio itself after install. I also was unaware of what Command Center did/is. I've downloaded it now. I just haven't had the time or been in the headspace of messing with it again just yet. Heh.
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I installed it, haven't played around with it, then uninstalled it the moment I found Cakewalk axed by Gibson.

Now that Bandlab bought Cakewalk, I might install it again if I see some future in it.

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Registered. Always nice to have. Thanks for the tip!
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