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Difficult for the Sake of Difficulty
I have to agree 100 percent with the reviews below: This software was written without any consideration to the end user. Just getting the thing to make a sound--any sound at all--is a major undertaking. Instead of just programming the junk to use your soundcard, it is made so that it will remain mute until you search out the soundcard manually and inform the software to use it. Each and every @!?%$#@*&!!!! time you copy or create a track, you have to tell the software AGAIN to use the soundcard. I'd love to get an explanation from the manufacturer as to why this is--were they under the impression that some users would want to program music and then NEVER LISTEN TO IT?!?!? <
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>There are 4 or 5 possible 'views' of each tune on this software, but the layout, and the archane instructions that come with the software, could lead you to believe that that is really an astronomical figure. The guide book is written in an amazingly, astonishingly complex manner, making it virtually unuseable. <
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>I've had the software 3 weeks and have yet to get a second's enjoyment out of it. I've played music all my life and have done some composing on my computer before, but I can say without a shadow of a doubt I will never--NEVER--get any use out of this overly complex piece of junk. Everything about this appears to have been overdone by software engineers looking to impress other software engineers, with no thought of any kind given to the end user or how the software would be used. <
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>A complete and total waste of money. I'll never buy anything from Cakewalk again. Never.

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Buy something else instead.
This program about made me go crazy just trying to get it to work. All I wanted was something with which I could record bass and guitar tracks and add prerecorded drum tracks to those so I could record some demos for my band, but apparently that was asking too much. This program refused to work on my laptop, it kept saying something about how the MIDI interface wasn't supported. Gee really? I wounder how the heck Guitar Pro 4 works on my laptop them since that uses MIDIs too? And for some reason, because it refused to use the MIDI on my soundcard, I couldn't record real instruments. Now, I'm no expert, but what do MIDIs have to do with actual audio tracks? And why couldn't I record any bass or guitar parts and play them back? I guess that uses MIDI too, amazing. I had someone who works on computers for a living look at it and they were dumbfounded at why it was doing what it was doing. Then I tried to use this program on my parents desktop, but I had lost the slip that the CD came in, which had the needed code to install on it. So basicly I ended up throwing $40 down the drain. I should've put that money towards a decent program or wasted it on something fun at least, like fireworks or strippers.

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Music Majors Will Pull Out Their Hair With his Program!
As a former music major who writes instrumental and vocal music, and who is not creating a CD or music video for her music at this time, this program drove me CRAZY!!! In spite of great searching, I was unable to see both tracks for a song at the same time in a standand layout except while in Print Preview Mode. All other times, it just continued scrolling indefinitely! I could not change a note to an accidental unless I used Piano scroll mode (a huge grid with a piano keyboard sideways on the left). I could not insert a repeat sign or a fermata to save my life. These may be available, but the program certainly was not intuitive, nor accessible using the help options I used. While many wannabee rock star composers could not care less about these things, people with serious music backgrounds will sorely miss an accessible way to write musical notations. In spite of it being marketed as ideal software for all music writers, it seems this program was designed for music creators who do not know how to write music to captured their music in a variety of ways, modify it, and prepare their own CDs and videos. <
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>I purchased this program less than a year ago, and have not been able to complete the tortuous process of inputing (by hand) even one song with this program. I am now looking for a new program that meets the needs of musicians who understand musical notation and want a computer to help provide neat, printed copies of their music.