Cakewalk Home Studio 2002

[Mastermindzz]

Anyone using this program, what do you think of it and what do you think of it compared to Logic, Sonar, Cubase, or Pro Tools?

[Paul881]

I am using it, I upgraded from CW8.0 Express. I am well satisfied with it, it does everything I need for recording mainly audio (guitar and vocals). And I am also getting into Midi and soundfonts. I will upgrade to Sonar in a years time, but until then, I am still finding my way through HS 2002.

[walrus]

If I used this program for strictly audio recording with no midi, how many tracks could I look at getting with a PIII 850?

[Paul881]

Hey Walrus...

Wel, it really depends on what real time effects you are using, your operating system and a myriad other variables. I run a PII 400meg with 768 meg ram on win 98 and have recorded 7 tracks okay.

How many tracks were you thinking of running?

Paul

[walrus]

Well, I am currently using Music Studio Gen 5 by Magix. I have done around 16 tracks with no problem. The manual says up to 32 tracks, but I haven't pushed it that far yet. I was just thinking that N-track or Cakewalk 2002 might allow me at least 24 tracks with better built in fx.

[Paul881]

Afraid I can't help you there, my recording experience is much more modest. Maybe some of the other guys can help you. But check out the search facility on this forum, see the icon at the top of the page. I searched and found the following quote on the 09-19-2001, admittedly using Sonar, but what the hell

Keep in mind that I've never had any difficulty working with 15-20 simultaneous tracks, using Cakewalk's default

I think it came from forum member Eurythmic.

Best of luck.

[dafunkewun]

paul881,

I've worked with a friend's version of CW8.0, and noticed that it limited us to only 4 tracks playback.
I wasn't sure if it was a trial version or what...but i've been looking into getting CW2002
is there any limitation on how many tracks can be played back, or is it only dependent on the computer capabilities?

[brzilian]

I picked up HS2002. Playback tracks is pretty much tied to your hardware. HS2002, is pretty much Sonar without some of the extras (less MIDI editing, no groove quantization ,etc...)

I've been happy with it for over a month now.

[Paul881]

Brzilian is right, HS 2002 is Sonar without some of the whizz bangs but easily sufficient for most amatuers...like me.

CW 8.0 was limited to just a few tracks because it was a demo package for $20, I used to have it before upgrading to HS2002. It was also slow and had latency problems. There is no track limitation on HS2002, only the natural limits of your set-up. So go for HS2002, it will be the best $50 you have ever spent (trust me, I'm a salesman!)

Hope this helps.

[dafunkewun]

I thought that might be the case with HS8.

Thankx for all of your help, i will definitely buy it!