Cakewalk Guitar Tracks

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Anyone have an opinion on Guitar Tracks? I'm very new to recording software. Is it a pretty limited program compared to something like N-track or the more expensive Cakewalk programs. I know you get what you pay for, but i have heard mostly good stuff about N-track and nothing about Guitar Tracks.

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I'm using Guitar Tracks to record with some friends doing a sort of bluegrass rock. Voice, acoustic guitar, electric bass, and mandolin. We plan on adding violin when the fiddle player can come visit for awhile. We use drum software to lay down a beat, play to that, and drop the drums out later. This isn't very demanding recording we're doing, and I'm new to the digital world, but I haven't found anything yet that I wanted to do and couldn't. It is a very favorable experience compared to the old tape units I worked with years ago. Much easier, much more fun, much more powerful, and much better sound. I can't compare it to N-track -- I don't even know what that is. But so far I haven't found anything to complain about. The version of Guitar Tracks I bought came with a demo of the next level up, Guitar Studio, but I haven't been able to get that to even play the demo projects that came with it. Admittedly, I haven't tried very hard because Guitar Tracks does everything I need and is very simple, straight forward, and easy to use. And cheap.
 
Thanks for the reply Al Sim. The recording that i will be doing will be very simple also. I have the Guitar tracks demo and like it so far, but I was worried I'd wind up limiting myself with it. N-Tracks is another recording program, you can check it out if you want in the N-track users forum.

Well Any ways thanks for the input.
 
Well, k-spar, you will be limiting yourself.......... a lot of questions in this HR stuff don't have easy answers. Guitar tracks has a limit of 8 tracks, and I believe can only record at 16bit/44.1k sample rate. If that suits your needs, it is a very usable program for $50. Hope this helps.
 
I'm glad you started this thread. I took a look at the N-Tracks forum, then went to their web site and downloaded the demo. If it lives up to its reputation, I may be a convert.
 
I think I am leaning toward n-tracks also . . . I like the way guitar tracks looks (like an analog 4 track) and I like that it is very intuitive, but N-track just seems to feel a little more right, does that make sense? Let me know how you trials with n-track go Al Sim, looks like you do more recording thatn i do right now.

Thanks
 
n-Track was a bust for me. It made loud crackling noises when I moved one of the main window sliders and crashed a couple times, for no apparent reason. Too bad, because I liked what I saw of it. Now I'm looking into Guitar Studio...
 
sorry bout the n-track let down . . . THat's why I started the thread i suppose to get some opinions. Thanks again though Al SIm . . .
 
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