Cakewalk Sonar Producer, Studio or Garageband?

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Hi - I am looking at setting up a small home studio. I am planning on purchasing a new computer, so I'm open to Mac or PC. It was recommended that I buy the Presonus firebox external sound card. Now I need to decide whether to go with Sonar Studio or Producer software to go with a PC or Garageband for Mac. I am not a studio girl, I've always been on the performing side. I'm looking for high quality demo type of stuff only. Not looking to compete with the pros. But I DO need something very easy to use as I am not comfortable with all the learning necessary with complex programs. Looking to simply record originals with piano and voice, and then have the ability to add drums, guitar, etc from the software itself. I also have students with background music already saved to discs (CD-G) that I would like to run through and then have them record vocals to burn to CD.

Please, any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. I'm overwhelmed by the options out there and don't know where to start.

Thanks!
 
You simply cannot beat apple's mac and garage band for simplicity and ease of use. The newer ilife update for garage band brings it up to 24 bit /48k sample rate as well, so the sound is good enough to make some great sounding tracks. For an entertainer with no recording experience, I'd go that way. You'll be recording in no time instead of reading instruction manuals. Plus, if you decide to take your tracks to a real studio, all garage band tracks open directly into logic, which many professional studios will have available.
 
Sonar will have many more windows and buttons confusing you than some other DAW's. Consider Reaper and Tracktion. I use Reaper and it's pretty solid and the interface does not intimidate.

Also many of these so called big name DAW's like Sonar are more buggy. Cakewalk just released Sonar 8 and there is already many people having issues with the sound dropping out.
 
Thanks to both of you for your responses. I hadn't heard of the other two programs, but will research them today.

:)
 
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