Aaron, if you bought the MP3 encoder within Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, you can use it in SONAR. If I remember correctly it basically checked on my Pro Audio CD Key and enabled it.
kennedy connor,
I think you are exaggerating.
Most computer stuff I try works just fine, and I consider it something of a miracle. I would never expect such a complicated house of cards to be as robust as a piece of wood with strings on it; then, I would never be able to do all the million miraculous things I could with a PC with a guitar or a trombone.
The complexity and instability of it is part of the landscape, like it or not. We all wish Windows was as robust as Linux; we all know it probably never will be. And the more features and functionality is added, the more likely it is that some combinations of hardware, software, and configuration settings is going to cause unpredictable behavior. Digital audio is maybe a little messier than other stuff since it uses so much of the machine's resources and so if all the billion little things that might affect something are not lined up just so, something noticeable happens.
For every story I read about someone being unable to install SONAR or get it to work without blowing up their computer and emitting gamma rays, there are at least as many that say, "I installed it and I had no problems at all." Probably more, or who would be using it any more?
I agree, I think SONAR 1.0 was released a tad prematurely. But that line is very hard to draw.
