You will get wizard for what you have to do and the view is 'left to right, top to bottom' style. If you want 'guided start', try Tracktion. Cakewalk is one of convenient to use and simple to understand DAWs.īut you can try other DAWs. Especially if you want understand why the behavior of something does not match your expectation. Independent from the DAW, you will need to learn it first. Also it is oriented toward 'conventional' way to produce music, so record from external sources (audio and MIDI) and then edit the result. The framework is oriented toward the intuition and intention of musicians and studio engineers. Music production software is not 'simple'. I'm probably gonna receive a very biased opinion since a non-cakewalk user wouldn't read the Cakewalk forum lol but please don't flame me. Is it the same with other DAWs? I was mega hyped when the thought of making some of my own tracks came up and now I'm mega tilted and on the verge of ditching everything. Plenty of features actually don't work as intented, audio bugs, Cakewalk splitting your work into pieces that you have to merge back together but it doesn't work 2 times out of 3.

so I'm no stranger to pieces of software that are hard to master and yet Cakewalk, which should be a simple music making software, is extremelly unreliable and not intuitive at all in my opinion. I work in the Visual Effects industry, which is full of very complex and advanced software with scripting, code, nodal stuff etc.

If i'm being honest i'm actually really mad and tilted about this software. I just want your honest opinion about it compared to the other DAWs you tried.

Hello, I'm a complete newbie in the music production, I started 2 weeks ago with Cakewalk because it was free.

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