# cakewalk advice?

Category: Jam Session

## Post 1 by KT (Veteran Zoner) on Thursday, 16-Sep-2010 17:02:35

HI to all cakewalk users out there. I recently aquired a new laptop wich has vista on it. For years I used music creater 3 from cakewalk and with xp, it works very well. Now, however, I suspect I will need to upgrade. Would I be better upgrading to a later version of music creater, or maybee trying another cw product suitable for vista such as sonar home studio? and would jsonar or cake talking be easier to use?

## Post 2 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Friday, 17-Sep-2010 1:31:03

if you are fimiliar with music creator and it works for you stick with it providing you can find scripts that work with it. JSonar works fine for m, but its free and you are limited to relying on a mailing list for support if you can't figure things out yourself AlsoJsonar works with the actual sonar inferface instead of caketaling which puts it own virtual interface over sonar and has its own showrtcut keys instead of relying all the cakewalk ones, However with caketalking you can call someone up for tech support and etc. Persoanally I am a Sonar user and like it.

## Post 3 by KT (Veteran Zoner) on Saturday, 18-Sep-2010 16:40:13

Cheers. I got this music creater about four years ago before vista came out, not sure if it will work or not. I have Jaws ten so, if I install my original cw product and scripts maybee it willwork? I have been told sonar is good, possibly better than mc, but money was tight at that time and music creater was the cheaper option. either way, I@ll probably have to upgrade lol.

## Post 4 by monkeypusher69 (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 19-Sep-2010 23:41:01

not necessarily compability mode could get most thngs working under Vista or 7. but even so upgrade to the later version of music creator if JSonar support s it if you don't need the bigger featurs of Sonar.

## Post 5 by KT (Veteran Zoner) on Monday, 20-Sep-2010 16:48:27

I mainly use it for multi track recording, I do audio recordings using my keyboard and mic for vocals, while I know midi is meant to be the done thing for keyboard, I do like the rich sound of an audio file done well. if there are no updates for music creater 3, I will have to gowwwwith sonar of some sort. btw, do you use a separate sound card for your cakewalk recordings? up till now I havne't, but am thinking now I may use one as the sound on this thing isn't up to much. If you do, any suggestions as to what sound cards would be suitable for a laptop?