Cakewalk by Bandlab ( free )

[dave.king1]

What do you use, Dave? I've been using Garageband and am slowly coming to grips with it; is Cakewalk the same sort of thing?

I have used Reaper since about 2012, prior to that I had a hate/hate relationship with both Cakewalk and the Cubase, having said that I believe the root of my previous problems was lack of understanding and less tutorial resources than exist today.

The signup process doesn't appear to be invasive, my guess it will be to encourage an upgrade to Sonar Platinum and also to flog proprietary plugins via marketing emails which can be unsubscribed

[king casey]

The signup process doesn't appear to be invasive, my guess it will be to encourage an upgrade to Sonar Platinum and also to flog proprietary plugins via marketing emails which can be unsubscribed

O.K. Seeing 'sign in with facebook' set the alarm bells ringing with the baggage that crowd seems to be carrying around lately.
Now I get the ever so helpful 'BandLab' assistant popping up every time I boot up the PC.

cheers, Mark.

[dave.king1]

O.K. Seeing 'sign in with facebook' set the alarm bells ringing with the baggage that crowd seems to be carrying around lately.
Now I get the ever so helpful 'BandLab' assistant popping up every time I boot up the PC.

cheers, Mark.

I created an account using my email address which hopefully avoids the FB & Google gremlins.

Installation adds the helper to your start menu so just dive in there and remove it, nothing to do with FB