I wound up downloading a couple of plug-ins, from KVR, in order to make the kick-drums. Oh, and Roland - I know you acquired cakewalk but Groove-synth and that other crap-tastic thing with the mixing board - they don't work (High aliasing, low functionality on my computer) but having had experience with Groove-synth, already - IT ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SUCKS - even though I've used it on a couple of songs for little odd jobs like doubling a bass-line or adding percussion. Getting Sonar to work with the HP factory soundcard (Realtek HD) in WDM Mode proved to be so jarring that I wound up down-loading ASIO4ALL, and apart from a couple of quirks (click-track comes from the headphone jack ONLY - and ONLY the click track? I have to open the audio options dialogue box and then the ASIO profile box to get sound from Sonar - and I can't expect to hear sound from ANY other application including YouTube, once Sonar has been engaged - even if it's since been turned off.), I'll hopefully be ironing out with a swift attack on the learning curve, the overall quality of this DAW far surpasses anything I've had the pleasure to work with. The included percussion processor has no face - no GUI. Shows up in the directory but errors out. The included soft-synth, Pentagon - no show. Okay - the bad part is that not everything that's supposed to work, works, and having a system with nothing less than the recommended specs, I am a little disappointed, but then Sonar, I'm guessing, has only recently acquired Windows 7 support. First times are always a little awkward as tension fills the room and her hesitation yields to the sincerity of the moment. Here is the first song: - feel free to rip it to shreds. I have fallen madly in love with my new buggy beast. I have happily made the switch from Project 5 to Sonar 8.5.

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