Cakewalk Home Studio 2004

Cakewalk Home Studio 2004 , Brand Cakewalk
I bought this from EBay in January 2004, and from what I see today Amazon is offering an excellent price.On first appearance, this software looks to be complciated to learn. The thing is, they packed it with more features than I personally would ever need. If you have the patience, you can really get some neat things out of the software. I played around with it, but eventually discarded the manual and started using it just like my old tape-drive 4-track recorder. Build-in metronome? Cool. Don't need it. Built-in effects? Might use it someday. Not today. So - you can get off the ground with the basic pretty quickly. One really neat thing is graphicly selecting regions that you want to punch in before hitting record. All in all, really good.There are a couple of clunky thing about it that you can work around easily - if you try to record a track before selectin...