I've been throwing myself out there to do random non-commital pedal steel/guitar for bands, and have gotten a few bites. It occured to me the other night that it might benefit me to get some kind of recording software, so's I can take a band's recording, paste my playing on top of it, and send it back to them via internet, 21st century style. It would also be cool to be able to record some of the song ideas that have been floating around in my head for the last several years.
I was just looking at "Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 6" on MF for $99. Does anybody know anything about this? Good or Bad? Is there better for the same $$$ or cheaper?
What I'm looking for:
-Affordability
-Ability to create drum tracks
-Decent built in compressor
-Decent amp modelers
-anything else you can recommend for my situation
The last band I was in recorded with a friend of the band that had a "studio" in his parent's garage. I remember on the computer screen you could see the individual tracks, one on top of the other, scrolling horizontally across the screen. He was grabbing clips from here and there, pushing them to the left or right channel, ramping the volume up/down at certain parts, etc. Does this sound familiar? Does the Cakewalk Sonar 6 do anything like this? It seemed like a pretty intuitive format.
I'm a complete newb to computer recording software, so go easy on me! Thanks.