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In article <4054hb$ib9@acmey.gatech.edu>, gt9021b@prism.gatech.edu (Troy Dennis Piper) says:
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>In article <403fai$53u@acmex.gatech.edu>,
>Toonces <gt0451e@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>>In article <40372n$n3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
>>Andrew Jenkins <axj5@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
>>>In article <4015f0$5a4@phantom.oit.gatech.edu>, taka@phantom.oit.gatech.edu (Dr.Love) says:
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>>>Cakewalk is, as far as I know, the preferred sequencing software for
>>>DOS-based machines. You really can't go wrong wqith CWPro for Windows,
>>>since it has virtually everything you'll need, and also has a VERY
>>>powerful macro language (CAL) that can be used to apply all sorts
>>>of midi effects to your sequences, as well as aiding you in doing
>>>relatively mundane tasks. The user base is huge (literally), so you'll
>>>have lots of folks to help you with questions that the manual
>>>can't answer...
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>But the big question is can it do REAL aduio as well, and if so what 
>if any card is needed, and supported.  (The original poster asked that
>both sampled audio (16 bit @ 44.1 KHz) and Midi operated together on
>the same machine under the same program)
>
>Other than the Amiga using the Bars and Pipes and Studio 16 combo, and
>some programs for the mac (which is the standard and has some very
>impressive features) I do not know of any other software for
>any other platform that allows this (SGI and Sun not included).
>
>Af course the last version I saw of Cake Walk was about a year ago,
>but even still, I do not know of any boards for the PC that will
>allow for multi track hard disk record of up to 8 channels.
>

I suppose I should have made my response clearer (Though I thought it
was...) I was responding to the second part of his question, which
was *not* talking about HD recording software, but only about midi-
sequencing progs.

Anyway, while CW Pro has no real capabilities in that arena at the present,
version 4, (due out ~ 4th quarter), will have integrated digital
audio.

Still, for midi sequencing, CW kicks ass over it's competitors, as
the relative numbers of users for each proves. 99.9% bug free operation,
staff,piano-roll,event, and Lyric view windows, Cakewalk Application 
Language (CAL), (which, BTW, no-one else offers in any form for the PC), 
etc, etc.

There are, however, a couple of packages for the PC which already offer 
integrated midi and dig audio. One is Cubase, and the other's name escapes 
me. Either way, I personally would wait for the CW midi/dig-audio prog,
because a) it isn't a ported program, b) it's rock-solid, c) it
has CAL, d) it has an enormous user-base, e) unlike the programs
you mentioned above (ie, Amiga/MAC), it runs on the PC, which is exactly
what the person who made the query was asking for.

aj