![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are certainly enough instruments to get you started, including the TTS-1 multi-timbral General MIDI Level 2 synth (good standard sounds, nice drums) and the Sound Center 3 (150 different instruments including some clever electric guitar effects - but no strummed guitars). In our experience, your PC will conk out long before you reach those limits, so to all intents and purposes it'll handle any home recording project. #What is cakewalk sonar x1 le softwareX1 Essentials can record unlimited MIDI tracks (remember these only contain instructions that tell the software instruments what to play and thus don't take up many resources) - as well as 64 tracks of digital audio (32-bit only). This is extremely useful, because X1 Essentials eats up a lot of screen real-estate (though it does support multiple monitors) and in this way, you can create dedicated screens for editing, mixing and so on. Windows can be dragged around and re-arranged to suit your way of working and it's then possible to save the layout in one of 10 ‘sets' which you can flip between, depending what you're doing. Underneath, everything is a tabbed area where you can display a range of components such as the mixing desk, loop creator and more. The main arrangement window is in the middle, transport and editing controls at the top, a channel strip down one side and the media pool on the other. Despite the makeover, X1 Essential's screen layout is pretty conventional. We still think the entire process is too opaque and believe that more could be done, to make the documentation more accessible, better organised and easier to follow. We paired X1 Essential, with a Lexicon Lambda MIDI/audio interface, where after a few shenanigans (the Lambda's fault, thanks to unsophisticated Windows 7 drivers) we were up and running. ![]()
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