You can use VirtualBox (open source) or (what I prefer) Parallels on MacOS and install any OS in a virtual machine. (I've never used any Cakewalk product, not because I dislike the software, but because it's been a long time - seventeen years now - since I've used Windows on any of my own computers.) I'm just passing on information about a free DAW, that might be of interest to some of you. Here is a direct link to the Bandlab website where you can download the free Cakewalk software: BandLab: Music Starts HereĭISCLAIMER: I have never used any Cakewalk product, and have no affiliation with the company, in present or past incarnations. Here is a Guitar World article about this: Cakewalk Returns, Now Available for Free - Guitar World In a rather unusual move, Bandlab has made Sonar free, and appears to be promising to keep it free.

When Gibson killed Cakewalk, Sonar died too.īut there is good news for people who liked to use Sonar, as well as for anyone looking for a free DAW: Cakewalk's IP has been purchased from Gibson Corp by a business group calling themselves BandLab. audio recording software) called Sonar that was very popular.

Some of you may know that a well-loved music software company, Cakewalk, was acquired in 2013, and then killed in 2016, by Gibson Corp.Ĭakewalk had a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, i.e.

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