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Over the course of the review, we had to re-boot multiple times to вЂgive' X1 Essential control of our audio interfaceДЇor the price, X1 Essentials includes everything you need to make music at home - with the exception of a cheap MIDI keyboard and a decent microphone.

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In addition, the software doesn't play nicely with anything else that uses sound. We didn't find some of the editing and arranging features, as intuitive as Cakewalk clearly thinks they are. We kept forgetting to arm tracks, before recording, and wasted a lot of good takes - this way of working will come with practice. We found the half-rack effects the best, particularly the Studioverb that has a depth and quality you don't often get, with products at this price. There are however, more than 30 effects included with X1 Essentials. There was one oddity: we couldn't register the included copy of Amplitube X-GEAR, a fine-looking guitar amp and effects simulator, because it kept asking for a Zip code. A little familiarity with the way that mixing desks and effects chains work, in the real world, is invaluable here. Recording MIDI or audio is relatively straightforward, though newcomers may have to get their heads round routing, to achieve the desired results. Hook up a cheap MIDI keyboard (widely available for under ВЈ50) and you've got all the sounds, sequences and loops you'll need, to start making all types of music. Plus, a selection of sampled instruments - bass, drums, electric piano and strings, which allow you to play individual notes, but they also include a wide selection of pre-recorded sequences you can use. This also includes Dimension LE (400 sounds, including the highly thought of Garritan Pocket Orchestra), the Dropzone sampler and the Square 1 vintage analogue-style synth. 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. X1 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 вЂsets' 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. Session is still a nice player/librarian for those sounds.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. Session was intended to be a step up freebie that would import your Dimension Pro, Rapture (classic), and Sound Center presets. It was never bundled with Sonar, but the Rapture Session was.

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Rapture Pro was a completely reworked product that combined Dimension Pro and Rapture.

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The fist Rapture (classic) was available in Sonar 7 thru X1 as an LE version (the full version was available for sale as a standalone), and then the full version was bundled with X2 thru Platinum. Just to be clear, Rapture and Rapture Session/Pro are completely different products. Which of course work a treat in modern day Cakewalk. However, in the process I also got a nice handful of useful plug-ins, the Project5 DXi processors and Rapture Session.

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I did so myself about a year ago believe it or not my sole aim was to get my hands on the 2,000 page pdf SONAR manual. login, I believe it may still be possible to obtain the free version of SONAR Home Studio that was given away as magware (Computer Music, I think) a few years back.

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So what the OP should try, if he has access, is install a version of SONAR that has Rapture or just use Rapture if he already has it?