If you cut your teeth on a portable digital multi-track recorder—or, and I'm dating myself here, a 4-track cassette studio—then prepare to be amazed. Cakewalk SONAR X3 ($149.99 list) may be the least ...

There’s no easier-to-use or more complete consumer-level audiorecording, ripping, editing and burning suite on the market thanCakewalk’s pyro Audio Creator 1.5. A lot of what it covers isavailable in ...