gibingus

i've been messing around with cakewalk guitar tracks on my windows xp machine at home and posted about it in this thread, but i thought i would open up a specific thread for it.

my beef is that you can't hear the effects real time in guitar tracks. you have to lay down the track dry and then when you play back the recording, you can hear the distortion, reverb, delay, whatever. needless to say, this is pretty lame - how can you play without monitoring your sound? i dug pretty deep through the cakewalk forums and it seems like this is just the way it is. major drawback. they say in the threads that you need to use either their sonar or home studio products to monitor real time sound, which pretty much makes guitar tracks useless in my book. would you buy a word processing program that wouldn't let you look at what you typed until you were done?

so are there any computer guit players out there who have experienced this and worked around it or know of good software for real time effects processing and recording?

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mercury-hg

probably the best reasonably priced product that does what you want is the Line6 Guitar Port, though it's hardware rather than software. (well, fine... it has a software interface too) really good quality realtime effects processing though.

Music Studio Deluxe might also do what you want, but i can't guarantee that.

kiwiman

I use Guitar Pro and i find that very good for my guitaring needs.

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