Originally Posted by: jimmy_kwtxMe and My son played around with the cakewalk for guitar (purchased best buy about 5 years ago) Early version.

We plugged directly into the sound card but we kept having "dropping out" issues.

Upgrade your soundcard and make sure the latency is set low enough so there is no audible delay but not so low that your pc melts from the stress. I Use cakewalk myself and I wouldn't use anything else now that I know what I'm doing. I rarely ever have dropouts. I only have them if I try to record 6 or more channels at once so I got out of that habit. A bit restrictive if you wanna live record a band but for just recording a track or two at once it works fine. If you wanna hear www.soundclick.com/magicninja (free) all done in Cakewalk Music Creator Pro. Older software, should be quite cheap by now. The dropping out is caused (I think) by your pc not being able to handle the memory usage recording is causing. Try setting your latency higher.