Great product. You can try before you buy, so no surprises before you part with actual cash. This is one of the top reviewed recording products along with Cakewalk, Sonar, Protools LE, Magix Studio and a lot of others. Perhaps I'm taking a too simple approach - but having looked at all of these differing products for hours, I have to say that the easy decision is to plump for this because it does the job as well as anything else and it's Sony. (Never had a poor product from Sony - so there's the power of a brand working on me at least.) But don't take my word for it, you can get a free and complete download of the whole system from the Sony website and try it for 30 days. When a manufacturer does that, you know they are confident that this is a good offering - something a lot of the competition doesn't seem to want to chance. So, try it before you buy it if you're in any doubt.