wav format, which sounds better through our sound system. mp4 format, and then adjust the tempo and key so that it is within the singing capabilities of our congregation. It solved our problems! I download the hymn in. I saw an ad for Song Surgeon and tried the free trial. Most of our congregation are older folks, and the recorded hymns were too fast and in too high a key. We were delighted to find that we could play it through our sound system, and the pipe organ music was more than our little organ ever produced.īut there were problems. I learned of a free web site where 90% of our hymnal is recorded, and we took a look at the music that was there. Our organist of many years retired and we were completely unable to find anyone to take his place. We are a small congregation in a rural area. I just hope that the program continues, once Cakewalk died on me, the files I created were useless and now I have to start from scratch again, and I can see already, that Song Surgeon is going to make that task easy for me, much easier than I would have expected at the start. Song Surgeon surpasses everything that was available in Cakewalk and more, so I am very impressed with the program. So I have had to give Bandlab the flick as well.

I purchased it in 2015 and now it is taken over by Bandlab and, while that was free, I had no end of problems downloading and activating. The price is another positive factor, even though the exchange rate is woeful at present, it still represents better value than Cakewalk which was horrendously expensive. I am also impressed that you can change the basic tuning foundation, so if you want to hear orchestral sounds as they were actually played in previous centuries, you can adjust the overall tuning from 440 to whatever you want. The chords panel is a bonus, sometimes it is difficult to determine what chords are used in a song, this is instant, even if not all chords are shown, you at least know what key it is in. Cakewalk would take minutes to transpose an audio file and then there were issues with chipmunking or the run out of battery power effect, which does not happen in Song Surgeon 5 Pro. Firstly, the speed with which it performs changes of key and tempo are amazing, fairly well instantly. I have been using Song Surgeon 5 Pro for just a short time, but already I am noticing a number of features that were not available in Sonar Cakewalk Professional.

Riffstation review 2015