Some Questions

Hello,

I am currently a Reaper user but am still in the testing process. However, I saw that Music Creator is 40$ at my local Staples and I'm curious if it would be good enough for me (instead of paying the 60$ for the Reaper).
I am mostly composing Ambient music; I use some VST synths and combine the music with field recordings. The sound quality is very important though.
So for me to see if Music Creator is good enough I want to ask:
1) does it support VST instruments well?

2) is it able to import/export wavs good?
3) is the sound quality lower than other DAWs (like Reaper)?
4) can it edit audio? I saw that it has some editing abilities, can anyone explain what exactly they are (i'm interested in fade out/in, time stretch, pitch change)
5) can you create bits in it?
6) is it very resource hungry? I don't have a very computer and also, it is not connected to the internet.
7) are there any mastering tools such as EQ, compressors?
8) does it have music notation?
I am also curious what the differences are between Sonar X1 editions and the Music Creator. I am not a sound engineering, so please don't go too hard on technical details.

Thank you in advance.

as these guys have already said, MC will do everything Reaper can.  it's really a matter of preference or "workflow" which will work for you better.  Reaper is better at some things, cakewalk is better at others.

the MAIN difference between MC6 and X1 Essentials is going to be the number of simultaneous inputs you can record.  you can only record 2 inputs at the same time in MC, X1 Essentials is limited only by the hardware.  MC also has track, bus, synth and FX limits as well, but they're pretty generous and of course, there's work arounds for that.

You can fade in/out using several different methods.
Every song you hear from a CD is at 44.1 kHz. The sound quality is great. I can't comment on the differences between 32- and 64-bit audio engines, though.
MC 6, and all other Cakewalk DAW programs come on DVDs, not CDs. MC 6 is available as a download, but since your computer isn't connected, that won't work.
If you have a friend with a computer that's connected to the internet, or has a DVD drive, use their machine to either download the program to something you can connect to your computer, like a flash drive, or copy the DVD to it then load it on your computer. You're allowed to make 1 copy of the program for archiving.
Welcome to the forum.

I believe it is 3 seperate download files, When I DLed it on this computer (my DAW isn't connected to the net) I copied the files to DVD then loaded them on the DAW computer. They are huge files. Took me 10 hours to DL the whole thing.
Once loaded and extracted, you run the first file and it begins; it never asked or told me to insert a disk.
If you buy the DVD at a store, it should autoplay when you put it into the computer. Copy it to your chosen media (whatever your home computer can use) then load it on your computer.
Then delete it from your school computer to be in compliance with the TOS.
Once it is registered with Cakewalk, if you lose or don't make a copy of MC to archive, you may be able to go to your account info and download another copy. That may be up to the support folks. I don't know if you can download it if you didn't DL it to begin with.