Cakewalk Home Studio Questions

Hello folks, I just have a few questions about Cakewalk Home Studio, if anyone can help me with any of these, that would be most appreciated. I wish there was a demo available so i could really try this before spending cash on it... so here are my questions...

- Rewire Power

I plan to use Reason in Cakewalk Home Studio, the site says 64 audio channels, does that include Rewire channels ? Or do Rewire channels work separately to audio ? Also, is it easily possible to create a stereo Rewire track and route say, output 5 from Reason to the left of the channel and output 6 from Reason to the right of the channel ?

- Audio organisation

The one feature I loved when I tried the Cubase demo is the audio pool where you can see everything you have recorded (even if it has been removed from the arrangement). How does this work in Cakewalk ? so for example, I record 3 takes of a vocal track, I like take 3 and remove take 1 and 2 from the arrangement. At a later date, I decide I want to go back to take 1, how do I find take 1 ??

- Insert, Group & Send Limits

This is an important point not mentioned on the Cakewalk site. Are the number of inserts per track limited ? Are the number of groups or sends limited ? If so, to what number are they limited ?

- Direct Monitoring

I have an Echo Layla3G which supports ASIO2 and WDM, does Cakewalk Home Studio support direct monitoring of the input signal like Cubase does ?

I think those are basically my main 4 concerns, any help would be mostly appreciated, thanks a lot for reading my thread :D

thanks a lot sinc ! :D

Guys, any further thoughts on rewire and/or number of inserts, sends, groups ?

not totally sure about the audio tracks, here's the direct quote off the cakewalk site

64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks

which makes me think they mean 64 tracks of audio playing simultaneously rather than physical channels.

I use Reason with Home studio (Rewired).When you insert the rewire device Cakewalk asks you about how many channels you want.The choices are all(64) or 1(hardware mixer L&r).I usually keep all my synth tracks in Reason,submixed by the mixers and effects in Reason,then into HS via the hardware mixer outputs.This way frees up tracks and visual space in HS.If you need to do some specail processing of a specific synth in HS,you can insert an audio track and route that one separetly from the others. I haven't noticed any difference sonically doing it this way.

Frank

thanks a lot for your help guys :D most appreciated