Beepster
Welcome. You can use SONAR LE. It will record, mix and export. However it is a "lite edition" meaning it doesn't have nearly all the tools the full versions have AND it's really old now.
 
Good news though, Cakewalk was bought by a company called Bandlab a little while ago and they are distributing the current version of SONAR for free.
 
So YES you can use LE but you might as well just download the free Bandlab version which is based on the latest release of SONAR.
 

 
Now I have a question for the other guys who may or may not have been paying more attention than I have been able to as of late... I notice that SONAR is still (or again) being sold in the Cakewalk Store. Did I miss something?

Hi Beepster,
 
Thank you very much for a good advice!
 
I downloaded cakewalk and now I am fighting with it. It looks good but unfortunately its not much intuitive...
 
E.T.
 
 
 
 

Check these out:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcMFaBl16BA&list=PLSfPaEe4wG_TxprjqVLxh9yAH-zGhA8bH
 
For something more advanced/comprehensive (based on Sonar X2, but still applicable for the most part): 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1DLE2UIfM&list=PLKRYWdEpbc5PgUgvrNuSvVyfv5qkll0qj
 
 

EasyTarget
Hi Beepster,
 
Thank you very much for a good advice!
 
I downloaded cakewalk and now I am fighting with it. It looks good but unfortunately its not much intuitive...
 
E.T.

Here is a link to a series of tutorials on youtube on how to use SONAR...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1DLE2UIfM
 
They are showing/using an older version of SONAR but most of the functions are the same. It is in English but hopefully just seeing what is being done on screen (by Karl Rose who is a forum member here) might help you figure things out.
 
Some things may be different though. In that case make sure you download the manual so if something isn't working or is different you can look up the new way.
 
Cheers and good luck.