I'm interested to know what you can do on CW 3 regarding MIDI sequencing that can't be done on the later Cakewalk DAWs.
The audio features are not mandatory; you can select the 'MIDI Only' template and click away. And Music Creator 5 is only $35 for the download. That doesn't include all of the sounds for the soft synths (the boxed version has everything for $40), but you won't need them anyway.
I've been doing MIDI sequencing (I think
) for years on MC 2003, MC Pro 24 and SHS6.
I'm not trying to start an argument; I really want to know what the differences are.