Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 was designed for the Windows 95, 98, and NT environments. Its primary strength lies in its dual handling of MIDI and digital audio within a single interface.
While most DAWs forced you to look at piano rolls, shipped with an industry-leading notation editor. You could print professional lead sheets directly from your MIDI data. For composers writing for live musicians, this was a killer app. You could tweak dynamics, articulations, and lyrics on a five-line staff intuitively. Cakewalk Pro 9