Curt thanx for the reply,
.....I too used Cakewalk years ago for a long while but have since changed to Mixcraft 8 pro for most of my DAW duties,......
https://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/mixcraft-pro-studio.html

I will certainly look into the new cake walk since I am not a Mac user at all for anything....thank you for the link to the download.