![]() I've noticed several of them move on to other DAW forums as I did. I was back and forth with Cakewalk in various incarnations over the years as I dabbled in competing products.Īctually met many good people in the forum there, some developed into real-world friendships that continue to this day. Like many other early Cakewalk users, long story of a young musician experimenting with sequencers, etc., which then eventually turned into DAWs. Man, those were good days.Ĭakewalk was a consistent part of those memories, so when I hear occasional news about Cakewalk it usually leads to moments of nostalgia. Way too much cheese! Eventually I had Cakewalk synced to a 4-track, then to an 8-track reel-to-reel with a Mackie 8-bus mixer. I was also an early user of Cakewalk before the Cakewalk Pro Audio days, many great memories of old cheesy songs written back then. I started with Cakewalk for DOS in the 80s, then the Windows versions, then the Pro Audio versions in the 90s and lastly the Sonar versions up to Sonar 5, which was the last one for me. Once the notation coders were gone, Sonar got almost no updating for notation because nobody was intimately familiar with that section of code. I always thought the reason Sonar was so easily disturbed was that the underlying MIDI code was stuff Greg Hendershott wrote when Cakewalk was strictly a MIDI sequencer, then other coders were involved in bolting on audio recording to it, and another group of coders wrote the musical notation, but then created their own notation company (I forget the name). If Noel and the current batch of coders are really doing a completely new app, and not recycling old Sonar code, they could possibly create a stable DAW. Not sure how well the new direction will fare in the current DAW market, but even for nostalgia's sake, it's cool that they are still marching along in their own way. They are one of the OG DAW brands as you know, and they deserve a chapter in the DAW history book. anyway, the forum makes for interesting reading these days.Īnyway, I am happy to see them regain their own brand though. Proving that Cakewalk fanboy-ism is in a class by itself. Interestingly, most of the highly-pissed-off life-timers seem OK with this. Now, after 5 years of free cakewalk, Bandlab is going to start charging for it again. This further enraged the folks who bought the phony lifetime updates. Then this guy Meng comes along and just gives it away. This of course greatly annoyed those who did that upgrade, not surprisingly. So they monetized Cakewalk users very effectively, before pulling the plug. Now before Gibson abandoned it, they had offered lifetime updates for 200.00. Then, all of a sudden, this guy Meng from Malaysia buys the rights to Cakewalk, and announces that Cakewalk will now be free for anyone who wants it. ![]() At that point, seeing it was dead, I jumped back to Sonar 8.5, just to make sure I could continue using it indefinitely (which you can). Then, Gibson Guitars, who owned Cakewalk at the time, decided to abandon it, causing much consternation. I was using Reaper on Windows at that point. But after they changed the GUI, after Sonar 8.5, some folks went elsewhere. I was intending this thread to be of interest to former Cakewalk users, may of whom left for Reaper.Īnyone familiar with the Cakewalk saga will know that it was a great DAW, and one of the first. I did try it once with wine, and it didn't work, although it almost did. I wasn't suggesting Cakewalk as a Linux DAW.
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