11-22-2017, 07:00 PM
^^ My hope too... something like how Dorico emerged from the ashes of Avid employment slashes to the Sibelius team. I actually had the chance to meet a few of the Cakewalk people and they struck me as very nice, down-to-earth people.
I also think they too were caught by surprise by this, as Cakewalk recently announced/released a new mobile/desktop program for "songwriting on the go". I wonder what will happen to that now... very sad.
Gibson are total fools in my opinion for focusing on consumer audio, which imho is massively oversaturated and filled with the crap Chinese factories can spew out. No western company can compete with that stuff in terms of price, only "audiophool" stuff seems to be worth making; at least in the professional world there are good earnings to be had. Apparently they own Philips and plan to develop stuff via that brand. I thought Philips was long dead, but apparently it's still making stuff.
I've used Cakewalk Sonar for about 8 years and I've enjoyed it. Their regular free updates were unequalled imho, and they were really making some great strides, even working on a Mac version. I think it will remain compatible with OS's for at least half a decade if not a whole decade (64-bit architecture isn't going anywhere any time soon, unlike what happened to 16-bit back in the late 90's into early 2000's, which is the leading cause of old programs not working on new OS's to my knowledge). I think people will still be using current-gen Sonar for another decade and I don't think the "old timers" will be abandoning ship in great droves. DAWs are for some like religions, and it's hard to see the end of one.
In fact, is this the first major DAW that has died? I can't think of any others, only some minor ones that died during 'birth'...
The one issue we face now is SFZ- it has been under the uh... "protection(?)" of Cakewalk for about a decade (being used to power their software). Of course, new options like HISE are coming along nicely, and Plogue/Garritan will certainly keep the format in operation for their own libraries, but it's still a question of what will happen to the format legally.
I also think they too were caught by surprise by this, as Cakewalk recently announced/released a new mobile/desktop program for "songwriting on the go". I wonder what will happen to that now... very sad.
Gibson are total fools in my opinion for focusing on consumer audio, which imho is massively oversaturated and filled with the crap Chinese factories can spew out. No western company can compete with that stuff in terms of price, only "audiophool" stuff seems to be worth making; at least in the professional world there are good earnings to be had. Apparently they own Philips and plan to develop stuff via that brand. I thought Philips was long dead, but apparently it's still making stuff.
I've used Cakewalk Sonar for about 8 years and I've enjoyed it. Their regular free updates were unequalled imho, and they were really making some great strides, even working on a Mac version. I think it will remain compatible with OS's for at least half a decade if not a whole decade (64-bit architecture isn't going anywhere any time soon, unlike what happened to 16-bit back in the late 90's into early 2000's, which is the leading cause of old programs not working on new OS's to my knowledge). I think people will still be using current-gen Sonar for another decade and I don't think the "old timers" will be abandoning ship in great droves. DAWs are for some like religions, and it's hard to see the end of one.
In fact, is this the first major DAW that has died? I can't think of any others, only some minor ones that died during 'birth'...
The one issue we face now is SFZ- it has been under the uh... "protection(?)" of Cakewalk for about a decade (being used to power their software). Of course, new options like HISE are coming along nicely, and Plogue/Garritan will certainly keep the format in operation for their own libraries, but it's still a question of what will happen to the format legally.
Sample library developer, composer, and amateur organologist at Versilian Studios.