Stick with Studio One if you like it, better to use what you feel comfortable with than joing BandLab if you dont like it. Just my 2 cents.

 
You missed my point.  I only looked at Studio One because of the Sonar demise.  Yes - I indeed have found a LOT of things to like about Studio One, but I was hopeful that the purchase of Cakewalk/Sonar would revive the product and maybe in the process I'd find a new outlet for collaboration.
 
Based on what I've seen over there, so far, I'm not super pumped about it.  That's all.

I've put my hopes on BandLab. I can't get past Studio One's weird (to me) looking UI. It looks like a cartoon to my Skylight-adjusted eyeballs. 

Blades
So - I never got an email from BandLab telling me to connect the accounts together. So I went there and signed up for myself using the same email I have here.  The user Name Blades was already taken, so I had to go with Blades85 - though it's only the profile name (as in /blades85 in the URL).  I changed my Name from my real-world name over to Blades.  I'm sure I'm a conflict in some way now.
 
That said, I've done online collaboration before, so I went in with certain expectations.  They were not met. 
 
In the past, online collab meant that someone would create a song that needed some parts.  They would then add a request for auditions for those parts and members would add their bits and then the owner of the song would pick one and the process would move along until the arrangement was done and all the parts were in and someone would mix it.
 
What I saw on BandLab just poking around was a list of songs that people uploaded with no real search for "artists looking for drummers" or whatever. Just a scrolling list a la Facebook Newsfeed.  Unfortunately, I also found a LOT of it was absolute garbage - i.e. a few loops and some guy talking over the top as if he dreamed to be a rapper and never got the Rhythm part of it is a requirement nor that you have to actually have some words. ...SMH...
 
Anyway - I'd actually like to get back into Online Collaboration, but based on what I saw last night, BandLab might not be the way that I'll be doing that.  It unfortunately doesn't really give me a ton of confidence in the "takeover" of the IP either, since there is no real sense of community I can see over there, no standardization of tools and methods short of their little "apps", and definitely no "match.com" kind of interface to get people to click together and make parts for each other.
 
Was hopeful - now need to be told how to get what I want there or it pushes me even more back towards Studio One as the software since it feels like BandLab has a cool video to get you in and tells you how great it's going to be, and then leaves you swinging in the breeze for how to connect on their platform. 
 
No organization that I can see.  At all.
 
I'm open to being corrected!

Hey Blades,
 
Yours was my experience, too, when I browsed around a couple nights ago.  I did not see any of the things I expected to see in place for collaboration.

What was the name of your past collaboration site, and did you think well of it?  I'm getting ready to do a project with a bunch of musicians in St. Louis and we will need to be able to do what you described you have done in the past.
 
Thanks,
 
Toddskins
 

tobiaslindahl

Blades
So - I never got an email from BandLab telling me to connect the accounts together. So I went there and signed up for myself using the same email I have here.  The user Name Blades was already taken, so I had to go with Blades85 - though it's only the profile name (as in /blades85 in the URL).  I changed my Name from my real-world name over to Blades.  I'm sure I'm a conflict in some way now.
 
That said, I've done online collaboration before, so I went in with certain expectations.  They were not met. 
 
In the past, online collab meant that someone would create a song that needed some parts.  They would then add a request for auditions for those parts and members would add their bits and then the owner of the song would pick one and the process would move along until the arrangement was done and all the parts were in and someone would mix it.
 
What I saw on BandLab just poking around was a list of songs that people uploaded with no real search for "artists looking for drummers" or whatever. Just a scrolling list a la Facebook Newsfeed.  Unfortunately, I also found a LOT of it was absolute garbage - i.e. a few loops and some guy talking over the top as if he dreamed to be a rapper and never got the Rhythm part of it is a requirement nor that you have to actually have some words. ...SMH...
 
Anyway - I'd actually like to get back into Online Collaboration, but based on what I saw last night, BandLab might not be the way that I'll be doing that.  It unfortunately doesn't really give me a ton of confidence in the "takeover" of the IP either, since there is no real sense of community I can see over there, no standardization of tools and methods short of their little "apps", and definitely no "match.com" kind of interface to get people to click together and make parts for each other.
 
Was hopeful - now need to be told how to get what I want there or it pushes me even more back towards Studio One as the software since it feels like BandLab has a cool video to get you in and tells you how great it's going to be, and then leaves you swinging in the breeze for how to connect on their platform. 
 
No organization that I can see.  At all.
 
I'm open to being corrected!

Stick with Studio One if you like it, better to use what you feel comfortable with than joing BandLab if you dont like it. Just my 2 cents.
Personally I only got the account to be able to have my info ported over. No interest in the online colaboration thing for me anyway, so that site with its features etc is a non issue to me for the moment. 
Sonar is running fine on my PC as always and as long as that is the case I dont care about anything else really. 

I was planning on sticking with Studio One, BUT I wanted to use my Keystation 88es and Studio One wouldn't work with it. Works fine in Sonar. I tried configuring it but no luck. So I'm back with Sonar for the time being. 

I've replied earlier in this thread. But I feel I must mention the email I got as others here did also that said that I needed to create a BandLab account per the email : "to ensure that we are able to keep track of your past purchases and ownership history."
 
I'm somewhat shocked honestly, why? Because if that's how they are going to verify ownership of previous cakewalk software purchases then that is rather disturbing. I mean, "Verify who you are per your email address and creating a new account".  I assume that their verification process will be possibly looking at IP address which may have changed for some, and could possibly be spoofed by others........ 
 
This is a concern for me, and I'm not being an A-HOLE for mentioning this, and I can assure Bandlab that every cakewalk user here probably has the same concerns. 
 
So I create a new Bandlab account and I'm covered with my future Cakewalk activation's?
 
So if I don't then what will happen? Does that mean I will lose activation to my Cakewalk software forever or perhaps even worse that someone else might hack it in the future? 
 
Just to make you aware Bandlab, have you followed the latest Facebook information sharing problem for Facebook? This is a serious concern, so I want to mention it. 
 
While I can appreciate the fact Bandlab purchased Cakewalk Sonar/software. There's no need for me to thank my lucky stars for doing so because my Cakewalk Software was working and still is working perfectly as is. 
 
I don't like this process at all. There are better ways to do this. 
 
Just saying........ 
 

Hey Toddskins:  It was with msucianscollaboration.com - I just went back over there and signed in and found that my account is still alive!  Surprised.  Unfortunately, the forums look the same as they did there so many years ago.
 
Either way, it's basically a somewhat customized SimpleMachines forum, but you can go to the Collab Search on the left pane and easily see what parts people are looking for with a little icon for each part for each post - go to the post - chat, read what the songwriter is looking for, listen to other submissions, and submit your own "audition" for the piece.  It is DAW agnostic.  People just provide "drumless" (or whatever) tracks in wav or mp3 that you download and then send back a rough mix and/or the parts/stems or whatever they might request.
 
I used to have a good bit of fun, being a disconnected hobby musician.  Not a lot of productivity really, but some fun and a few completed tunes in the end - some actually turned out pretty decent.
 
Hope that helps!

 
Serious_Noize!, what better way do you propose for them to create a customer account for you that has all of your past Cakewalk purchases with the associated Serial Numbers and Activation Keys? 
 
 
 

I suspect we need Noel or Meng to chime in with why the need to sign up all over again. I suspect the SSL Encryption on our accounts Cakewalk has a lot to do with it.
 

mcmd

kevinwal
Yes I signed up as well. I've never collaborated with anyone before and I'm intrigued by the possibilities. TBH the tool set looks pretty minimal to me too, but I'm willing to give them a chance. After all, they bought Cakewalk IP for a reason, right? 

I am also curious about the collab feature.
FYI - I did a quick guitar DI check with the online tool, but the latency was bad. Probably need to spend more time to improve it. It pings from your speaker to you mic.
Also, I listened to some of the Jazz, R n B and Blues tracks and found that many of the songs  would have been better featured in other genre's - I was a bit confused.

The existing user base over there seems to ignore the "genre" classifications. I didn't exactly find it confusing, but it was disappointing. How can you get started collaborating with someone who doesn't know "pop" from hip hop?

meng


Hope that makes sense!

..totally.
 
Meng - thanks for checking in and clarifying again!

I've signed up but not heard anything back about Cakewalk.

Dropping down my e-mail stack - thanks for the reminder!

Meng, I signed up for Bandlab as soon as I heard the news. I used a different email then. I recently went back to Bandlab and changed it to the same one as Cakewalk. I am Starise there too.
 
Two things come to mind-
- The most recent update says there was already an email sent. This means I probably missed it. Will you send a second email to those who might have missed the first one because they received this information later ? 
 
Meng please correct me if I'm wrong: There is no requirement to use Bandlab collaboration in order to use the TDFKAS. This should put at ease those who are concerned about requirements. I will probably use Bandlab, however in what capacity I'm not sure.
This looks like a simple server and name change. Probably a face lift.Maybe a few updates to start out. No one is tied into the matrix here