"Upgrading from Sonar Professional, I have no complaints whatsoever. CbB detected all the tools from previous Cakewalk installs plus I got some extras and I'm happy with things as they are."


I too would be upgrading from Professional. Is there anything in the separate content download that I wouldn't already have in my current installation or should I skip it? Sorry, screwed up the quote somehow but this was RT DeBro.

Thank you!

BitBridge is in CbB.

Luckily I have many friends and clients musicians. I had no difficulty getting access to almost all the daws in the industry, and I have been studying each one of them little by little in recent years because my clients have different Daws and also out of curiosity since I could get access.

I have access to Bitwig Studio 2.3, Mixcraft Acustica, Studio One, Cubase 9.5, Ableton Live 10, FL Studio, Reaper, Protools, Logic

If there is something Sonar does not have, it's an inefficient interface. ProChannel is one of the most useful and efficient tools for producers who use little CPU. FL for example has a very confusing interface for new users, it is not an intuitive interface, but made its reputation not because it is an intuitive Daw but because it was in the hands of the right people. Several Beatmakers love the FL because it has a system of loops facilitated but for there, is not something that you install and leave using in 5 minutes. If one is mistaken, one thinks that FL is a Daw for musicians who do not know how to play.

I live in Brazil, and Daw is making great success is Live. Because again it is in the hands of people who work with electronic music and I know many young people who want to be DJ. I believe it's all marketing issues and putting in the hands of promising musicians who have become very relevant with time. In Live I see that there are a number of people that rely heavily on the use of loops to use on the tracks was something that Ableton actually offered in Lite and made its users get used to it. So I found it quite interesting how the loops are organized by Bandlab, reminded me a bit about the Magix Music Maker scheme.

The Sonar is ready to go, now has a business model that competitors will really care about, Reaper makes great fame with its free template. Promoted to be a great Daw.

With so much time analyzing and observing the Daws, I saw that the key point is who is using Daw and makes inspire new musicians. FL as he said he was successful with the Beatmakers. Live success with electronic music and its model of Ableton Live Lite that had in all possible hardware, not counting compatible hardware and huge packages of loops to facilitate, midis drivers made for Live.

On the other hand, Protools is out there today, because Avid is very aggressive with marketing. Because Protools has a quantum of annoying bugs, nor by far is the best for midi, I have seen many users suffering from the transition to AAX. Putting Daw in the hands of musicians, promising artists is something that Cakewalk and Bandlab need to act soon enough. This Daw is now free. Need a MAC version of this form too.

dnelson1971
Awesome. I see several people complaining that their 32 bit vst's are missing. I'm guessing they are just not setup to scan the appropriate folder paths then.

Yes, a scan path issue. CbB is a new product/upgrade not an update. The install process does have an option to get some settings from the old product but scan path is not one of them. It is a good idea to review all the preference settings.

Installed without problems. Feel so relieved, I have maybe 2000 songs made by Cakewalk/Sonar (used it since 1997) and to have them more secured is such a relief. I already got Studio One, but transferring the projects is slow and works unlogical. In theory its easy and you can just drop the files, but for some reason some clips/tracks just fails to transfer and it can take a long time. But this new situation helps with the pressure to have the projects secured and I am looking forward what is about to happen in future with Cakewalk.

Reality
Installed without problems. Feel so relieved, I have maybe 2000 songs made by Cakewalk/Sonar (used it since 1997) and to have them more secured is such a relief.

holy hell, you are one prolific dude!  2000 songs in 20 years ?  that is one song every 3-4 days. You make me feel totally worthless. 

There are no plans to release a 32bit version of CbB.
The date is a placeholder needed to get the early release out the door. It will be removed soon.

Had just started research to build a new computer for my new (in construction) recording/mixing studio when I learned Gibson was dropping Sonar. Devastated, so I've kind of been on hold... but now that Bandlab has taken the reigns I'm going forward with the project including the new computer build. I purchased two SSD drives because I wanted to seperate the core software from the vst files and plugins etc. I've read through the entire thread and couldn't find anyone addressing my exact question directly. It sounds like the best way to do this now is to download Sonar Platinum (I purchased life time subscription) from Command Center and all the plug-in's that came bundled with it, and my NI Komplete 11 stuff to my new computer and get it all configured, then download the new Cakewalk from Band lab and reconfigure if needed. Does this sound about right!

Toddskins

mkerl
 
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. [William Shakespeare]
 
cheers 

And Shakespeare got it from his Bible.


Romans 14:14  I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean. 
 
Cheers!

Ok,  that's new to me . . . . but there have always been rumors about plagiarization 
 
Cheers 

dprvulov
Can I still install and activate my legacy Sonar Professional?

Yes. It's a good idea to do so, because you'll pick up a few plugins and instruments (e.g. Lounge Lizard, TruePianos) that aren't included in CbB. I used CCC just last week to install SPlat on a laptop.
 
However, once you've installed SONAR there's no need to actually use it because CbB is essentially SONAR Platinum. You'll be gaining several Platinum features that weren't in Professional (e.g. Vocal Sync, PC76, console emulator, Breverb).

Please! Please! I can not get Cakewalk out of demo mode ... I uninstalled antivirus and disabled the Windows firewall ... I'm logged in to the BandLab Wizard ... Nothing solves ... I lost count of the number of times I installed / uninstalled software ... Any solution to this?

How long should it take to download/install? It said it was a self extracting file so I started downloading it before I went to run an errand about 2 hours ago. I've been home about half an hour and it still says installing, without an active status bar. 

Okay... I too hung on "Installing" on the first try, but after a reboot, I was able to find the downloaded install and run it with no issues. It found everything except my USB audio codec. I run a Yamaha MW10 as my input and output, and it's not picking that up. I can playback through the internal sound card, but I cannot record. I am wondering what I need to do for Cakewalk by Bandlab to recognize my USB device. Any thoughts??? Splat still functions, so I'll be using it until I can iron out this latest wrinkle.
 
I found where to enable the USB audio codec this afternoon, so I'm in pretty good shape now.  

Many thanks for the revival!  
 
Looking forward to more good times in Cakewalk by Bandlab.  
 
Cheers!