Cakewalk employees collaborate on a remix

Thought it would be nice to share a story of Cakewalk employees using SONAR X2 to create a remix. As you may know, one of the cool things about Cakewalk is that many of its' employees are also musicians. In testing SONAR X2a, we used a track created by Cakewalk's Dan Kaplan for testing. Cakewalk QA Engineer Lance Riley ended up doing a remix of his song and it came out so well that we decided to share the remix techniques with our customers. We hope this story will give you some ideas for doing your own remixes. The CA-2A T-Type Leveling Amplifier is featured prominently on vocals. And of course, we used Z3TA+ 2 on this track which just goes to show how truly versatile this synth is for all types of music. Enjoy!  Read the blog 

[<font]I like the song a lot. I love the vocals on it. To me it seems the bass, bass drum and vocals dominate the mix. You can hear everything else but at times are stepped on by the forementioned.

Well, that is certainly an impressive bit of showcase work. I do so love Z3ta. Vocals are spacial and atmospheric. Right on boys and girls.

How many listened to the original and compared it to the 'remix"? 

To my ears, both mixes have strengths and weaknesses. 

The original is much clearer but is lacking a nice bottom. It has a more present middle. 

I like the vocals in the remix but the bottom is much to heavy.

Both mixes need some work to get them "there".... IMHO

I appreciate the entire effort. From writing the song. To the Write up about the Remix. Displaying Dans original prominently allowing us to see how he is marketing his work.(important to me)

I couldn't/Wouldn't suggest changing a thing 

There is a time, when you have to say the best way to spend your time is to make another one.

Do you guys ever do remix contests?

Peace young brothers
May you all rock stars be.

I like it but it sounds too much like the song BROKEN By the Band called LIFEHOUSE .

A PROJECT 5 USER - James

This is awesome! The concept and how this was done is mind blowing. There is no other words that I can say other than awesome, awesome. In addition, I must hurry and upgrade to Sonar- I thought I had it all in Music Creator 5 and 6, but I see I am missing out.

Happy to have discovered the Cakewalk World !!

Firstly, I'll say I really like this song and love what you've done with it, very classy.
My first impression was, that the elements of the song didn't quite glue together, like every one wasn't playing in the same room at the same time (and of course they weren't). This is not necessarily a criticism as I find lots of songs, especially those created in a studio where songs are layered and dubbed as a matter of course, have "that" sound to them. It's a real skill to take multiple separate recordings and mix them into one homogenous track. I am so used to recording in a studios where the basis of the track is recorded at the same time, and only a few tracks are dubbed at a later stage.Having said that, I do believe though, that there are, not a few, mixers that have mastered the art of mixing a track so that it sounds like everyone is right there in the room with you playing together.
My second impression was, that feeling almost disappeared as the groove really established itself at 1.22. Maybe this was a deliberate decision and I have no problem with that, like I said, it's just an impression.
Maybe the tracks are so distinct and so well mixed, that the impression of separateness between the parts is just a testimony of your skill.
Like I said, I do love what you ended up with, and it's a real classy mix.
It's great to hear music created by the same people that create the software. I think the Cakewalk team are at the top of their game, and have been for some time.