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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 10:47 AM
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yep - good article! I've read it before. it's outdated, now, tho. Greg is no longer with the company!
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fwrend
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 12:25 AM
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Yeah, I know but got to thinking about my first encounter with the product. My wife and I made a album (cassette) in 1991 and my friend and producer sequenced a couple of covers with this new sequencer software - wow!
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 12:29 AM
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still have the cassette? and something to play it on? 
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fwrend
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 1:51 PM
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Haha indeed I do although we gave more away than we sold. If I get time I'll try to post some clips of the sequenced ones.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 1:54 PM
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I believe he has remained to help on the board of directors.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 3:06 PM
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According to his Blog on Google, he'll remain available for consultation for a while - which isn't uncommon. But he has retired from Cakewalk.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 3:19 PM
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My Cakewalk history starts with ProAudio 4 (in 1900 according to my Cakewalk Store account) and is still going strong thru X1 and will continue on into X2.
TBH, I did not really start in earnest until SONAR 6/7 (and for some reason I skipped SONAR 2) as I never had the computing power or interface worthy of replacing my Tascam 80-8 or my ADATS. At SOANR 6 I was ready to go totally ITB.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 4:14 PM
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Other than developing and teaching a very basic sequencing course at a Jr College, I didn't get into the audio side until Sonar XL.
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Rain
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 4:31 PM
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Where it all started for me... 
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 4:33 PM
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I played around with Cakewalk Gold when it came with a soundblaster soundcard, but never did anything serious until Sonar 4. and I've skipped a few versions. I didn't own 5 or 7 but I have X1 Expanded and all of the bells and whistles now.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 5:02 PM
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It was Guitar Tracks 2 for me.
I still think it's a great piece of software.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 5:16 PM
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When I started using Cakewalk (v. 1.0), Greg was still fulfilling orders in his living room and answering the phone himself. How times change. Orders are now fulfilled by enslaved children manacled to their workstations in Central America, Greg's on a fishing boat in the Caribbean and nobody answers the phone.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 6:30 PM
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@Rain... That looks cool. What is and where buy? WHAR BUY?! :-p
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 6:37 PM
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I found a 5 1/4 floppy with 12 tones cakewalk DOS on it .. but have no way to access it.. so there..
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 6:37 PM
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Early 1999 I think.
Guitar Studio 1. My father-in-law had to order it for me, online I presume. Didn't have internet or a credit card back then and we lived hours away from any store susceptible to even cary music software like that.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 6:41 PM
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I had a radio shack PC and used an MPU 401 and a portman PC parallel midi interface with the DOS 12 tones program.Had some early multi channel modules, with a Korg Sqd sequencer synced up.. Ahh those were the daze....
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 6:59 PM
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I started with Pro Audio 9. I was heavy in to it. It wasn't on my PC so when I lost contact with my bud who had it, I lost contact with Sonar until we got back together some years later and he was on Sonar 4 at that point.
Some of the stuff we did with PA9 was very impressive. He had an AWE Gold card with the Sound Font daughter board add-on card IIRC. It was quite an impressive setup, especially when playing games. IRQ=7, DMA=1, Port=330. wow! now there's a flashback for you! :) He was really in to making his own soundfonts but I could never understand how it all went together.
I really liked working with someone who had the same musical ideas as I did and both of us knowing the software made it a lot of fun.
I have the cash to get my own gear and set up a small studio in my house until around Sonar 8PE. I've upgraded every time since then.
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Rain
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 7:31 PM
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Ah, Pro Audio 9 - darn fine piece of software. :)
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 30, 12 9:57 PM
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bitflipper
When I started using Cakewalk (v. 1.0), Greg was still fulfilling orders in his living room and answering the phone himself. How times change. Orders are now fulfilled by enslaved children manacled to their workstations in Central America, Greg's on a fishing boat in the Caribbean and nobody answers the phone.
Yep! Same here. Got to talk with Greg on the phone to work out some bugs. (Greg-a-sis 1:1 "In the beginning there were the Bakers..." )
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 31, 12 4:17 AM
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I started with pro audio 9, from there I went to Sonar 2 studio version, then Sonar 3 studio version, then sonar 3 producer version, then Sonar 5 producer, then Sonar 7 producer, then Sonar 8 producer, Then Sonar 8.5 producer, Then Sonar X1 producer, then expanded.
And now I will go to Sonar X2. also bought the full version of rapture and true pianos.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 31, 12 6:02 AM
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I'm an absolute newbie compared to some of you.
6PE was my first ever foray into the world of the DAW back in 2007.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
August 31, 12 7:47 AM
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My entrance was Cakewalk Apprentice, very early 90's, that came with some soundcard. Then I bought Pro Audio (4, I think) somewhere in the mid 90's. I did not have the PC-power to run it efficiently, though, and I had to settle with workarounds without end. It wasn't untill around 2004 that I had a computer proper enough to run SONAR 4 reasonably well. Since then I've hardly had time to use it at all :o(
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
September 01, 12 9:05 PM
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Cakewalk 3 here. Was that the one featuring sound globs? It was purple and black and dos when I started.
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Re:Do you know your Cakewalk history?
September 01, 12 9:43 PM
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The original DOS Cakewalk reminds me very much of the tracker program I started off with in the early 90's on my Amiga - OctaMED! 8 channels of very grungy 8-bit samples, triggering samples and volume levels with numbers...chopping beats up by dividing the number of bytes by 8 and entering the start and finish bytes for each segment....old skool! In some ways I enjoyed myself more back then than I do now.
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