bapu

Larry Jones
PS: What's "IBTL?"

In before the lock.

Yikes. I didn't think I was saying anything that incendiary. Well, at least it wasn't locked, even it it was sent to the basement.

Soundwise
As for drama - just stay away from trolls and forum monkeys and you'll be fine.

Ouch, that hurts .......and HERE I thought our music was intended to be less dramatic. 

IMHO, and only IMHO, and I really *hate* to say or think this, but...
Craig's departure is one of the death by a thousand cuts that Cakewalk seems to be going through recently.
It's been going on for awhile, at least since Greg Hendershott sold out.  There's been costly mistake after mistake being made, and I think it's been taking it's toll.  
 
The DAW marketplace is crowded as ever, and I've always thought there's just too many out there to have them all continue at the level they are now.  I was hoping for the best with the Gibson purchase, but given their financial issues, I don't think it looks good.  DAW development looks to be expensive, and you either need sheer marketplace dominance (ProTools, Ableton, FL Studio), Big hardware companies (Logic Pro, Studio One, Cubase) or rich-pocketed developers (Reaper) to be successful.   To be fair, I think Reason and Bitwig Studio are also in a similar situation as well.
I think the next year or two are critical.  I don't see the marketplace being kind to music instrument/software/hardware companies in that time-frame, I think the economy will be slowing down, and music hardware/software are always discretionary purchases.  Even if whatever new products Alex has in the pipeline are successful, and Cakewalk is profitable, then that makes them a candidate for being sold.  If Cakewalk is not profitable, then it's still a good possibility that it gets sold, either thought a restructuring or to raise cash.  Then, the bigger question is who would buy it?  Native Instruments?  Microsoft?  Magix? Possibly even Izotope?  Who else? Lots of cons and a few pro's there for those possible players.
 
That's how I see it.  I'm not trying to be negative, just realistic.  However, for now, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, making music with it.

paulo

bapu
I met Craig at NAMM. He is/was the same person on this forum as IRL.

Did you enjoy the rest of the show?

Why yes I did, thankee. That was first year I met Jan (Old55) at person for the show. I believe that was year X1 came out.

Oh... and I'm nutz deep in my own production quagmires at the moe and I'm not sure how I could be of any use to you BUT... if I can be you know how to use the PM button.
 
Ya?
 
Okay.
 
Now if you'll excuse me I need to go be stoopid somewhere else.
 
;-)
 

There are lots of musicians in music industry companies, but few have the degree of proficiency that Noel has on jazz guitar. 

Anderton
Just to clarify - I don't have to develop SONAR so I get to use it exclusively in real-world projects, with the clock running, almost every day including weekends. I don't see any way that developers could just take time off from developing and do nothing but projects that used the software. Think about it...if they did, there would be no monthly updates  
 
Also, in another one of these threads in the software section, it was stated that my primary function at Gibson was Cakewalk. That is not at all true. I fulfilled many tasks at Gibson: 
 

• Lots of videos for KRK, including the marquee one on the V-Series speakers.
• Ad copy for KRK and Cerwin-Vega, as well as Cerwin-Vega videos for the P-series speakers.
• Representing Gibson on various industry executive boards.
• Was heavily involved in four mergers and acquisitions, including Cakewalk.
• The sample library that's being shipped with 2017.10...I put together that deal.
• Assisted Henry in some negotiations with the Chinese government re manufacturing facilities.
• Helped bring Harmony Central back from the dead after GC almost killed it. It's grown 29% over last year, the newsletter has gone from 24,000 to 91,000 opt-in subscribers, and the site manages over $40K of digital advertising.
• I developed the transient suppressor circuit for the Les Paul Standard, and the switchable wiring in the control cavity was my idea.
• I assigned two patents to Gibson, one with telecommunications applications.
• Wrote press releases, and a lot of content about the guitars.
• Did owner's manuals for the automatic tuning.
• Provided the sales people with key selling points for various products.
• Put together the slide shows that looped in the background at trade shows.

 
That's the tip of the iceberg, but you get the idea. I also worked on licensing and ran Entertainment Relations for six months. 

So basically you can think of what I did as being the corporate equivalent of a utility infielder. I was stretched pretty thin. Gibson wants to get a full-time infield, and I can't blame them. which would make me more or less superfluous.

There are no hard feelings, I'm on the top of the list of people they'd like to re-hire someday in a different capacity, and there's already talk of my doing some consulting.

What does a guy have to do to stay hired? If the above is not enough what is?