Things Be Crazy Upstairs

I just can't believe some of the stuff I'm seeing up there. Everyone has an idea about saving the company and writing petitions. A bunch of junior Rockefeller's.
I think it's great that a few have stepped up to provide an online hangout. How long until that turns into a competition? Where will the REAL fanboys hang and where will you have to go for the smart folks? I wish that they could take out the trash in the Sonar forum so that people could ask actual product questions and get some help. There may be further contact via the forums but it's entirely possible that we will be told nothing. 
I don't use social media, but I'm willing to bet that that could yield more info than the forums. I think there's big legal issues about intellectual property and things like all of our personal information, and can it be sold. This is something that's hurting people and a lot of lawyers are making money.  This is seriously evil sh*t.
If you hosts are out there, start to clear out the trash from the after party. Try and condense the anarchists with the conspiracy theorists and make a lane for those that might want to discuss a program issue. 

I wonder if any of the people wanting to 'take over' Cakewalk, have any idea what's involved in running a company.

just move everything into the Coffee House... We can handle it...

SteveStrummerUK
 
Speculation seems rife and theories abound.
 
But nobody really knows apart from the powers that be at Gibwalk.
 
The vast majority of views seem to fall into the Cakewalk=Saints/Gibson=Evil category.
 
But we won't know that for sure until the dust has settled and those that really know are allowed to spill the beans.
 
For all we know, Cakewalk may have been dead in the water when Roland decided to let them go, and Gibson may have effectively bought us a few years of continued support?
 
 

Yes, wise words Steven.

ampfixer
I find it funny that many of the "long time" customers have less than a dozen posts under their belts while claiming to have been with the company since the DOS days. I guess all the pirates are nervous that their knowledge base may be drying up. 

Haha! Maybe

ampfixer
I find it funny that many of the "long time" customers have less than a dozen posts under their belts while claiming to have been with the company since the DOS days. I guess all the pirates are nervous that their knowledge base may be drying up. 

Arrr!
 
(BTW - I actually helped Greg debug Cakewalk v1.0 30 years ago, then got every update, plus all the add-on stuff, right up until the Credit Crunch wiped me out leaving me at SONAR Producer v4.  Then Cakewalk dies and, at the finish line, I get Platinum - go figure!)

craigb
I actually helped Greg debug Cakewalk v1.0 30 years ago

In which case, I salute you, Craig B
 
I remember where I was working at the time I got my hands on Cakewalk. So it was somewhere around 1993 ~ 1994, and it was the version that worked on Windows 3. It came bundled with one of the more expensive Sound Blaster cards. I can't remember the one... Too long ago, but I do remember that the SB card came with a daughter board which utilised a chip by E-mu systems...
 
I was pretty damn pleased with it to be honest... I had been using Cubasis Lite before that and it was bloomin' awful, especially for editing MIDI once recorded. So Cakewalk was a breath of fresh air. I used that program for quite a while...

craigb
 
Remember that screaming man icon that was the Panic Button you hit when a MIDI note got stuck on?
 

Oh yes haha
 

paulo

Karyn
I'm trying to consolidate the "special cross grade offer" threads which will clear the forum a little, but I'm even get grief for doing that....
 
Can't win.

Let it go mate. Let it go 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You fought a brave battle, but the odds were overwhelming.
 
We have produced a generation who believe all of life's problems can be solved through social media.

SteveStrummerUK
For all we know, Cakewalk may have been dead in the water when Roland decided to let them go, and Gibson may have effectively bought us a few years of continued support?

5 years of support and development TBE. If Gibson hadn't bought it all this would have happened 5 years ago and we'd still be in X2 or 3 today.