I will (probably) not purchase X3

Jan - Gigastudio.  I invested a lot of money in Gigastudio and Tascam ran it in the ground.  I had GS3 and a lot of 3rd party libraries.  I never did buy GS4 when it came out, but was planning to eventually.  GS4 was only on the shelves a couple of months when Tascam announced it was a dead product.
 
So in order to update my library, I had to invest in Komplete and port as much of GS over to Komplete as I could.  not everything transferred and some of the stuff that did still wasn't correct (i.e. keyswitching on a lot of instruments didn't work any more).
 
I could have just continued to use GS as is, but it had problems which needed to be fixed anyway, which I had hoped that GS4 would have solved.  part of the problem, however, was that the key gen needed to install it was flakey.  it required an answer / call to the server for installation and I was afraid that the support for that would eventually go away.
 
TASCAM had "acquired" GS from another company, can't remember the name right now.  they got rid of that company's management and most of the programmers then they designed GS2 & 3 themselves.  running the company into the ground by the time GS4 was released.
 
writing on the wall...

Cactus Music
 
Glad to hear your doing lots of playing, I am too these days. Managed a good live recording of us on my TASCAM DR 40 ,, :)   Just had to say it .. 

What if you were joined by a fox?  What if they were served in a box?

Beagle,
 
Technically X3 is still a Pre-Tascam product since the deal is not final and you can rest assured Gibson/Tascam had zero to do with X3's development.
 
FWIW, I may not buy into X3 right away unless there are some exceptional reasons to do so.

Beags
 

so, I guess Roland just read a book on flipping Real Estate and then ... ?

Old55It will all depend on Gibson's plans for Cakewalk.  For what it's worth, I won't buy any software that has a dongle.  So, it they change that--they'll lose me. 

Should all this actually happen it will be quite interesting to see what Gibson's plans truly are.
I will also add (for what little it's worth) that if any dongle requirement becomes the their new approach X2 will be the last of my dollars going to Cakewalk.
I (along with many here) have been with Cakewalk since '93 or so and love the software/company but the dongle would certainly end the loyalty for me.
I'd guess X2 will suffice until I go below the dirt anyway. :)
 
Carry on....
 

daryl1968
Beags
 

LOL Daryk!
 
I did, I literally laughed out loud!  does anybody really do that any more or do they just type that they do???

But wait!  There's more!  If you order now, we'll throw in a fish scaler, a 25 piece knife set, new kitchen cabinets, and improved notation!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(I'm sorry, your Honor.  I did not mean to incite a riot by mentioning "notation".)
 
(...or did I?)

Starise
what else matters at the end of the day?

Uhhhhh...................
BECAN?

Rain
Haven't you read? Fender bought becan....

.....and now they're giving Gibson a run for their money with their new product......Laxcam.

Beagle
Jan - Gigastudio.  I invested a lot of money in Gigastudio and Tascam ran it in the ground.  I had GS3 and a lot of 3rd party libraries.  I never did buy GS4 when it came out, but was planning to eventually.  GS4 was only on the shelves a couple of months when Tascam announced it was a dead product.
 
So in order to update my library, I had to invest in Komplete and port as much of GS over to Komplete as I could.  not everything transferred and some of the stuff that did still wasn't correct (i.e. keyswitching on a lot of instruments didn't work any more).
 
I could have just continued to use GS as is, but it had problems which needed to be fixed anyway, which I had hoped that GS4 would have solved.  part of the problem, however, was that the key gen needed to install it was flakey.  it required an answer / call to the server for installation and I was afraid that the support for that would eventually go away.
 
TASCAM had "acquired" GS from another company, can't remember the name right now.  they got rid of that company's management and most of the programmers then they designed GS2 & 3 themselves.  running the company into the ground by the time GS4 was released.
 
writing on the wall...

GS was a disaster waiting to happen when Tascam bought it and then they mishandled it badly.
 
All of the crazy, low level stuff that were necessary to make GS work at all became completely unnecessary with faster computers, which essentially meant that a total rewrite was necessary.
 
What Tascam missed was that when competition arrived what people really cared about were the sample libraries. NI actively recruited content partners and included a much larger real sample library with Kontakt while GS always included mostly demo content with everything at unreasonable prices. 
 
The magic of GS was that it worked at all in the days of Pentium3 computers running Win98. The GS name was all Tascam really had once competition arrived and a name won't get you far in a rapidly changing competitive SW environment. Even though Tascam completely booted it, it would have been hard for GS to survive all of the new competition they faced under any circumstances.
 
 
But I don't get the impression that Tascam will be running Cakewalk anyway.
 
And it's not clear what Gibson intends. It could be another GS-style disaster or another lackluster version of Roland/CW or Sony/SonicFoundry. Or it could be Apple/emagic too - where Apple really wanted something in Logic (but only the Mac version of course), which they both cannibalized (Garageband) but also actively continued to support and develop (while dropping everything else emagic did).
 
The big question is whether Gibson wants to continue CW as it is, focus on only one piece and slowly or rapidly kill everything else, or cannibalize things in some way, maybe the Les Paul Sonar - the first guitar with a built in DAW (or DAW integration) - I wouldn't put this kind of thing past Gibson, given their largely unsuccessful attempts to create high tech guitars like the Darkfire: 
 
http://www2.gibson.com/Pr...son-USA/Dark-Fire.aspx

Rain
Haven't you read? Fender bought becan....

NOOOOO!!! SAY IT AIN'T SOOOOO!!!!