Thanks, Meng. You're a class act.

Much Appreciated, thank you for the update. 

Meng, thank you for this . . . great information "from the horse's mouth"

Thank you, Meng! 

Thanks for the update, Meng. I'm glad to hear that takeup has been good just through word of mouth. I can put my curiosity to bed now 

meng
The forum migration is taking longer than expected but it's nearly there.

 
Dances around the room....
 
"Nearly there, it's nearly there, he says the new Cakewalk forum is nearly, nearly therrrrrrrre!"

Anderton
Four months isn't really that long. When I've consulted to software companies, it's sometimes about stops on the roadmap that are 2 or 3 years in the future. 
 
Frankly, I'm pleasantly surprised that Noel has kept the monthly updates coming. That's impressive.

What this man said, all of it. I've worked at some of the biggest of the big.
 
I don't know when the acquisition actually occurred, but that was a damn short period of time between the Gibson announcement and the BandLab one. Making an acquisition of that magnitude and bringing the team into the company's ecosystem used to take us a lot longer than that before they could even get a mockup to show at an all-hands meeting. Just an artwork change.
 
They may have just bypassed all the rigmarole of integrating the code base into the company's existing dev environment, all that stuff, and left it in place, as-is. It wouldn't surprise me if the deal included the actual hardware that the devs use to create the builds on. Why not if it works.
 
Looking at Cakewalk as a "black box," from what I d/l'd back in April I can tell that they've prioritized stability and thrown in a few of what look like easy-to-implement convenience features, which is GREAT. By which I mean, it's what I would do.
 
In my experience, developers are relieved to have the opportunity to get rid of stability bugs. They don't like them any more than we do, but company execs believe that it's flashy features that sell licenses, not bug fixes. Which is why being freed from having to sell licenses is such a GOOD thing for Cakewalk! The Chord Track (or whatever) can wait to be included until it actually works, rather than being tied to the date of the Winter NAMM Show.

meng
 
There is still a strong amount of traffic and people who use it as a daily resource for information so we can't jeopardise that with a half-baked transition.
 

This is what I suspected from the beginning as a main factor for taking some time to do this correctly.
Hopefully the new site can look similar to this one with simple improvements, not a facelift.
I can almost guarantee everyone here will tell you they are perfectly happy with the flow and structure of this website the way it is, they are simply not happy with the little quirks that come along with it (search functions not working, comments disappearing,exc)
 
My hope is that this new site remains similar to the way this one already is with only added features and fixes.
Kind of like what your doing to CbB.

chuckebaby
My hope is that this new site remains similar to the way this one already is with only added features and fixes.
Kind of like what your doing to CbB.

^This.
 
Please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and turn the new forum into an unstructured Facebook wannabe look-alike. A forum that allows threads like this is something I personally would never come back to.
 

Thanks for the clarification Meng appreciated here.