Hmm. Myself, I'm not precious about any of it. I certainly don't want to carry on making candles after the invention of the lightbulb. LANDR is a long way off replacing the craft of mastering, but I can well imagine such a thing coming to pass.
 
If you want to get really freaked out, I heard a thing on BBC radio 4 a few months back where some researchers are working on automated mixing algorithms. And the results are still fairly lame, but they're also more impressive than is entirely comfortable. I can't remember the details offhand, but they've got a published white paper and some audio examples that are VERY interesting.

azslow3
 
Noel, I am not in position to judge the quality of this "tool". I just do not like the model it is deployed and I find a bit curious that developers of another tool which is close related to the task are promoting that "easy way".

 
Az you are an uber-geek so that automatically disqualifies you from being the target audience for a tool like this :)
For the rest of the mortals that dont have the knowledge to study hundreds of parameters on plugins and the science of mastering this is a great way to create better sounding mixes.

Paul P
That said, I doubt very much I'll make use of LANDR.  I'd rather pratice and learn to do it myself, for the joy of it  (and anything I do won't be going very far anyway).
 

Paul, you may actually learn a great deal by listening to a landr master and then trying to match what you like about it yourself. Or correct what you dislike... Its just another tool in the arsenal available to SONAR users. Use it or abuse it :)

If LANDR is treated like a plug in, is it possible to uninstall it, or not install in the first place? I am away from the desk right now and can't see how CCC delivers it. I've seen their ads on FB more than a few times, but it is not a feature I really have a use for.

It's not a plug-in. It's a cloud-based service where you send them a file and they return it.

Doesn't this do the same thing for the most part.
http://audiodeluxe.com/search/apachesolr_search/Drawmer%20S73%20Intelligent%20Master%20Processor
 
 I sent a mix up and it mastered it low rez mp3. It improved the low and high frequencies a little and gave it a little more punch. I want to demo the Softube Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor and see what the differences are.

Anderton
It's not a plug-in. It's a cloud-based service where you send them a file and they return it.

Thanks, Mr. Anderton, I figured that out, but it is integrated in the export dialogue box, sort of like their desktop app.... (from LANDR website) "Desktop App that lets you LANDR all your tracks at once, work directly from your DAW and back-up your masters to the cloud as you work."

I am sure many people will enjoy exploring this. My question is, is it baked in the cake, or can the frosting be scraped off?

I like the idea of LANDR. I almost always have songs to be released into the wild mastered for me, as I don't trust either my ears or my room.
LANDR is just another tool that allows part time studio nerds like me, create something approaching a good result. It's one of the great things about Sonar, and has been since the days of Pro Audio 9, which was when I began using DAWs.
I do hope it last longer than Gobbler though. That's one of the down sides of giving off part of your program to an outside process.

Anderton
It's not a plug-in. It's a cloud-based service where you send them a file and they return it.

It may not be  a plugin in the conventional sense,  but I think I've found an installation problem.
 
Seems to work ok from the export audio dialog, but from the Utilities > LANDR Online Mastering, I get this:
 
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SONAR Platinum
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Tool not found: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\LANDR Audio\LANDR\Landr.exe'
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OK   
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So, why is the download file so much larger than the last one? This update is 503MB and the last update was 425MB.
 
Just wondering...because of my slow internet I guess.