I started on the Atari ST with Dr.T's KCS. Oops! Wait, that was before Cakewalk. :D I actually don't remember my first Cakewalk version. Yikes! Am I really that old? :)
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My first ever Cakewalk software came on an Aerosmith CD that had some version of Cakewalk software included for you to install on your pc (win 98 IIRC) so that you could "remix" it..  Can't remember which one it was and no idea what became of it. I suspect that somebody "borrowed"it at some point. Obviously it was pretty limited in terms of what you could actually do, but that was the first time I ever installed Cakewalk software onto a pc.
 

Holy moly, there's some serious history here!!!! Really cool to read about.

I only started maybe in 2010 or '11 on Music Creator (2003?) which I initially only bought because it was pretty cheap came with a USB/MIDI cable that I needed for another notation software.


Little did I know I was in it for the long haul.


From there I moved up to X2 which was to be honest, pretty terrible in terms of stability (as we all know) - VERY frequent crashes. Sometime down the road came X3 producer which I'm using today.

Haven't made the full switch to CW by BandLab, but I've got it installed and have opened the software once.

I started on PA4 and purchased all versions except SONAR2.
 

I started with Voyetra for DOS in '92, then later that year upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Cakewalk 1.0 for Windows. One 3.5 inch floppy I think. It's probably still sitting in a drawer somewhere.

I think it was 96, and PA5. 

I started in the late 90's with Cakewalk Home Studio 6. Progressed only as far as Sonar 8.5, then went to Reaper for awhile when they put in a staff view. Came back to 8.5 when the bad news hit; I wanted to make sure I still had a good working version of sonar going forward, in case worst case scenario of no buyer of Cakewalk. Then of course Bandlab appears out of nowhere to save the day. Happily using the second updated version. Waiting for a better Assistant App to upgrade again.

I'm currently looking at a Cakewalk 4.OE floppy disc, it sits on my fireplace mantle (with many other relics)
The copyright says Greg Hendershott, 1987 - 90
Running on a 286 PC, Cakewalk drove my Tascam 688 Midistudio, an 8 track cassette player that could sync up to the PC . . . using a sync track . . . enabling me to record 7 tracks if audio, and sync it with an Opcode midi interface, which drove a few hardware synthesizers. So high tech for the 90's.
Crude by today's standards . . . but this thread got me thinking just how far audio recording technology has come.

Back in the day , when it was considered to be a 2 man operation to do a proper midi sequence , I had the good fortune of getting my start with Cakewalk ...
I used to collab w a fella named Honest Abe L...AKA High Fives . High Fives Abe & I  used to walk a few miles home  from school every day barefoot . Once home we promptly did all our Midi homework using the same shovel while sharing a piece of coal
Not sorry bout the sarcasm ..
I keep wondering when I'm gonna hear this same exact story from someone else here on this or any other music forum
 
After using tape for audio recording and hardware sequencers for midi work  I went w a self contained HD digital recorder . I liked the simplicity of recording VIA that route but the editing was tedious .
 
My true start w Cakewalk ...HS 2 , SONAR 5 SE , P5 V2.5 , SONAR 6 PE ....stayed there for years then I went w
X3PE , SONAR Plat Lifetime , & Cakewalk by Bandlab ..
 
for the record Cakewalk by Bandlab seems to be running the best
I have it on my X3 / Splat machines ....
 
all the best
 
Kenny

kennywtelejazz
Back in the day , when it was considered to be a 2 man operation to do a proper midi sequence , I had the good fortune of getting my start with Cakewalk ...
I used to collab w a fella named Honest Abe L...AKA High Fives . High Fives Abe & I  used to walk a few miles home  from school every day barefoot . Once home we promptly did all our Midi homework using the same shovel while sharing a piece of coal
Not sorry bout the sarcasm ..
I keep wondering when I'm gonna hear this same exact story from someone else here on this or any other music forum
 
After using tape for audio recording and hardware sequencers for midi work  I went w a self contained HD digital recorder . I liked the simplicity of recording VIA that route but the editing was tedious .
 
My true start w Cakewalk ...HS 2 , SONAR 5 SE , P5 V2.5 , SONAR 6 PE ....stayed there for years then I went w
X3PE , SONAR Plat Lifetime , & Cakewalk by Bandlab ..
 
for the record Cakewalk by Bandlab seems to be running the best
I have it on my X3 / Splat machines ....
 
all the best
 
Kenny

Too bad, I was enjoying your little story until you noted it was merely sarcasm.