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  • Will we finally see a Mac version of Cakewalk?
2018/06/07 15:41:01
a13xhp
With the current direction of Bandlanb based on reaching to new customers by giving the full DAW for free I think that a Mac version it's more possible tan ever. What do you think? I also hope to see new learning material and updated resources for the product.
2018/06/07 15:55:11
AT
Cake had it.  Why didn't you get it then?  It didn't work very well and I'm sure it lost plenty of programming time for Cakewalk/Gibson ...  hey, maybe that is part of the reason they went bust.
 
But now that you are not being charged for using CbB, there should be plenty of money to fix the Mac App. 
 
;-)
2018/06/07 16:36:34
azslow3
AT
Cake had it.  Why didn't you get it then?  It didn't work very well and I'm sure it lost plenty of programming time for Cakewalk/Gibson ...  hey, maybe that is part of the reason they went bust.

They was not investing into it. The final words was clear - Codewavers have tried to implement missing calls, the result was somehow working. The same you can get running Sonar/CbB in Wine under Linux, except the protection, it works.
But that is not native way to run things and Sonar/CbB is using relatively "modern" MS technologies. So cross-platform running is far from perfect and cross-compiling is not feasible. If you want to see how both ways can work in practice, in case "modern" MS technologies are not involved, check REAPER. It works fine under Wine and could be cross-compiled with Cockos own Windows API wrapper (btw open source), under OS X (official) and Linux (permanent beta).
 
@OP: I guess you have never tried to port a history heavy application which use threads, tight integration with hardware and OS specific libraries from one platform to another. Technically, they will have to completely rewrite the whole program.
 
But for what? "A Mac" is just single manufacturer PC with a custom OS. It is  a wonder they have survived so far, mostly they can say "thanks" for rather bad drivers and using 1-2 questionably components in other PCs. But for how long that can continue? They was keeping iPhone as "you have it or you have something worse" for long, but that time is already over (after Samsung/LG/HTC, followed by Huawei, have managed to more or less optimize the software for the hardware). You can have full flavor PC in form of a tablet, which effectively evaporate iPad as "the only good one" in that segment.
If DELL (IBM/Lenovo) can manage to write a bit more stable drivers and can put $0.05 more expensive cooler on correct place inside notebooks... someone will ask "are you still using that outdated platform with an apple logo? why???"
 
 
 
2018/06/07 16:41:28
pwalpwal
porting stuff after developing it for a different platform is always a nightmare and never gives the hoped-for results
2018/06/07 17:06:03
a13xhp
I can understand... I had no idea of this kind of technical difficulties.
2018/06/07 17:27:05
dubdisciple
a13xhp
With the current direction of Bandlanb based on reaching to new customers by giving the full DAW for free I think that a Mac version it's more possible tan ever. What do you think? I also hope to see new learning material and updated resources for the product.


Not saying never, but I don't see it happening any time soon.  One of the reasons Bandlab can offer Cakewalk for free is because they are inheriting an already developed, mature product.  The attempts at making a Mac version was floundering at best.  If I'm not mistaken, it had been abandoned under Gibson.  I c an't imagine code based on several generations of windows specific functionality will port well without some deep, ground-up programming.  
 
I think they need to figure out a way to successfully make Cakewalk a top DAW choice before expanding. FL took their time porting to Mac because they already had a product envied by Mac users. Every Mac hip-hop producer I know has a cheap pc they use strictly for FL. 
2018/06/07 18:08:32
eikelbijter
I certainly hope not!
2018/06/07 21:05:51
abacab
It would require an entire re-write.  Not going to happen with a DAW being given away for free. The development cost would be immense. And even if they sold it to Mac users they would be competing with Logic, which is nearly being given away by Apple.  So no, while it would be cool, there is no business case for it...
2018/06/08 00:47:27
JonD
Forgive my ignorance (I'm not a Mac user), but is running an Hackintosh still an option?
 
I thought I read something about Apple moving away from Intel, so I'm not sure if or when that will happen. But for the time being, especially now that CWbBL is free, any Hackintosh user on the planet can have it -- so a native Mac version has got to be way, way down on Bandlab's priority list.
2018/06/08 01:07:49
bapu
History is starting to repeat itself.
 
Everyday.
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