Beginning to see Cakewalk / BandLab videos posted on You Tube now since the release.
The word is spreading.
 

Are you saying we should all come out (of the closet) and shout it from the rooftops?

bapu
Are you saying we should all come out (of the closet) and shout it from the rooftops?

LOL!....Yes!
 
FLStudio, Ableton Live, Studio1 are very vocal and have jumped up and surpassed many DAWs in popularity even though they are actualy pretty young DAWs. FLStudio just got full audio capability only a few versions back. These DAWs have also advanced and improved by leaps and bounds over a short period of time because of this surge of new users. We need that same kind of increase in user base as well.
 
 
 

a, not a lot of interest on Gear Sluts. But that's self explanitory. 
 
Here's some gems that caught my attention:
 These are Quotes from people on Gearslutz in the Cakewalk sub forum_
"My hope is this will also invigorate the CW forum with new users looking forward and dilute the older set in their way types that emotionally reign over that forum at the expense of semi-pro and professional users. "
 
"Considering Cakewalk was, if not THE most bloated software on the planet, releasing it stripped down is a nice change. No more of those tons of plugs every update. Stripped of all that Craig Anderton garbage. This is what Cakewalk should have been doing from the start instead of ignoring tons of bugs and removing features that worked so that they can use the time in the update cycle to figure out how to jam more bloatware and garbage into Sonar to attract more sales"
 
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/cakewalk-sonar/1209978-sonar-now-free-all-3.html
 

+1 Oh yes spreeding the word!!!
 
 

fresh101

bapu
Are you saying we should all come out (of the closet) and shout it from the rooftops?

LOL!....Yes!
 
FLStudio, Ableton Live, Studio1 are very vocal and have jumped up and surpassed many DAWs in popularity even though they are actualy pretty young DAWs. FLStudio just got full audio capability only a few versions back. These DAWs have also advanced and improved by leaps and bounds over a short period of time because of this surge of new users. We need that same kind of increase in user base as well.

while i appreciate the enthusiasm, the above is just not right -

• FL has been around for 20 years and Live since 2001
• FL, Live and SO, are popular because they do what they do do very well
• SO has benefited from being the newcomer, not because of "vocal users" or a "surge of new users" but because it's a totally new app built by ex-cubase devs based on years of experience and prototyping - they know how to architect this stuff and had a long-term roadmap from the get go- imagine if the cakewalk devs had that luxury!

/imo/fwiw

Cactus Music
a, not a lot of interest on Gear Sluts. But that's self explanitory. 
 
Here's some gems that caught my attention:
 
"My hope is this will also invigorate the CW forum with new users looking forward and dilute the older set in their way types that emotionally reign over that forum at the expense of semi-pro and professional users. "
 
"Considering Cakewalk was, if not THE most bloated software on the planet, releasing it stripped down is a nice change. No more of those tons of plugs every update. Stripped of all that Craig Anderton garbage. This is what Cakewalk should have been doing from the start instead of ignoring tons of bugs and removing features that worked so that they can use the time in the update cycle to figure out how to jam more bloatware and garbage into Sonar to attract more sales"
 
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/cakewalk-sonar/1209978-sonar-now-free-all-3.html
 

that was well said, i left cakewalk to tracktion as i didnt agree to be blackmailed into paying for updates. not sure how long it'll be free but it is a no brainer. lets see what they do to enhance the mighty sonar
 

fresh101
 Reaper and Fl studio have benefited greatly over the last few years from a surge of new users. We could easily do the same.

I do not think there is something to attract Reaper users,

Cactus Music
a, not a lot of interest on Gear Sluts. But that's self explanitory. 
...
"Considering Cakewalk was, if not THE most bloated software on the planet

From the Reaper users perspective, the INSTALLER is already ~7 times bigger then whole Reaper package, and that is before it starts to download the DAW.
The next point: "free... with online authorization???". While for all other DAWs that is long time "normal", for Reaper that sounds funny.
And thous who still consider to install it, immediately realize it is old. 30 years for a software is a lot, it is may be "wise", but it is too slow and grumbles by gentle touch. Push a bit harder and it falls apart

pwalpwal



while i appreciate the enthusiasm, the above is just not right -

• FL has been around for 20 years and Live since 2001
• FL, Live and SO, are popular because they do what they do do very well
• SO has benefited from being the newcomer, not because of "vocal users" or a "surge of new users" but because it's a totally new app built by ex-cubase devs based on years of experience and prototyping - they know how to architect this stuff and had a long-term roadmap from the get go- imagine if the cakewalk devs had that luxury!

FLStudio aka FRUITY LOOPS was just a toy till about version 4 and was a joke in the industry by any serious user for a long time. That's why they changed the name. To help remove the cheap toy stigma. As it's base grew they continued to develop it heavily. It's grown tremendously in the past 5 or so years. It may have been around for 20 yrs but it wasn't even part of the conversation till about 8 years ago. Live and S1 are also very young when compared to Cakewalk, Protools, Cubase.
 
When I was first picking a DAW, Opcode Studio Vision(also killed by Gibson), Digital Performer, Digital Orchestrator, Logic and a few others were other viable options.
 
My point is this. When the "Which DAW should I get?" question pops up.(which I've heard plenty over the years) Not enough of us are saying Cakewalk. That's got to change. Now that price is no longer an issue this is the best time.
 
 
 

Why is this notion facing so much resistance? Do we want Cakewalk/Bandlab to fail?
 
All I'm asking you to do is say "Hey, Cakewalk is a great Daw...You should give it a try...oh, and by the it's free now too"
Some of you guys act like I'm asking people to give blood or something. sheesh!