Leadfoot
It's kinda ironic to see a Les Paul and an ES-335 in the same booth.

Unless they're Heritage's.. is that their logo on the backdrop?

I had a chance to stop by the booth at AES.  I had a nice chat with Mike Balzarini from BandLab who you can see facing the camera in the picture above.  Mike is a Cakewalk emigre.  He was a support guy at Cakewalk.  Noel was pretty busy, which is a good thing, but I did get to say hi.  There was some good interest from attendees, at least for the 10 minutes or so I was there.  I was struck by the guitars as well.  They are Heritage guitars, now a member of the BandLab family.  I played the 335 style guitar for a minute or two.  It feels very much like ES-335, has a very Gibson-y neck.  Anyway, it was a nice visit and I hope they continue on their path.  Mike indicated that there was a lot of positive energy and activity up in Massachusetts.

Thanks for clearing that up Ron!

I'm very interested to see what Meng and co. do with the Teisco and Harmony brands.
 
My friend Mike Robinson at Eastwood Guitars has done very well by the Airline brand, faithful reissues. They list in the $600-700 range.
 
I'd like to see Teisco return to its roots as an inexpensive guitar, but with the original body shapes and quirky pickups.
 
The Chinese guitar building companies are making some very good axes these days.

Teisco are were Japanese. Meng is from Singapore. What suggests they'll be made in China?
 
 

Kamikaze
Teisco are were Japanese. Meng is from Singapore. What suggests they'll be made in China?
 

Yeah, I always thought all the Teisco stuff was made in Japan. Kawai owned them for a while, and although some of their products (I think) might have been made in Korea, the Teisco stuff was always made in Japan.
 
Manufacturing electronic products in China makes sense, as there's loads of companies there with the technology & facilities to mass produce them at a very low cost.
 
For acoustic instruments though, probably not so much unless you're selling a re-badged copy of something a company is already manufacturing.

Hi all,
 
I just got back yesterday from the show so just getting to check on the forums again. Sorry I couldn't post from there. Bad internet and the show was really busy for us. I've posted quite a bit on social media but here is an update for all of you who may not have seen it. 
 
Thanks to all of you who came and met us.  We had an awesome show at AES that exceeded expectations. We literally had hundreds of users who stopped by and we gave demos and answered questions. It was very inspiring to meet everyone and hear their experiences with Cakewalk. So many had used Cakewalk since the 90's and earlier and had stories to share. I also recorded some interviews with a few users who stopped by. I'll collect them and we'll post later.
 
The demos went great and people were really impressed with all the new features we've added to CbB over the last months including elastique and all the PRV and color management improvements. I even had SONAR there to show people side by side how much had changed.


Our rig at AES:
Surface Book 2 with pen/dial. We had a Samsung 32" curved display, KEF LS 50 wireless speakers, Focusrite 6i6, BandLab Link analog and digital, Korg Nanokey studio bluetooth, Heritage H-535 and H-150 guitars.
 
Cakewalk performed flawlessly on the Surface Book all 3 days. I had a scare on the first morning when I hooked it all up and BbB wouldn't start. It turned out to be caused by the infamous bluetooth bug in Windows where a disconnected device can hang when you try and open it. Fortunately it was solved by turning on the device. Microsoft apparently has a patch that addresses this which isn't available yet to end users.
 
Booth Video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SmA9xwWulB4dQXhP8_XLuxdROU3nLADe/view?usp=sharing
 
Handout
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kcLQyTPlsJ8IKnUoX0e5L9taPqpnQKpE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/...58CfS/view?usp=sharing
 
Show pix
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iA2ieX9er0HQOWZ1mg_X7YB_8HivkglJ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-QCyD2j73ZJ5mBG087DzXSrCKbBPdF2N/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J06kntKszJmvfLHhRS9s7Dim_tAYk24w/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QyX4AChq5LFVMsvyXS9WBsXhbCs6LMbx/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y4Br5BmQQxOVg3BApCfsZ9AuHeaP2Eq2/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SMR28YXG6_rcDS2GAz6kMWrdikV-6x8t/view?usp=sharing
 
Michael Filson and Mike Balzarini chatting up some users
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uF9ysv8_Wfd2N1-nAqSWuVsd6okHwwKM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pCFcnET6VA49KTcqF1qWqQmsgXCjMfSY/view?usp=sharing

Mike and the amazing bassist Will Lee who stopped by
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14s0WAEbmLgl8XuzZUyh7lZ4aD7qPo-5w/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16vLIQut8OtQBJHpYATN_wDA4dxHWK9jD/view?usp=sharing

War stories with ex Cakewalkers Andrew Rossa and Dan Gonzalez
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bzsPkoD8H8ICOFSeOGkU9s-Gf0ApUUo0/view?usp=sharing
 
Stephanie Scala and Anthony Hrehowsik from KEF (provided the awesome speakers)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ltP5rVK2abnZMyEhT_ghm_VBzKlki01f/view?usp=sharing
 

 

Welcome home Noel!

Great to hear the good news!

Thanks for the pix and all the work you and the 'labers' do!

Thanks for the update Noel - so glad it went well at the AES.

Exciting :)
Thank you for sharing