Matrix view lookout..

Jind

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I'm always happy to see the competition to Sonar get inventive and creative.

I don't really see Cakewalk as "inventive/creative" in their product output; I see them more as Utilitiy type programmers (ie, get the basics working, add some utitlities like track folders, etc -- that kind of thing).

So when the ccompetition starts putting out very cool and modern ideas (function based), it somewhat forces Cake to take notice and occasionally play catch-up.

Studio One, Abelton Live, FL, and a few other hosts have been coming up with some real interesting tools/functions so I do hope there'll be some pressure on CW to kick their programming staff butts into higher gear now that X1 has basically been stabilized.

There's a lot of neat stuff going on in the DAW market, and there's no reason CW can't compete more aggressively and creatively  as well.

I'm very much aligned with this viewpoint, but I do feel for Cakewalk a little bit and can understand reservations about implementing too many features from other DAW programs as it's very much damned if you do, damned if you don't.  There were users that got bent out of shape that any development time was spent on Matrix View, claims of the the new Ableton crowd being catered to at the expense of the old school MIDI and (later audio) functionality that Twelve Tone was founded upon.


Personally I like all different ways to create music and once I decided to do some work in Matrix View found it to be a creative tool to add to my already tried and true methods.  Do I use it each and every day? No, but I don't have any issues with further development being used to make it a better tool.  


Like Billy, I hope Cakewalk look at what others find attractive about other products and offer functionality where possible that keep them competitive in a very an obviously crowded market.

As always, individual mileage may vary.