I hope it does more than just recording ideas that you can then move to a DAW. The iPhone Voice Recorder is already a quick way to record a demo.

Double post for some reason...

Was excited to see an app announcement, but was sad to see it wasn't a controller for Sonar.

witty. lol
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
If you have ever tried moving an idea you captured in your IOS environment to a PC or mac or even another device you might be aware of how horribly slow and convoluted that experience is :)
 
We hope that once you try it you will agree that there is nothing out there that has this level of simplicity to capture and access ideas anywhere on any device. Creativity is all about immediacy and being able to capture or access musical ideas without getting bogged down with sharing services and other time consuming cross platform constraints.
 

^^^ this

SEVerstraten
I would assume the ideas captured in the app are saved somewhere in ' the cloud'. Will there also be a hassle free offline way to  sync these idea's to the DAW? A of members here have their main machine offline.

Cloud and offline use are not synonymous :) So to sync something you will at least temporarily need to be online on some PC. You could also sync on a different online PC and then bring over that project to your DAW manually using what ever manual method you use today. Once we're close to release we'll have more videos and content to show how seamless the integration with a DAW is.

Fleer

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
If you have ever tried moving an idea you captured in your IOS environment to a PC or mac or even another device you might be aware of how horribly slow and convoluted that experience is :)
 
We hope that once you try it you will agree that there is nothing out there that has this level of simplicity to capture and access ideas anywhere on any device. Creativity is all about immediacy and being able to capture or access musical ideas without getting bogged down with sharing services and other time consuming cross platform constraints.
 

^^^ this

I can only speak from the experience of moving a recorded Voice Memo track from the iPhone to Sonar.  It is relatively easy to upload from the App, straight to Drop Box, then import directly from Drop Box to Sonar.  If this new App is even easier, that will be very welcome.
 
For the typical guitar playing song writer, what is really needed is an App that incorporates the ability to capture the base guitar track, as a scratch track, that you can move to Sonar.  From there, obviously you will use it as a guide track to record from a better source.  
 
What no one seems to be able to put together as a complete song writers App that has the ability to integrate this with a second track to be used for scratch vocals and then a lyric writing scratch pad.  It would be nice to be able to easily and quickly capture lyric ideas and then quickly demo those to the chord progressions to see how they sound; all before moving the scratch tracks into Sonar.  Most of my lyric ideas get captured at very inconvenient times, quickly by just speaking to Notes on my iPhone of iPad.  Often one line at a time, right in the middle of doing something else, so it has to be quick and easy to capture, before you forget the lyric idea.  
 
Integrating all of this into one simple to use App, that is quick to use would be extremely welcome.  Being able to type/ speak lyrics into an App, while actually listening to the scratch track play would be extremely welcome.  Right now, I have to jump from 3-4 Apps, Voice Memo, Notes, Chord Apps, Rhyming Apps, Thesaurus App, to make it all work and its not convenient at all.  

i could've sworn ryan or someone said they wouldn't do any more ios stuff?

IOS doesn't take any longer than Android. Upload to Drop Box, then Import to Sonar directly from Drop Box. It's very simple and easy.

I am excited to see what Cakewalk has come up with as well.

michaelhanson
IOS doesn't take any longer than Android. Upload to Drop Box, then Import to Sonar directly from Drop Box. It's very simple and easy.

it does take longer, with android you can plug a device into a pc usb port and it shows up as an external hd, no logins, no internet, no special software...

Well, I just sent a file to Drop Box from my iPhone and it took less than 3 seconds, so I don't see this as being that slow.   It's literally faster than I could plug in a Lighting cord.  I am always logged in.  Yes, you have to have an internet connection to down load, but not to up load from iPhone. 
 
It's not inconvenient because I already use DB for business and it links all of my computers at once.  The band I work with also uses DB and Google for file sharing on collabs.  
 
So maybe not as elegant, but pretty simple in my view.  I guess to each his own.  

I think this is going to be a whole lot more than just syncing files to the cloud, in terms of organizational features that are geared toward capturing and arranging musical ideas. Nobody's going to buy an app just to sync files, so it's obviously above and beyond that. 
 
It looks quite interesting to me. I often have time to kill between jobs or appointments when I'm sat around in a coffee shop either blindly looking at social media or reading a book. So maybe this will give me one more time killing option, one that's actually useful. 
 
I always think it's strange how people dismiss stuff like this before they've even seen what it is. 
 
And as for anyone being surprised that it features Ableton in the teaser and not Sonar - well this is clearly geared to be independent of any particular DAW. So if they have to show a DAW in the promotion, they might as well show one that's popular with Millennials. They are, after all, the biggest market for mobile apps. Might be a good way of herding some non-Sonar users into the Cakewalk stable anyway. I presume that whomever buys and registers with this app is going to be getting a ton of Cakewalk promotions directed toward their inbox. 
 

:)