It's a pity we are having similar sorts of discussions and issues that we were having in X2/X3 though .... Progress sure but we need another leap.

This comment is not directed at anyone at all , my comments are directed at ideas not people ….
 
I have sat on the sidelines as somebody who wanted to upgrade from X3 to the current Plat ,,
Plat came out and it was at the exact time that I moved my living arrangements geographically . 
 
I look back at what has happened in the past 9 months and so many things have changed … 
The way Cakewalk does business has changed and the features are rolling out so fast I can hardly keep up .
 
Let me make it clear , I'm OK w change up to a certain point and I'm not qualified to criticize or beat a War Drum over how things have changed ….since I'm still on X3 ….take my 2 cents w a grain of salt …
 
Overall from what I'm getting reading the forum , I think that there are a large number of people that seem to be enjoying most of what has been taking place ….
 
Just as one human being talking to another , When I also factor in even Windows has changed everything with Win 10 …….
I feel like I'm left here feeling somewhat confused about everything that has taken place ….
 
It sort of reminds me of the time when a " friend of mine " invited me out to sit in with his band and he told me not to bother bringing my guitar ….he said there would be a guitar and an amp at his gig for me to use …
When I got up on the stage to play ,he handed me a lefty guitar strung as a lefty and put a little smirk on his face …
I wound up wiping that smirk off his face real fast…the poor fella never knew that I worked in music stores for years and that I used to love to break the boredom of it all by playing lefty guitars upside down as a righty 
 
My point is , It is very easy for a person ( in this case me ) to feel somewhat threatened when everything I have gotten comfortable doing workflow wise has been changed to the point where I don't even know how to do easily what I normally could do….( I'm starting to think maybe I didn't know what I was doing the whole time ) 
When you factor in all the new features in SONAR & having to learn all of that, plus a Windows OS change 
It is pretty easy for me to feel as if somebody has been trying to turn my DAW into a lefty   
 
Kenny
 
 
 
 

Vastman once again I see you are on the war drum.
 

Doktor Avanche
Progress sure but we need another leap.

 

Vastman
Huge amount of bug fixes, tweaks, improvements every month since SPlt was introduced...

 
What bit about "progress for sure" don't you understand?


I said we need another leap, there are still a lot of legacy issues that need fixing. That's a fact and should not be regarded as a slight on the product nor should take away from Cakewalk's hard work so far.
 

Doktor Avanche
It's a pity we are having similar sorts of discussions and issues that we were having in X2/X3 though .... 

 

Vastman
 
What's the "pity" is the Avalanche of insinuations that little has changed since X2... 

 
Hoho. That's the second thread you decide to go on the personal and polarise everything. Just stop it. Reasonable discussions (even with differences of opinion) can happen without having to bite people's legs off.

With everything that's been said about "moving on" posts,
 
I think with Tom's post, it was just as much a cry for better notation / songwriting support, so he doesn't have to move on.
 
I've used Cakewalk since before it could record audio...  But I had some breaks in between and I've never recaptured the total command of the program I had when it was more  ...simple.
 
Around the Year 2000, I suddenly did a lot of recording again, with pro-musicians coming in, recording tracks, and I got really good at it again, but the only way I could keep Cakewalk going was by removing the side panels of my computer and putting a large box fan next to it.  Without, Cakewalk Pro 8.5 (I think) would just crash or even blue screen the system.
 
Now I don't have better hardware and Cakewalk's newer software, but I can't even tell what has changed or what I've simply forgotten.
 
I hope Cakewalk will implement some song tools, like the sections in Studio One, that you can drag around with all tracks coming along.  Or, for all I know, maybe Cakewalk just doesn't advertise it but can actually do it in some way or other that's just not as obvious...