What DO you get with Cakewalk by Bandlab

I was curious so I grabbed a W10 Laptop we have at work. First I unistalled Home Studio and anything but the SI instrument suite. I was told that is the additional content you can choose to download. 
 
So I signed up under a made up name etc and signed in to Bandlab home page. Iwas expecting to find a huge link for the download of the assistant app? It was hard to find and was just a little link at the bottom of the web page. 
 
Anyhow got that going and downloaded and installed within 15 minutes. 
 
So I opened and poked around and here's what was there:
 
Under VST's there was only the SI instruments and TTS-1 for synths. 
In the Effects there is only the Sonitus stuff, Boost11 and TH3, 
The Pro channel is very stripped down with I guess what came with Artist. There are no Compressors. Just the Consol emulators. 
OK I did not dowload the addition stuff as it was over a GB and IT Dept will notice me. So if there is more than just SI stuff included someone let me know. 
 
Otherwise this is more or less Sonar Artist  certainly not Splat. 

The drum replacer and Adaptive limiter are not part of the SONAR Platinum installer so are not part of CbB either. VocalSync is in CbB along with the MFX plug-ins.

regarding Cakewalk by BandLab ....
instead of looking for plugs & stuff..... why not look at what you are getting feature wise ?
i put it on 2 machines where i had Splat .....as far as i can tell I still had mix recall and a bunch of other features i didn't get when i was running  X3 PE ....
need i list them ? that in it self blows away the whole comparing CW BL E to HS ...
 
Yes ? No ?
 
Kenny
 
PS , Thank you Noel ,and Meng

OK it might be closer to using Artist. 
 
I was just curious as to what a brand new user would be getting VST and Plug in wise, I totally understand that the features might be the same as Platinum. But my experience on opening it is it really reminded me of Home Studio more than Splat. Mostly because of the sparse Pro Channel offerings and the VST offerings. Yes it does have the synth Rack and Event List etc unlike HS. 
 
Don't get me wrong the intent of this is not to bash it at all, I just was curious about what the experience would be like for a new user who didn't have prior versions installed. We will end up helping new users here and it will be good to know what they have and don't have. 

OK I was wondering about that.  
When I was un installing everything I had Artist Instrument and the SI and I un installed the Artist and kept the SI. 
So only way to really do this is I'll bring the Laptop home this weekend and download the supplied extra files. 
 
I got a nasty email from the IT dept last time I was downloading big files. 
I'll also load up a project with Audio and see whats up with those tools. So far I only loaded a midi file. 

Thanks but of course I'm aware of all that, this is about just figuring out how it will be for those who do not have any Cakewalk software from the past. 
I'm sure Noel could just tell us, but I always do things the hard way :)  
 

I have installed the free version on my test computer and apart from a few issues with registry entries (my fault due to an earlier steam version leaving stuff behind) it works quite happily on the next windows build so far and scanned in all my 3rd party VST's.
Also this time you do get a warning that a new build is about to take place before you shut your PC down and on the plus side it didn't screw up my audio set-up for the 1st time.
 

This has probably been asked.....I have the full Sonar Plat last full version, do I need to install the additional content version or just the Cakewalk only?

scook
The drum replacer and Adaptive limiter are not part of the SONAR Platinum installer so are not part of CbB either. VocalSync is in CbB along with the MFX plug-ins.
 
I got Drum Replacer and Adaptive Limiter as part of the monthly update of Sonar Platinum(SPLAT) for free.

Thanks Meng a list would help for sure. 
 
This morning I did some experimenting. 
First, the assistant seems buggy still. It took 4 tries to get it to wake up. 
It was just going round and round and I had to kill it with Task Manager. 
Once I got it working I went to the APPs and found out the option to download  Cakewalk and the additional content is now gone. Oh well. 
 
So I loaded up an project with real drums etc and tried a few things I commonly do in Splat.
First I dragged a Bass track to a MIDI track, hey, it's working, it said "Mixing Down Audio" and  showed a progress bar like always. But sadly when it was finished there was nothing there. Was what I expected without Melodyn but I was briefly excited that it was going to work.
 
Under Regional Effects there is only Vocal Sync. No drum replacer. 

I'll just add this here.
Because there is no theme editor yet first timers have only the 2 themes Tungsten and Mercury. 
Tungsten I can no longer use because of the Dark PVR so have to use Mercury. 
Murcury defaults to your track colours overlayed on each track which is almost more annouying than the Dark PVR.
Noel pointed me to a little box you uncheck in Preferences/Colours that disables this. 
 
People with the Splat version can copy over the Sonar  Tungsten theme to the Cakewalk Theme folder. 

Different products from different companies each with their own license. Given that BandLab purchased Gibson/Cakewalk IP and recommends maintaining your previous SONAR install while adding CbB, I doubt there is a legal issue.

Cactus Music
 
So no compressors. 
 

Not sure this is correct. Check the PC modules in the track. If either the PC76 and PC4K are already on the track, they will not show in the insert module menu. The one not in use should appear on the replace module menu.