What free content bundle do you think viable to be included with CbB future update?

Adaptive limiter, l-series eq and, multiband, ca2a t-type compressor. Maybe z3ta...

I don't recall Adaptive Limiter being a paid for option.  It was only in SPLAT and other people said they would like to buy it, but it it was locked to SPLAT....not even Artist users could get it even though it wasn't a pro-channel.
 
 

Bandlab already has thousands of free loops on their site, and instruments, too. I'm not holding my breath for expensive plugins/VSTi's for free.
 
I got a little spoiled in the last couple of years, with Addictive Drums, True Pianos, the CA-2A, LP-EQ, Adaptive Limiter, VocAlign, Drum Replacer, and so on. I never expected all those perks, and I honestly didn't know how I was going to pay for the stuff I thought I needed. It was great while it lasted, but if the party's over, I have no regrets and I'm grateful for what I have.

Adding plugins to sweeten the pot made sense when you were trying to coax new buyers into dropping half a grand, or veterans to fork over a hundred dollars or more for an upgrade. If getting a professional class DAW for the price of exposing yourself to a BandLab account (and pumping up their subscriber numbers to impress the money people) is not sufficient then I hope Meng paid a really really fire sale price for the Cakewalk code. The logical synergy here is to have those plugin developers who already do so launch their limited feature demos onto the new market. In fact a lot of the stuff that Cakewalk was providing was on that model. If BandLab itself spends any significant money buying, or even less likely, developing add-ins for Cakewalk I will be surprised. 
 
I would in fact expect that the future development goals will be strong integration with other BandLab products, followed by serious efforts to bug-proof the code so that people will not complain that the product does not work, and the support is limited, as was the case in the waning days of Cakewalk the company. If anything, the feature set is likely to be paired back. The new user is much less likely to be a heavy duty DAW user, and more likely to be a musician with a side interest in home recording, or a loop-based beat composer. So long as CakewalkBBB is capable of running industry standard plugins (a plethora of which are already free or available at very low prices) it would make little sense to increase the feature set, let alone provide expensive plugs.

Meng posted a request for features , improvements, AKA wish list for CbB just a week prior to the CbB launch. I expect that he takes integration of Splat on a large scale to the existing user base of Bandlab. That's a very smart move for a pro desk top DAW to integrate to a tablet version of a Daw for mobile or online use. They don't have to be the same product - they may need to communicate like it though. Very forward thinking if I'm guessing right.

Studio-ES
For those of you with a fresh CbB installation, in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\Internal, there are some ProChannel plugins, but also some VSTs that are permanently excluded in the VST Scanner: Boost (2nd one), PX64, TL64, & VX64.
Boost11 is also in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\VstPlugins and works great, but I'm just curious why there is a second one in that first folder? And why the other 3 VST FX (PX64, TL64, VX64) are permanently excluded? I'm just curious...This is a fresh install of CbB on a computer with no other Cakewalk products installed.

i believe the excluded ones are somehow used/referenced by the pc modules?
 
and why-oh-why didn't they take this opportunity to start a new "Shared..." folder hive (like for example "C:\Program Files\BandLab\Shared Utilities..."), keeping it separate from the previous Sonar one?

As far as third-party plugs, I believe that Melodyne was/is the biggest and best addition to SONAR.  I would vote for Melodyne.
 
Kind regards,
 
tecknot

There is so many great vst / vsti out there, the point is not to bundle "stripped paid goodies from well known commercial brand" as free content. More like distribution cooperation. In which the 3rd party gains more popularity by cooperation with Cakewalk, while Cakewalk got nice additional content to offer. Those ones with similar philosophy of "spreading free good tools for good musician to make good music for good people". Not only this would benefit the user, but also encouraging both developer to look for opportunity to make their softwares more compatible each other.

I prefer zero 3rd party plugins & additional content altogether. Keep the daw the focus, keep it lean & mean.

carlman
I prefer zero 3rd party plugins & additional content altogether. Keep the daw the focus, keep it lean & mean.

Absolutely.  The only content I could see to include is the Pro Channel stuff.

A real live good sounding virtual vocalist would be a nice touch.