GraphMaN
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Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
Now that TASCAM has dropped Gigastudio 4, has any one at Cakewalk or Roland thought of grabbing it?
The one glaring omission from Cakewalk's lineup is a quality sampler.
Logis has EXS24, MOTU has Mach5, Steinberg has HALion.
Cakewalk has ???
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GraphMaN
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 12:38:43
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Well folks..if no one chimes in with a "gosh! What a great idea !" Cakewalk Roland will not get the hint ! 
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The Maillard Reaction
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 12:50:56
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Have you ever used a Cakewalk product?
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GraphMaN
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 13:27:14
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I am registered Cakewalk user.
I began using Cakewalk on Win 3.1 with a Roland MPU-401.
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rumleymusic
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 13:52:41
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So you know the answer.  How many products has Cakewalk ever bought out? though... someone will probably buy Giga. Tascam wasn't the first to own it if you remember.
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The Maillard Reaction
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 13:56:16
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ORIGINAL: GraphMaN
I am registered Cakewalk user.
I began using Cakewalk on Win 3.1 with a Roland MPU-401.
Have you tried any of the Samplers that come with SONAR?
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bapu
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 18:05:55
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Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio? Maybe. Maybe not. Prolly not.
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Phrauge
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/28 18:56:16
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Hopefully not. Can you imagine the CS/TS nightmare that would be, having to support existing users?
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Fog
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/30 18:12:38
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ORIGINAL: Phrauge
Hopefully not. Can you imagine the CS/TS nightmare that would be, having to support existing users?
+1 also the fact, the source code might be like looking at spaghetti. It's done tascam no favours regardless.. I do feel sorry for the current users though.. been there myself with another company, but in their case they just vanished. It would be a great thing if one of their competitors took the incentive to offer a cross-grade if they don't already.
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Beagle
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/30 19:44:02
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yes, NI offers a crossgrade from ANY version of GS. I just don't have $279 for NI tho. 
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kwgm
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/30 22:06:49
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ORIGINAL: GraphMaN
Now that TASCAM has dropped Gigastudio 4, has any one at Cakewalk or Roland thought of grabbing it?
The one glaring omission from Cakewalk's lineup is a quality sampler.
Logis has EXS24, MOTU has Mach5, Steinberg has HALion.
Cakewalk has ???
Please, not Gigastudio -- Cakewalk has enough problems with Sonar right now. Kontakt is a great sampler. I keep discovering impressive features, which is an experience reminiscent of my year 1 with Sonar. On the other hand, using Gigastudio is like using Halion, both reminiscent of a dog's breakfast.
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Bonzos Ghost
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/31 11:32:44
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If they're smart, they won't. Let the dinosaur die.
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rumleymusic
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/10/31 12:10:28
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If they're smart, they won't. Let the dinosaur die. But in 50 million years someone will find a Gigastudio disk and try to resurrect it by adding the missing programming code from a modern word processor. It will work, but Giga will end up killing 3 people before I can be isolated on a tropical island and abandoned. ...ahh I kill me...
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Fog
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/11/05 21:13:06
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Beagle, see what Christmas brings. companies know are attention (and money) is elsewhere around that time and new year. see if they drop the prices a bit.. GPO did last year on their stuff, saved me 1/3 if I recall.
wasn't giga really expensive when you got it?
I would get all the giga users stateside together.. then 1 of you approach a retailer.. I'd like to buy x amount of copies of it.. see what they can do.
the price they ask and what you can haggle with in a pro-audio shop maybe different.. I always haggle when buying from DV in person.. If I didn't they'd think I was ill.
haggle ping pong is a good sport.. you play the retailers off against each other, within bounds.
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Beagle
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RE: Will Cakewalk buy Gigastudio?
2008/11/05 21:43:46
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wasn't giga really expensive when you got it? yep. that's why I can't afford the crossgrade! actually, that and the fact that I've spent a lot of money lately on hardware. haggling's good. "20 skeckles for that, you must be mad!!!" (Monty Python reference)
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