SongCraft

IIRC Brandon hinted that he would still be working in the interest of Cakewalk/Sonar software.

Brandon is still here. He's still an Admin on the forum. 

Also, it seems a coincidence that all these changes since the Roland take-over followed by Brandon's move to Roland (probably to lead the development team) around the same time Windows 8 is released....

It all started when Greg Hendershott sold out a couple months ago.

At that point, I knew we would see more people follow either voluntarily or involuntarily.

Brandon works for Roland now, not for Cakewalk.

I understand that may be a fine line distinction, but I'm sure his duties have different priorities and he reports to different people than he used to.

bapu

yorolpal

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This should be the next presidents cabinet members no? 

Mooch4056

bapu

yorolpal

Or

This should be the next presidents cabinet members no? 

depends on who's president....

How come I didn't get a hat?

I was going to ask the same thing. Where do I get one of those hats?

bitflipper


I was going to ask the same thing. Where do I get one of those hats?

You have to be a potential Candidate for the president to pick you as a cabinet member. I think Bit would be good to maybe be ...secretary of technology music education. If that's not a cabinet post it should be.  

I haven't got my hat yet, 

it must have flew over the cuckoo's nest. 

Beagle


Brandon works for Roland now, not for Cakewalk.

I understand that may be a fine line distinction, but I'm sure his duties have different priorities and he reports to different people than he used to.

Thanks for explaning that. 

SongCraft

Linear Phase


Reaper is a rock solid, well coded, fully featured daw that does not have any audio dropouts.


The consumer price of Reaper is a famous $60, while the business license is actually upward of $240.


Thinking Reaper is, "a cheap 60 dollar software," completely misses the realities of the software industry right now.  The truth is other softwares may be overpriced, or at the very least, "more expensive because of their marketing budget, or sheer amount of tools they are bundled with," not their core functionality.

Where Reaper fails is in its workflow.  Reaper gives me a headache, and I find it a pita to use.

But a lot of folks, are a bit more techy then I, and they are using Reaper with great success, and its definitely a full featured, rock solid daw.

Agree! I don't like the workflow. 


If anything, Studio One 2 Professional has crossed my mind, but it does have a few concerns in the midi department. SONAR and Cubase has always led in that field. 

No DAW is perfect.  So, I'm a gonna hav ta sit on the side-lines with me ole faithful SONAR and a bucket of popcorn and see how events play out over the next 12 months before I make any sudden, serious moves for a home run! 

The Reaper guys have the right spirit and approach, and their product is solid.  But as mentioned, the UI and workflow leave a lot to be desired.
 
I'm at a crossroads here too.  Money for music software is pretty tight for me.  Have to decide if a $99 upgrade would be better spent in another camp.
 
Does anyone know how Roland fares financially compared to Yamaha or Korg?  Roland seems to have lost the plot with their flagship keyboards.  For workstations, it seems like the pros are opting for Motifs and Kronos / M3's.  I see guys using Fantom G's, but instead of improving that, Roland comes out with the Jupiter 80 / 50.  IMHO, they should have implemented some virtual analog into the Fantom G or it's successor.
 
The Boss GT-100 wasn't exactly welcomed with open arms.  More of an incremental upgrade from the GT-10.
 
Not sure what you guys were alluding to re: Cakewalk's future "some will love it some will hate it" message.
 
A possible spin-off of Cake to MS??