Mooch4056

bapu

yorolpal

Or

This should be the next presidents cabinet members no? 

 
I'm up for that.
 
Have my expenses paid into a Swiss bank account.
 
And fetch me Jimmy Carr's accountant.
 
 

bitflipper


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

Bub


@Starise:

I can honestly say, I don't think I've ever got the impression from anyone here in this thread that they want Cakewalk to fail.

I don't see that either.
 
Some of Cakewalks' harshest critics are among those that have cared the most about the product and the companies direction or seeming lack thereof over the last years.
 
Some people clearly have no idea of what is currently on offer in the market and just seem happy enough to own any old DAW.  It seems to me like many have just been soaking up a lot of half implemented features and bug ridden code for so long that they've forgotten they have a right to expect software products to do what they say they will do regularly and reliably, customer concerns have long been overshadowed by a marketing heavy approach that has tried convincing its loyal base that black is actually white despite their instincts telling them otherwise.
 
This forum was a fantastic resource for any company to have at it's disposal, yet less was taken into account from that resource than was taken from its own internal misguidance.
 
Most people that had sensible stuff to say and worthwhile solutions to offer from a customer perspective have long gone as a result of being ignored for years and nothing seeming to make any worthwhile difference. 
 
There's still angst for the customer from the point of entering the eStore to the point of getting resolve for issues with the products purchased.
 
I love the percentage of the product that I have that works and could see much potential in it when it was still at the forefront, it's been a major frustration to watch a product I was once proud of owning becoming an industry joke and falling so far behind in innovation and quality of implementation at such a point in the economic climate where I see that realistically nothing short of a miracle will turn around its long term fortunes now.
 
I wouldn't have wasted so much breath over so many years trying to flag problematic stuff up if at any point I'd wanted Cakewalk to fail, and if they do fail it wont be to do with their customers not saying anything about it, it will be because they didn't listen to the fantastic good-will that once had gifted to them on a plate that they managed to squander.
 
Now I just see people upstairs getting nasty if people come and say something honestly about any issues they run into because everyone now seems to be enjoying a party where mediocrity is the guest of honour and nobody else is invited.

More often than not, I seem to be wearing my asshat....

But seriously now folks... if you look to the past you may see the future. It a really small nutshell things went from mono to stereo recording, to fourtrack tape, to nice multi-track decks and huge mixing consoles, everything being done in a dedicated pro studio environment except for the 4-track (and more) cassette machines but the home stuff would not give you pro results. So that was pretty much the end of the line of analog.

Then digital came along with MIDI and the ADAT and home recording began to mature.

Then the next big step (really I am talking about two major stages, 1: the professional recording studio and 2: the home studio that was able to give professional results).
The DAW.. the DAW EMULATED  the HARDWARE in professional studio with software and I think we may be at the apex of that tech (of the software emulation of hardware). Of course, pro studios have gone digital mostly with PT while home studios use a variety of DAWs... studios, whether home of business seem to now be only limited by space, money, and knowledge.

So.. with the pro Studio at it's highest point (perhaps even past it. It's APEX may very well have been with the Studer and Amperex machines. Now.. perhaps the DAW (as we now know it, once the bugs are worked out) may well be at it's high point... without much more to build on it's foundation... or maybe I should say people nt willing to build much more on the traditional DAW foundations of software emuation of the hardware. Not that there aren't MANY more things that one could hope for BUT... overall technology moves on... ie Windows 8 and touch screen technology.

We may very well be crossing over into something new over the next few years. If the DAW was a software based emulation of a hardware studio what would be the next step in evolution, knowing what we now know?

A touch or movement based emulation of the DAW? For sure it is really hard to see the future or even imagine it and most of us poo poo things that are coming into being... but things are changing. That is certain. Can you imagine a DAW that is not only touch controlled with finger or pen but with some sort of laser pointer, by hand movements, a glove that will interact with a screen (think Wii), vocal commands? Something we have not thought of...

I agree with the posts above that W8 and whatever comes after and the products that it spawns are going to change everything, and don't forget the SSD, I'm sure it will soon become cheap and the hard drives we have been used to will go the way of the floppy disk.

We aren't there yet but we are going somewhere new.

J

All I know is I do not want this forum to fail.


Forum=people, not software (that has already failed in so many ways, Mike?)

bapu


All I know is I do not want this forum to fail.

Subtitle:
 
"Please, I need to keep my post count!  Not that it matters, bless my heart."
 

All I know is I do not want this forum to fail.

 
+1 Bapu... that would hurt.
 
J

Jonbouy

bapu


All I know is I do not want this forum to fail.

Subtitle:
 
"Please, I need to keep my post count!  Not that it matters, bless my heart."
 

Every one thinks knows it 
Jonbouy sez it

bapu

bitflipper


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

Secretary of Cool??

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.

My biggest problem with Reaper was the Reaperites.


Once I tried the program and learned how to modify the menus and remove most of the 25 ways to do any one particular thing from a half dozen directions in as many menus, I got along fine.

If you do mainly straight audio, you might like it.  And as much as it is an enigma at first, the power you find in the program is pretty amazing.

The reason I stopped using it was because I was afraid that clients watching over my shoulder would see how easy it is to use and then grab it for free and try to go it on their own.  

I love the Console view it has.