yorolpal


I hereby urge the new overlords of Cake/Roland/Boss/Insert your corporate identity here to simply gaze at the beatific avatar to the left of this post. That's right, gaze longingly and lovingly.  Is it not the face and the iconic symbol, if you will, of the "new" corporate identity you are looking for? I'm pretty sure the answer is a resounding YES!!!! 

I urge you at your earliest convenience to contact me via PM and discuss my endorsement of your products and services...and my remuneration for same.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Doghouse Riley

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The roster of ex-cakewalkers is almost as long as the list of ex-forum participants. We probably shouldn't read too much into it, though. High turnover at tech companies is normal  - it's how you get a raise. 

I'd hope he'd land someplace like Spectrasonics where his particular skillset would be well-suited and appreciated. But more likely he'll wind up in an unrelated industry, which has been the case for other Cakewalk expats.

It is kinda funny that he didn't do the big "goodbye" from his official Cakewalk admin account though. That suggests to me that the whole thing happened kinda quickly. 

Well now, I give it another 5 ~ 7 posts, then I can jump in.

Don't know what motivated Seth's departure but the industry isn't getting better.

A few weeks ago I read that for the first time ever, a lite version of Pro Tools would be bundled w/ 3rd party products (namely, M-Audio and Akai). Which is kind of silly when you consider that Avid dropped M-Audio last summer. They also announced a new CEO last week. 

Also, after unlocking Pro Tools HD from Avid hardware, they now seem to take a step back, as the software will indeed work w/ 3rd party interfaces but can no longer be bought separately from the HD interface.

W/ all this back and forth, cutting this and that and seeking new strategic alliances leaves me w/ an impression that the giant is actually bleeding to death. 

Not sure Roland would struggle so desperately to keep Cakewalk alive.

OTOH, not every takeover is bad. From the outside, Steinberg seems to be in good hands w/ Yamaha.

I just hope he did not say "you better fix staff view and all the bugs post haste" on time too many. 

bapu


I just hope he did not say "you better fix staff view and all the bugs post haste" on time too many. 

Well, they "fixed" the Cakewalk staff view.  Now you can't see Seth anymore...

Rain, the red ink/vulture capitalists/bad decision makers at Avid are headed towards the land of business legend.  When they purchased Pinnacle to integrate with their main stuff they paid something like $62 million, IIRC (or was it $52M?).  When they dumped it, they sold it to Canadian Corelle (!!) for $3 million, IIRC.  They've been running Avid that way for the past few years.  At least the former Sibelius employees landed somewhere beneficial.

I'm starting to feel The FSF was such a waste.

It was for Seth P. after all.

craigb, there seems to be a deadly disease of some sort of staff infection going around CW land.  Maybe it was caused by an improperly baked cake using spoiled ingredients.  Who knows?