noldar12

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?

This is how the world is now. I'm actually feeling nauseous right now because I went through this a while ago and it's conjuring up some bad memories. My wife went through this too ... but she's a couple of incredibly expensive pieces of paper hanging on the wall that guarantee's her safety. That's how the worlds going these days.

I bet Brandon's feeling really bummed now seeing how he got pulled in to Roland's fold and Seth didn't.

Ahh, but think of the waist line of that "waste".  That is one super extra nasty sumo wrestler type thread waist.  Wouldn't want to tangle with that thread at all: the super intimidating super sumo super fred.

Jonbouy,

Can you wake up the rest of the UK and Europe?

They need to know what's happened.

bapu

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

Or

As you can see, I already have a staff of subservient minions at the ready to say YES to your every idea or request. We at dangtastic.com stand at the ready to serve you in whatever capacity you require.  You will not be disappointed. Together we will CHANGE EVERYTHING.

yorolpal

bapu

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

Or

As you can see, I already have a staff of subservient minions at the ready to say YES to your every idea or request. We at dangtastic.com stand at the ready to serve you in whatever capacity you require.  You will not be disappointed. Together we will CHANGE EVERYTHING.

We'll change everything!!!!
Except our hats. We need our hats. Without our hats, we're nothing. Well, we're something but just not SOMETHING noamimsayn?

Rain


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.

A lite version of Pro Tools has been bundled with M-Audio products for a long time. My Fast Track came with Pro Tools MP and I think before that they were bundling the interfaces with Pro Tools LE.

sharke

Rain


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.

A lite version of Pro Tools has been bundled with M-Audio products for a long time. My Fast Track came with Pro Tools MP and I think before that they were bundling the interfaces with Pro Tools LE.

I know - which is why the news is silly. But apparently they've teamed up w/ inMusic Brands, new owners of M-Audio and AIR - the two of which have been dropped by Avid last summer - as well as Akai, Alesis and a bunch of others.


http://www.inmusicbrands....logy-form-new-alliance

noldar12


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.

Man that's bad!


Wait, they owned Pinnacle? Didn't Pinnacle own Steinberg for a while? Man, that's messed up.

yorolpal

bapu

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

Or

As you can see, I already have a staff of subservient minions at the ready to say YES to your every idea or request. We at dangtastic.com stand at the ready to serve you in whatever capacity you require.  You will not be disappointed. Together we will CHANGE EVERYTHING.

*In my best obedient robot voice*
YES.

It's a sorry state of affairs, but unfortunately it's systemic. At the moment this departure sucks, but at least they didn't wait until he had 25 years and was 50+. Cough, cough...Hmm.

I wish the young man well and hope this isn't the beginning of the end for Cake. Big corporations buy and sell divisions just for the exercise. Harsh, but true. I knew it was an omen when my account got fouled up and the forum thinks I'm a new user with almost no post count. Bapu would be in chills and sweats by now.

Who's left to fix my account? Willie?...Brandon?...Seth?....Anybody? Tap, tap, tap,..... Is this thing on?