Jgillilan
Hmm - anybody using a controller with BandLab? Do you guys think after being sold and passed around Cakewalk is doomed?
You can use any controller... Including OSC based apps, even without rtpMIDI. 2013 there was no AZController
There was no changes in native controllers support during last 10 years, in fact more then that. Roland has tried with own and had no success for several reasons. All these devices had questionable price/value ratio, old Edirol interfaces which never was on top was re-packed without changes, but for extra components, which was not bad, Roland as usual has asked too much. Any device is only as good as the worse component in it, so the combination in specification and functionality was more like "low end".
I personally think Cakewalk was doomed after Sonar 8. CbB is still just Sonar 8, facelifted and inaccurately hacked at many places. All new features luck "integrity", f.e. none of them can be controlled from surfaces. On positive side, CbB has much less bugs then early X1-X2.