i live in boston ground zero for cakewalk. and have attended seminars at guitar center , it was great to see the folks where i live who use sonar and i have some great contacts from this yearly event. SO (IMO)since the
staff changes i wonder how il get in on a sonar x2  sessions. or if there will be anymore ever, there is nothing in the list of events at GC, and i havent heard a peep here on the forum.this should have been sent to a staff member, but all the ones i know are gone. anyone ever go to one by the way

I think it would be cool if Roland started inviting some musicians in to a studio to show us all how they  record a session. 

Presonus is doing stuff like that all the time these days and they have some really great musicians stopping by their studio.

The web stream could all be switched live on a Roland streaming video console.

I don't get the impression that Roland cares all that much about Cakewalk.

There's no mention of Cakewalk products on Roland's home page.

And the second sentence of the description of their flagship V-Studio 700 is

"At the heart of the system is SONAR 8 Producer, the leading DAW in the market today. "

I wonder if Roland fears that Cakewalk Touch is a threat to their hardware market. Certainly, I'm looking forward to it instead of a midi controller. I don't think virtual keys will replace a real keyboard ever, but samplers... why not?

Paul P

There's no mention of Cakewalk products on Roland's home page. 

yes there is

http://www.rolandus.com/products/category/497

Loptec, that's not their home page.

Paul P


Loptec, that's not their home page.

oki.. 
which one do you mean then? since there's almost one site for every country...
I guess Japan's site would be the most "real" one, yes?
http://www.roland.co.jp/FrontScene/1211_SONAR_X2/

and here's more..
http://www.roland.com/products/en/goPrd.cfm?sSrchBy=sGrou&gRcid=0000002748

http://roland.se/products/productlist.aspx?c=667

http://www.rolandmusik.de/produkte/categories/software/index.php

...and if you by "home page" mean the first page you get into when you open their site...
well... they do have lots of products...

They still have a staff?

so this will be the end of seminars and just when PT is amping up there turorial seminars in boston sonar fires there best team.any one from sonar willing to chime in.
seminars are by far the best way to get new clients and keep the old ones informed
guess there just sticking with  charging for the books and junk and nothing hands on..
 the books are great but still::::