Id love to see more roland flagship VST's for roland synths and effects. Was am still am a big fan of roland hardware.

My first synth was a Roland. I got a GM-70 (guitar synth) and MKS-50 when the GM-70 first came out. I've had a fair amount of their gear over the years. I currently use the VG-99, GR-55, JP-8080, A300Pro, and Quad-Capture. 

It seems like the upgrades have been priced better since Roland bought cakewalk. I've been upgrading since since cakewalk 3!

Hmmm...   it almost seems as though if one isn't happy with CW's current direction, otherwise known at the X Factor, then one is probably not real happy with Roland's acquisition.    On the other hand, if one likes the  X Factor, then what's not to like about Roland's acquisition?
 
It's a conundrum, a mystery for the ages.    Or maybe.... Roland's acquisition really means little to nothing at this point in time.  Personally, I'm kinda going with that, since I believe CW would have come out with X2 with or without Roland on board.
 

I think the VS-700 says all there needs to be said about Roland. I'm so glad I didn't invest in their flagship DAW accessory. 

Well I think Roland shouldn't have taken over. I would much preferred Tescos or Fresh and easy. That way we could have got free vegetables and plenty of BOGOFF offers.

BTW if Tescos are reading this I am available for shelf stacking...

Happy with the improvements, but I want to see more Pro Channel modules. The amount of modules for Reason's new format blows away what's available for X2. Makes me think that Cakewalk really doesn't have that much of a market share compared to the Props.

rsinger


My first synth was a Roland. I got a GM-70 (guitar synth) and MKS-50 when the GM-70 first came out. I've had a fair amount of their gear over the years. I currently use the VG-99, GR-55, JP-8080, A300Pro, and Quad-Capture. 

It seems like the upgrades have been priced better since Roland bought cakewalk. I've been upgrading since since cakewalk 3!

I had one of those old synths too. It took me a while to buy one of the newer ones because as music is not my main business it is a major investment. I looked at the gr55. it combines the sounds of the gr 20 and the gr33. It may have a few new sounds. I am not really sure. It has some sounds from the vg-99 or so I'm told. 


I already have a pile of line 6 stuff and I got those two guitar synths as well. So basically I would just be buying it for the limited vg-99 sounds and at that price point it is just not worth it to me.

Resonant Order


Happy with the improvements, but I want to see more Pro Channel modules. The amount of modules for Reason's new format blows away what's available for X2. Makes me think that Cakewalk really doesn't have that much of a market share compared to the Props.

+1 on more pro channel modules

I doubt if Roland does much with Cakewalk on a day-to-day basis. Roland's direction has more to do with exploring synergies between the two more than anything. But Roland does have some responsibility for the overall direction that Cakewalk takes, they are, after, the owners of CW.

We're it up to me, I'd like to see CW rethink some of its GUI strategies. This isn't to say the the X series isn't a fine effort, just that are some things in Sonar's GUI that feel out of order. For one, the right-click menu system is all hit-or miss, you never know what you're going to come up with. I would think it's time to explore a more modern code-base, from what I can tell, it's at least 10 years old.

Now, excuse me while I go put on my asbestos underwear...

I also wish that X2 had a smaller GUI version. Would work exactly the same, but you could install one that simply made the gui 30% smaller.