http://pro.magix.com/en/samplitude/overview.459.html
 
I'm really not sure what I'm missing without having the VCA feature.  $229.00 to get something, that I only vaguely comprehend (and evidently haven't missed) plus some other things like VST3 and better pitch shifting and time stretching.
 
Not feeling this one.  But there is a free 30 day demo.

So....
 
VCA is the new side-chaining, or the new varispeed, or the new VST3.
Only even more marginally useful.
 
I'll stick to my non-HD, non-VCA version of Pro Tools, and Logic's track stack, which does 99% of the VCA stuff.
 

Rain
 
I'll stick to my non-HD, non-VCA version of Pro Tools, <SNIP>f.
 

I'm with you on this one.  I'll track and mix in PT11 and pre-master in Samplitude Pro X.

....and write about it on the Cakewalk forum.

"Software
Discussion focused on non-Cakewalk music software."

Sandmännchen
"Software
Discussion focused on non-Cakewalk music software."

Pardon my intrusion, but read this and had to comment...

This is no longer relevant, as the Forum Hosts now get to decide what is 
permissible, AND even if your grammar is correct apparently, AND EVEN
if the "Deal" you post is "offensive" to Cakewalk...and even 
if they're wrong...they're right....so it doesn't even matter what the rules
or guidelines state...only what the Forum Host "Feels" or "deems"
is "appropriate" and whether or not they are posting as a "forum host"
or a "Forum Participant" which is never obvious in either case, and depending
on "which" they can demean you at their discretion and leisure...

As you were....back to being "Good Cake-ites" and assimilate to the system...

Err... there are no hosts on this thread.  No mods either.  Well, other than the one with a bod.  
 
 

Larry, wtf is wrong with you? Do you have the typing equivalent of Tourette syndrome? You have "left the forum" for good countless times and can't seem to resist the urge to keep repeating the same insane sounding, poorly formed, totally illogical rants OVER AND OVER and damn near word for word as if repeating the same psycho-babble is going to somehow take on new meaning. Every couple months you take some percieved slight and turn it into another misguided one man lunatic party. The forum hosts have done nothing to you. IK has done nothing to you. Cakewalk has done nothing to you but you seem addicted to this bizarre cycyle. Anyone who speaks up is labeled as being shills for " the man" and part of your imaginary problem. I don't want you to leave because I value your contributions when you are not in bat $#! T crazy mode, but either just leave already or stop hijacking threads into your personal manifestations of your delusional persecution complex.

Larry - have you ever been involved in writing, or do you intend to pursue a career in writing, tax literature for the IRS? You have the style down to a tee.

Here's my once and for all disclaim. :P
 
Since I still use Z3ta - and until very recently used and would still be using Dimension Pro and Rapture if they were ported to a more recent OS, I don't feel there's anything out of place in my being an active member here. 
 
Nowhere is it stated that certain parts of the forum are reserved exclusively to users of products and that people who use Cakewalk instruments should be granted access to nothing but the Instruments forum.
 
I do not badmouth Cakewalk products - as a matter of fact, I'm once again toying with the idea of Bootcamp + Sonar on my MacBook. To be honest, what really keeps me from it has a lot more to do with Windows than Cakewalk. Messing with drivers and all is not something I'm anxious to get back to after 4 years of peace of mind.
 
The post was about VCA hosts, and my posting was totally pertinent. Unlike some sarcastic and pointless remarks about my being here which really contribute nothing...
 
Anyway, I've been hanging here since the very beginning of these forums - and on the old Newsgroup before that. That doesn't give me any privilege, but it means that there's a community and people I care for around here, some people I consider friends, as odd as it may sound.
 
As a matter of fact, I've said it loud and clear before that I'm very grateful to Cakewalk for bearing with me even at a time where I didn't use any of their products. I felt it was a privilege and tried to behave accordingly 9most of the time, anyway).
 
So if anyone has a problem with that, let them... :)
 
EDIT - I wrote that for me, but Dave has been around forever as well and always behaved like a true gentleman.