Yep. I bet I could even get the rules changed if I wanted to, by clogging up the software forum with threads about other DAWs but I wouldn't do that. I gave an opinion and you are freaked out. 

backwoods
Yep. I bet I could even get the rules changed if I wanted to, by clogging up the software forum with threads about other DAWs but I wouldn't do that. I gave an opinion and you are freaked out. 

From the moment you point your finger at me saying that I shouldn't be allowed here, I feel welcome to call you on it. Whether you call that freaking out is irrelevant. 
 
The mods have already gave their blessings to this threads and to its participants, very explicitly. In effect, you are clogging this forum by making it about you and how you think things should be.
 
99% of the posts on this forum are plug-in related. In fact, the latest thread about another DAW was created by Mr. Anderton.
 
 
 
 
 
 

I'm not saying you shouldn't be here at all. I am saying you shouldn't be allowed to talk about other DAWs if you don't even use Cakewalk's DAW. Big difference. Anderton uses Sonar.
 
Yiou could still post all your poictures about yourself and whatnot for the pleasure of the community. 
 
I  already said I shouldn't have made that flippant aside earlier and I apologize tpo modbod for that it was out of order.
 
anyway, for the sake of peace and quiet I will bow out now.

backwoods
I'm not saying you shouldn't be here at all. I am saying you shouldn't be allowed to talk about other DAWs if you don't even use Cakewalk's DAW. Big difference. Anderton uses Sonar.
 
Yiou could still post all your poictures about yourself and whatnot for the pleasure of the community. 
 
I  already said I shouldn't have made that flippant aside earlier and I apologize tpo modbod for that it was out of order.

Well, thankfully, your totalitarian point of view doesn't get a say in it and you don't get to decide who talks about what.
 
That you apologize to Dave is nice but it doesn't make up for your ****ing remarks about me, you self-righteous attitude and your dismissive tone in regards to my posts.
 
Funny that me posting pics "for the pleasure of the community" annoys you so much when you'd have an entire forum set to follow your own dictatorship of who says what where. Speaking of being self-centered...
 
I cordially invite you to block me if my posts and the pictures I post because I annoy you. That's the grown up thing to do, because my posts do not infringe the TOS, and many people seem to like to interact. I have many good friends around here and I'm not about to change the content of my posts and the nature of my online friendship with them to please you.

Anderton
If someone has nothing to do with Cakewalk software and comes into Cakewalk forums to discuss other software, at best that seems peculiar, and at worst, downright rude.

It's not at all peculiar or rude, at least in the case of some of us, IMO.  SONAR was my primary DAW for some time.  But it no longer is (and I didn't buy the X3 upgrade).  That doesn't mean that I won't return to SONAR at some point, but I'm making essentially zero use of it at the moment.
 
However, in the all the time I did use SONAR and spent much time here, I got to know a number of folks who, although we've never met face to face, I regard as old friends.  Coming to the CW forum, and the Software forum in particular, is usually one of the more pleasant activities of the day.
 
So, I may be taking a bit of advantage of CW's generosity in coming to this forum, but hopefully I occasionally contribute something useful to others here that "pays for my board".  I'd really be stung if the consensus opinion was that that kind of behavior exemplified rudeness.  I'm pretty sure there are at least a handful of other regulars who are pretty much in the same boat.

Rain
99% of the posts on this forum are plug-in related. In fact, the latest thread about another DAW was created by Mr. Anderton.

Actually it was about Vegas, a video editing program, which is at least for now not competitive with SONAR. Nor do I "bless" this thread; I don't object to it or think it's great. It's a freakin' thread in an internet forum. I thought the main point of this thread was about the usefulness, or lack therefore, of whatever the VCA thing is.
 
Personally, I would never go into a forum for software I don't use or own, any more than I would crash a party where I didn't know the host. 

dmbaer

Anderton
If someone has nothing to do with Cakewalk software and comes into Cakewalk forums to discuss other software, at best that seems peculiar, and at worst, downright rude.

It's not at all peculiar or rude, at least in the case of some of us, IMO.  SONAR was my primary DAW for some time.  But it no longer is (and I didn't buy the X3 upgrade).  That doesn't mean that I won't return to SONAR at some point, but I'm making essentially zero use of it at the moment.
 
However, in the all the time I did use SONAR and spent much time here, I got to know a number of folks who, although we've never met face to face, I regard as old friends.  Coming to the CW forum, and the Software forum in particular, is usually one of the more pleasant activities of the day.
 
So, I may be taking a bit of advantage of CW's generosity in coming to this forum, but hopefully I occasionally contribute something useful to others here that "pays for my board".  I'd really be stung if the consensus opinion was that that kind of behavior exemplified rudeness.  I'm pretty sure there are at least a handful of other regulars who are pretty much in the same boat.

But you've just proven my point - you DO have something to do with Cakewalk software. You've used it, you've participated in the forums, you know people here, and of course, one day you'll come to your senses and go back to using SONAR full-time. 
 
True, and recent, story: I have a friend who works at another company in the industry. He was a SONAR user but jumped off around 8.5. Well, he wanted to test a plug-in the company makes with X3, so I set him up with a copy for testing. A few days later, he sent me an email and said "What was I thinking?!?!? I've gotten more done in the past few days with SONAR then in the last few months of using [DAW I am enough of a gentleman not to mention]!!" Oh, and the plug-in works fine. 
 

I have noticed for myself that I actually get a lot out of the people here on the forum that use multiple top tier DAW's
it could be that they may already have the wisdom to know the difference  …..
need I say more ? 
 
Kenny

Anderton
 
But you've just proven my point - you DO have something to do with Cakewalk software. You've used it, you've participated in the forums, you know people here, and of course, one day you'll come to your senses and go back to using SONAR full-time. 

 
I don't know of anyone involved in this thread who has nothing to do w/ Cakewalk software. For the record, my first DAW was Guitar Studio, way back in 99 or 2k. It's still not entirely out of the question that I install Sonar X on my laptop, even just for the sake of retrieving old projects.
 
Though I have moved to a different platform altogether in 2010, I'm still occasionally helping out people who are starting out making music on their PC w/ Sonar. Because I know the basics and I've read the old manual countless times, and hanged around here for so long. I may not be entirely up to date, but I still have a background to assist them.
 
As a matter of fact, I don't know how many buddies like that I've turned onto Sonar in the last 10 or 12 years. 
 
When I have questions about Logic, I look up in the manual, watch a tutorial or go to the Logic forum. Pro Tools, same thing.  Me, I come here mainly for the Software, Deals and Coffee House, and occasionally Instruments. None of that is exclusive.
 
I really don't see what's odd in anyone hanging around here even if they're using nothing but Cakewalk's LA-2A plug-in. 
 
There are some very knowledgeable folks hanging in many of the sub-forums here, people I'm glad to know I can ask questions too even though we're not using the same DAW. 
 

Personally, if this gestapo like attitude of not mentioning other products that many of us have and use just so we can continue to contribute to a Cakewalk forum about music software in general, were to drive the likes of Rain away, firstly this forum would be demonstrably devalued and secondly I think MANY people would give up on it. period
What has got into people - this is a forum where other software is discussed, is it not.
This is only of BENEFIT to Cakewalk and Cakewalk users. If something like VCA is discussed,  it can only be a good thing, surely?
I had a horrible feeling when the reorganization and hosts etc were recently introduced that it would be a bad thing - seems my fears may well have been  correct.