I was dozing off a minute ago when something came to me:-
GOOD -  what if we have not heard much from Cakewalk lately because they are working on something NEW......
BAD - what if that something new is an iCrap product................
 
Hope that was JUST a bad dream.........

Don't worry, it will wrinkle your skin I hear. LOL

LANEY
Don't worry, it will wrinkle your skin I hear. LOL

iBet they'll fix it with a patch and call it iCeCream.....

Nigel,
 
Surely you MUST understand that iCrap IS the wave of the future...

Everything must become either iCrap or Android...there IS no other way...

Computers are SOOO last week....

I was just listening to a podcast yesterday featuring our own IK Obi, where the topic was recording via iOS apps. I listened for half an hour as the participants gushed about the new world that iOS was enabling, one in which music can be created anywhere, any time, by anybody.
 
Most of the discussion, however, was how to get around the limitations of iOS and iPhones and how to get iPhone-generated audio and MIDI into your computer so you could actually do something with it. Apparently the best solution today is to email your iPhone tracks to yourself.
 
What they never explained was why the heck they so badly want this to work, that they're willing to jump through so many hoops to achieve it? Well, Obi's rationale is obvious, his employer wants to sell stuff. But the moderators were real studio guys who I presume would understand the severe limitations of a studio-less studio.

Bit,
 
I guess that's the thing...so you've recorded it on your phone....BIG DEAL...
Laptops are FAR more efficient at this....oh..but they're slightly bigger...I guess
that's the problem...how about using a portable digital recorder...oh..but that would
mean that you'd have to carry that AND your phone...
And then, once you've recorded on iCrap you send to yourself via an email, then import 
it into your DAW and NOW you can do something with it....

Seems quite a bit on the stupid side to me...but that's just me....
I guess because they are marketing to teens and twenties...they're not
bright enough to figure out that there are FAR better ways to do this...

But, what do I know....I've only been doing this for 40 years...I've got a LOT
to learn....

but but you hold the device in your HAND!
 
you stare at the tiny screen and try to swipe/turn/adjust TINY faders with big pudgy fingers!
 
Nevermind the dongles and attachments hanging on to or plugged into your little device getting in the way!
 
Its the wave of the future!! get with it you old curmudgeons.
 

musicman100
but but you hold the device in your HAND!
 
you stare at the tiny screen and try to swipe/turn/adjust TINY faders with big pudgy fingers!
 
Nevermind the dongles and attachments hanging on to or plugged into your little device getting in the way!
 
Its the wave of the future!! get with it you old curmudgeons.
 

Far be it for me to be to try and be serious for a moment, but the old marketing man in me keeps wanting to shout out:-
1) How many people in the WORLD have and use DAW's?
2) How many people in the WORLD have and use phones?
 
For example, where I live for a good part of the year, they reckon everyone on this very small Island (166 sq miles - about 1/6th of the size of the Ponderosa Ranch!!) has TWO phones. Why?? 
 
So instead of making expensive software for people who may or may not like it, recommend it and  buy it, make cheap junk, convince every tom dick and harry they too can make music, sell it DIRT cheap so they don't feel too aggrieved when it doesn't work properly, but sell LOTS OF IT.
 
Just my somewhat jaundiced take on the possible marketing drive behind the iCrap phenomenon
Nigel
 
 
 

Bajan Blue
Far be it for me to be to try and be serious for a moment, but the old marketing man in me keeps wanting to shout out:-
1) How many people in the WORLD have and use DAW's?
2) How many people in the WORLD have and use phones?
 
For example, where I live for a good part of the year, they reckon everyone on this very small Island (166 sq miles - about 1/6th of the size of the Ponderosa Ranch!!) has TWO phones. Why?? 
 
So instead of making expensive software for people who may or may not like it, recommend it and  buy it, make cheap junk, convince every tom dick and harry they too can make music, sell it DIRT cheap so they don't feel too aggrieved when it doesn't work properly, but sell LOTS OF IT.
 
Just my somewhat jaundiced take on the possible marketing drive behind the iCrap phenomenon
Nigel
 
 
 

THIS is EXACTLY why.....it's about MONEY...not about MUSIC....case closed...end of story..bye bye...
That's why I DESPISE IK.....not the products...just the COMPANY...and all the iEverything crowd...
pure stupidity...and THAT is what America and Capitalism is ALL ABOUT!