exitthelemming

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It's like a death in the family!

 

No, it really isn't. Only someone who is emotionally r.e.t.a.r.d.e.d. would actually say or believe that. Reality check: A software product you've enjoyed using extensively over a long period of time will no longer be updated. Deal with it. Try googling: Grief counselors for discontinued computer applications re Opcode Vision et al

No need for this. If you don't like the way someone expresses himself about this, you can keep it to yourself, rather than mock someone who's distressed.

After using Cakewalk since 1993. I guess it is time to start looking for a new DAW. Thanks all at Cakewalk for creating such a wonderful software. Hope for the best!

Thanks Noel and the Cakewalk team. 
Thanks to the forum community for contributing and supporting Cakewalk over the many years. 
 I picked up Guitar Studio (12 tones) at my local GC 20 years ago and never looked back. Though I'm a hobbyist, Cake was the 1st to give me outlet for my music and I am very grateful for that. 
Unfortunately, in the end it's just business....I'm keeping my Gibby's......and my Sonar.... they have always sounded so well together! 

danardf
 
Why i bought a update for ever ? i've been stole so?

 
Yeah, I used to feel so great about lifetime updates. 
 
Chris
 

Man.  I was just getting used to Sonar.  I threw my lot in with Sonar after Sony bought and iced Acid.  Boy can I pick 'em.
 
But seriously, Sonar is awesome.  Is there anything else that really compares?  Who else has comparable timing correction like the transient snapping?  Where do I go now?  Ugh.

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OK, It's been about a day now and I still can't believe this. Surely Cakewalk can't just die. I hope so much that someone rescues it. If not, then I hope something really good comes out of it. Like the bakers get together and develop a brand new, amazing DAW. Either way, Gibson will curl up into a ball and die and hopefully rot away with no one putting any flowers on its grave. I always hated Gibson with a passion since I was a kid. I might have known they would screw up my favorite DAW.

A lot of ragging here these last few days about Gibson, like that's where the blame trail leads to ?
Let's not forget the entire music industry is having the rug pulled out from underneath.
Technology and innovation have changed the way Gibson has done business for a very long time, they just haven't adapted quickly enough. I don't buy guitars anymore, I buy sampled guitars. Portable studio on a mobile phone ?
No need for wired devices, even speakers can be wireless.
Mostly, sad to see the end of Cakewalk was probably some corporate decision, by folks who aren't musicians.
 
I read Noel's original post announcement again this afternoon, and noticed he used the word "transition"
So maybe there's some hope there will be something to transition to.
 . . . but at the pace technology is moving, no one is going to wait around very long.

space_cowboy

azslow3
30 years.... too young to die 
 

 

azslow3
 
Pro tools has been in business only 19 years
 

Brutal, I feared this day may come the moment I heard that Gibson was taking over I wish all of the loyal employees and users safe travels.  Oh and Gibson I will never buy another product that you sell endorse or have anything to do with 
 
 
 
 
 
profanity removed.

There's ragging on Gibson, because Gibson is a terrible company from a management perspective.  They have some fabulous people working for Gibson, but the management at Gibson are complete morons.  Yes the economics of the day have ravaged the music merchant industry.   NAMM is a shell of what it once was.  Having said that, I know folks that work at DW, and that work for Behringer Music Group, and while those guys are struggling to, they treat their employees like family.  They have also for the most part stuck to their core business.
 
The stuff on Glassdoor about Gibson isn't an accident.  It's the result of a flailing company who has forgotten who they are, and have tried to branch out in areas where they have no expertise and then gather more debt, and run those subsidiaries into the ground.  The employees have been suffering and Gibson has created a toxic work environment while at the same time bleeding their stockholders dry.
 
Gibson had no business buying Cakewalk in the first place, or Onkyo or any of the other ventures they got into that sullied their core business.  The Gibson name has heritage and will survive this mess, but their CEO is a complete idiot, who put them in this mess that they are in.

Lots of threads around yesterday's events.  Not sure where to ask the question, but I was going to buy a new DAW machine this week and reinstall SPlat.  The servers are still on, so is this still doable?  I plan on keeping the machine off the Net so there (probably) won't be any authentication issues.  I'll still have to figure out how to access Native Access, etc....