Misha

Not sure if it is the right place, but since Cakewalk is getting integrated with Bandlab's main music site I would like to make a suggestion... or observation. Seems to me the main music site is a bit of Wild West now. There almost no complaints of design or features, but.... I feel like many people who post there taking it for granted. There is a bit of chaos as far as the quality of uploaded tracks and content. I am a hobbyist myself, not a professional in any way, and I do get it when people have passion but not the skills, but this is something else. When people just record some drunk party laughing on their phone and post it as a "track" , I just do not have time for this. Or when one tries to inject same song 20 times just to get "hits" - no respect for this. Or rap boys/girls trying to stick their "hot" songs with language that can give a heart attacks to elderly into categories which are completely not related to the genre...that also turns my attention away from the site. There is nothing wrong with Hip Hop / Rap, but it got to be in the proper section, so as some of other, deliberately misplaced genres, unless listener "prefers" shuffle. Good songs, that people put heart and soul into just get lost. Sometimes I would have to listen to 20 songs just to reach the tune that someone put some thought into. By the way, I am a diverse listener. I can listen to anything from Classical to Rap to Jazz to Folk if it is interesting regardless if it was made in 500k studio or recorded with phone by the camp fire. Moderated or not, I think it would be wise to take some control over some matters to bring more listeners and talented musicians, who I think might be staying shy for the reasons stated above. I am not a specialist in these matters, but one suggestion might be to expand "Showcase". For example if performer gets 10-25 likes for composition, it gets moved to a showcase. Sort of: Workshop----->Showcase------>Stars structure. Thanks.

Chord based arranger. Not just for typing chords to play loops or clips... But actual arranger. Similar to Yamaha Mobile arranger, which is sadly only for ios and if I am not mistaken it has not been updated in few years. However, this is the most easiest to use software arranger (chord based) with some pretty complex features I have tried up till today. I would love to see "in house" Bandlab arranger, but on the other hand, maybe it is simpler and better to partner up with somebody who has experience with such things and can make a much more interesting module than just "chord track" and do it in form of VST tailored for Cakewalk at reasonable "plugin" price. Just thoughts

For me, about 1/2 of the joy in music recording comes from workflow. Cakewalk gave me that. I was very saddened late 2017.., and tried several DAW's trying to compensate ailing friend with Studio One, Reaper, Cubase and a few others. I learn fast, but these were not the programs that I liked. I came back to using my old Cakewalk and figured it should last "as is" 5 years easily... and who knows how technology will evolve? I am glad I stayed, not jumping around like a flea. Cakewalk does 110% of what I need to do. It is clean, it is fast. It gets updated regularly. Forum is a gem. Oh yes, this amazing DAW is free! In the big picture, the only request is to have an offline installer. Or at least be able to properly backup installed version, so in case something gets updated not to liking, I can "go back" to previous version. One more request....stay enthusiastic. You are doing a great job! Thank you!

Not sure if it is a question or a request... When old forum will be locked from making new posts, what will happen with "user participated" links? For example, if I want to access threads that I participated in old forum, I can access them now by a single link.. Link would look something like this: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Profile/123456789 Will this type of "Profile" link remain active when old forum will be locked? If "search post by member" will be gone on old forum, I would like to request to make "my posts" access from old forum available on this. Let me explain. I asked some questions which had pretty complex and interesting answers, which I revisit at times. Sort of my "personalized" manual. So one thing is to search among dozen of my own posts vs thousands... I hope that makes sense.

Ok, that is understandable. Than a suggestion perhaps... To people who use both Bandlab main site and Cakewalk to have a link in Bandlab main site to this forum after they sign in. Sort of: If you subscribed to forum----->here is your link. Sorry for shuffling questions.... So this will be the main link: discuss.cakewalk.com or it will be migrated to cakewalk.com ?

Hi folks! How to you access this forum from bandlab.com site? Or maybe the question should be: is possible to access this forum through bandlab.com main page? P.S. Forum looks pretty good. Thank you Meng & Bakers! Thank you, Misha.

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