Stephen Seth Ankrum

Yes and start making prochannel modules again

Can audiosnap have a more streamlined intuitive suited towards manipulation of things like heavy guitars,especially palm muted parts and "chugging" parts,like an algorithim specifically able to that

Many could disagree but I dont find it easy or intuitive to use audiosnap especially when the need for precise palm muting is paramount

Yes please! I really want this feature added!

12 hours ago, MicroLightVideos said:

Hi, I'm an older guy itching to make music using Bandlab, and am struggling to do some of the simplest things that are apparently not explained in the tutorials.  Is there anyone skilled at using it with midi keyboard, drum loops and guitar who I can hire for an hour or two to talk me through getting started?   I'm using Steinberg UR 22 USB Audio Interface to bring guitar and mike into the computer through a USB port.  

I'm imagining that you could either be on the phone with me while both of us having the program open, or do a screen sharing session?  I'd love some help!   Darren

email me themartyrstephen@gmail.com

On 12/22/2018 at 2:37 PM, Lee D said:

Maybe they'll eventually release Rapture Pro. . . that would be a good option because it had a ton of content of all sorts.

yea it sucks i cant use them now, same with zeta, that is an awesome synth

17 hours ago, abacab said:

What you don't understand is the business side of this. Those DAWs + Logic Pro X create a significant barrier to entry for newcomers to the Mac market.  Remember that they are already extremely popular DAWs that are already coded for the Mac and don't need additional millions $$$ invested for cross platform development (basically a re-write of the entire code base) to even begin marketing to Mac users. 

Cakewalk was barely rescued from the dustbin of history after being questionably successful in the Windows only market (rumor has it that it lost money for many recent years for its prior owners), and so it would be a huge marketing and development risk to go there commercially.  Cakewalk on Windows is a mature technology that apparently requires minimum development to maintain in its current platform. Giving it away to Windows users has the potential to open up other marketing opportunities for its new owners.

For the Mac market, Cakewalk would  have to become more popular and appealing than the competition to succeed commercially in the long term.  And if you would just plan to just give a Mac version away?  How would you recoup the huge investment in development for a Mac version?

Technical reality and business reality don't always coincide.  So don't misunderstand me, I am not against doing this by any means.  I have invested 20 years of my life into learning Cakewalk tools, and I would certainly love to see it flourish everywhere. But I am sure that the reality is not as simple as some may wish.  At the end of the day if you are running a business, you still need to pay your employees and creditors, and hopefully turn a profit for your investors.

Giving it away might attract people to try it, but judging from how many people join their forum and the cakewalk facebook user groups I would say its not working.The whole code thing sucks and wish they had written it differently.I use logic but only logic but only started like 3 years ago when my pc broken had no money and my wife surprised me with a mac, she didnt as me what i wanted.I would gladly be using cakewalk if it was mac

I use log

16 hours ago, abacab said:

What you don't understand is the business side of this. Those DAWs + Logic Pro X create a significant barrier to entry for newcomers to the Mac market.  Remember that they are already extremely popular DAWs that are already coded for the Mac and don't need additional millions $$$ invested for cross platform development (basically a re-write of the entire code base) to even begin marketing to Mac users. 

Cakewalk was barely rescued from the dustbin of history after being questionably successful in the Windows only market (rumor has it that it lost money for many recent years for its prior owners), and so it would be a huge marketing and development risk to go there commercially.  Cakewalk on Windows is a mature technology that apparently requires minimum development to maintain in its current platform. Giving it away to Windows users has the potential to open up other marketing opportunities for its new owners.

For the Mac market, Cakewalk would  have to become more popular and appealing than the competition to succeed commercially in the long term.  And if you would just plan to just give a Mac version away?  How would you recoup the huge investment in development for a Mac version?

Technical reality and business reality don't always coincide.  So don't misunderstand me, I am not against doing this by any means.  I have invested 20 years of my life into learning Cakewalk tools, and I would certainly love to see it flourish everywhere. But I am sure that the reality is not as simple as some may wish.  At the end of the day if you are running a business, you still need to pay your employees and creditors, and hopefully turn a profit for your investors.

I hear you and agrees dont agree with the whole free thing personally, and not sure how they can grow without charging for it, adding synths and effects, and making a mac version.Your right about it not being simple and I know it would be a significant financial investment for band lab

They should charge for it, never should have made it free

On 12/23/2018 at 10:01 AM, abacab said:

I'm afraid that might be the bottom line.  You might be able to give away a CbB for Mac, but I doubt you could sell against Logic Pro X, which at $199 is sort of a no-brainer if you have a Mac. 

Just for reference, Apple owns Logic, and Apple is currently the most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of $926 billion USD. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263264/top-companies-in-the-world-by-market-value/

I'm sure that this discussion will continue until @Meng says, "(a) no way Jose", "(b) maybe, we should look into it further", or "(c) we'll definitely give it a shot"!

what i dont understand about that is reason/cubase,studio one,ect,ect sell plenty to mac users

14 hours ago, Jack Hawk said:

As I understand it, CbB still does not come with all the bell and whistles that Splat did... various plugins and such.  If Someone wanted to move to a new PC, what would be the best way to get Splat installed on the system prior to installing CbB? I didn't think the old Cakewalk Download Manager left any files behind after install, and that's likely not working anymore. I'm not looking to do anything in the near future, but at some point it may be something I wish to do and would love to retain the original Splat install if possible...

 

Thank You

My hope is that they will eventually start adding more content/plugins 

4 minutes ago, Kev said:

They developed a Mac version of Sonar and released a prototype in 2017 before abandoning the idea. It was made available as a free download. Apparently it is still available here:
http://www.cakewalk.com/products/sonar-mac-prototype

Discussion about it can be found here:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/m3593807.aspx

They did, and I was so excited, but the issue is it won't be updated or worked on, those who want a mac version want the full deal

What kind of effects are looking for?

Kind of off topic but what about dimension pro,rapture,the ca-2a,are they all gone?

I agree also,really bummed me out they didn't/couldnt make a Mac version.Not because mac is better,I own and use both, but because it would take cakewalk to the next level and give so many musicians the chance to see how amazing it is.Im no expert on code, so I in no way mean to brush aside how difficult it might be to re-write such a complex program, but I wonder whose Idea that was to write it so it tightly with windows libraries(again I dont know code).I wonder how much money and time would it require?Would the sales and growth make up for those expenses?I fell like it would, but then again its free right now so maybe its not possible for them to do that.

Hope that makes sense

These are great ideas,prochannel is one of my favorite features