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1 hour ago, Jeremy Oakes said:

You might want to check out the first post here about the new update to v084 which takes care of your issue. 

Thanks for the reminder 🫡

As a longtime Sonar user and supporter, i lost some of my trust in the recent actions of the owner. I want Cakewalk to stay here, of course i'll support them, when i get the feeling they offer a good and trustfull platform. I think some others are feeling the same. That's why i/we criticised this splash screen, cause it gives me some fishy vibes.

After this update they showed me, they're listening, which is a good sign👌. Keep doing great work bakers, thx for evrything!

7 hours ago, Jeremy Oakes said:

You’re complaining about a minor issue for a free DAW ???

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Yes i am, as my time is precious and i cannot wait 15 seconds everytime some project is crashing to get access to my music.

But again, if you are fine with it its ok, im rolling back to Sonar Platinum now and find my peace.

2 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

It's free, with a cost.

Yeah, its irritating to wait so long though 😉

Anyway, it seems to not bother many people.

Thats unfortunate. Can you consider to change this in a future update? I have no problem to get that screen, just let me immidiately decide. If for examle something crashes, which was the case yesterday and i tried to reload my project many times (to find out whats wrong), i had everytime to wait 15 seconds till i can continue my work.

Feels a bit like  the "Common People" episode in Black Mirror 😐

This is a very dumb video, because he is comparing the Fabfilter for 150 Dollars with a 30 Dollar plugin (no one is buying Waves plugins for regular pricetags). Aside from that you can write your automation and correct it pretty easy, so you have more control over your results. Nothing against Fabfilter, its an awesome tool, but calling Vocal Rider a useless waste of money ist straight up wrong.

2 hours ago, antler said:

I converted to Studio One when it was announced Sonar was discontinued and Presonus offered a crossgrade price. I don't regret my choice with starting with Cakewalk though: it was the best choice for me at the time, I picked up transferable DAW skills, and I got to know this forum. Had I started with another DAW, I'd probably still have spent as much in total, but I might not have stumbled upon this helpful community.

I was thinking about Studio One  but lost interesst when they started to treat subscriction customers different then regular buyers. But Studio One looks awesome featurewise.

21 hours ago, Bapu said:

I paid for one month. I just cancelled my subscription and I'll not subscribe again. If I need to open a .cwp I'll do so with CbB as long as it lives, and after that I'll reinstall SPlat. I'll come back to the "family home" if they offer a perpetual license.

My goal is to convert all necessary .cwp file into Studio One

The inability of the dev team, to give existing users a honest and straight answer since one year, is pretty dissapointing. Every thread about this topic ends with "thats not the place to discuss it". I started with Sonar 6 Producer and now i'm regretting all my time i've invested into Cakewalk. Going Reaper now and for old projects i'll do the same as you, keep CbB and SPlat installed. Will never look back again. Thanks to all the supportive people here on this forum.  ?

7 hours ago, CSistine said:

Related to license security Reaper is surely the best alternative. You get your license as a file that you have to add to the installation, completely offline. This means you are able to install Reaper (the versions you have a license for) on any new replacement pc in the future! Also a license includes two major number of updates, that corresponds to several years! If you are not a professional, then the license (life time) is only $60.

In addition Reaper has an immense functionality (almost everything you could wish): ARA2, batch processing, customized plugin folders, customized menus, customized functions, is super efficient, is super solid, custom themes, ..., and almost everything CbB can do (except PC, Arranger, Aim-Assist and Radius stretching).

Thanks for your advice. I´ll try it out.

I´m very sad about my decision, but i want control over the software i´m using, look for example what Adobe is doing now with its subscribers of Photoshop. Things like that are the reason to leave my beloved DAW behind me.

As long as everything is in the dark, i'll keep my CbB and Platinum alive, and start learning an alternative Software in case they never decide for perpetual licenses. I'm leaning towards Reaper, S1 or Cubase, although S1 started doing some dumb things lately. I just, want, to have steady support and, the posibility to keep my paid software, without abonnements. What would be a good alternative/supplement to Cakewalk?

Check if your samplepath is doubled on the settings. I had the same issue and deleting the copy was the solution. 

2 hours ago, njm255 said:

I would think a business calculates that more people would pay the cheaper subscription price than the higher perpetual license price. So in actuality the number of buyers would be lower than the number of subscribers. Also you'd have to take into account the length of a subscription. Will it be month to month where you can drop at any time or are you locked in for the year? Not to mention a lot of people forget they're even subscribed and will still be getting charged even if they don't use the product anymore. It's not really as simple as you say and subscriptions obviously are profitable because all these companies are moving in that direction. The corporate world won't waste time and energy on something that won't bring back a profit.

Bandlab's main goal is most likely to draw more people into the Bandlab ecosystem hence why this initial Sonar release is tied into a Bandlab subscription instead of being a separate release.  Perpetual licenses won't do that. We'll find out eventually.

I get your reasoning. But why not both? Why not try to grab the audience, which wants to own a piece of software like myself and try to gather the others with a subscription plan?

Just look into all the services you have to pay for nowadays: An average person has Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify/Apple/Youtube, Console Online Plan, then maybe something like Photoshop, UAD, Plugin Alliance, Distrokid, Office 365, Gym, and many more things.  Now we are witnessing everyone getting greedy and trying to get some of your money too. Either they're raising the prices, cutting features, or introduce the userbase to upgrade plans, while new competitors enter the market with their own services. I was very open to all of this, to a certain degree, but now not anymore. We reached the point of oversaturation and i'd rather buy something, if i need it, then pay them a pile of my hard earned money every month, till i cancel the service and lose access to everything.

I´ll just wait and see what happens next with Cakewalk. I´m still owning Sonar Platinum,  X1 and older versions and can use them for older projects. So if they´re really going the subscription only route i´m sadly out. Thinking about changing to Reaper or Studio One (maybe someone has a reccomendation for me), but i'm hoping that will not be the case. 

9 hours ago, John Vere said:

Guy walking trough a Saturday afternoon Farmers Market sees an artist painting a picture and stops to ask him about it. 
“I like your painting is it for sale? “

“No I’m not finished yet. “ 

“Ok but when it’s finished how much will it cost?” 

“ I don’t know until it’s finished . And I’m thinking I might rent this one in the Gallery art rental program.  I can sometimes make a nice steady income from that.” 
 

“But I don’t want to rent it, I prefer to buy it from you, but only if I like the price.” 
 

“Ahh, see you already are offering me less money than it’s worth and haven’t even told you what I think that is?” This is why I think I’m better off renting it. That way more people will enjoy my painting and I’ll have a monthly income for a long time.

If I sell it to you when it’s finished, you will want a bargain and I’ll be sad and probably spend that money all at once in the bar.  I’ll have no money later on.”

The man walked away and bought a ugly framed print  from WalMart. He didn’t like the ugly cheap painting very much but he was proud because he owed it outright. 

You cannot compare piece of art with a software for music creation. That's not how it works. You could compare it with buying a movie on Bluray vs. get a Netflix subscribtion to watch that particular movie.

Yep, i´m supporting him. Mike was my primary tutorial source during the Cakewalk by Bandlab days. And come on guys, do not act, like we are in war against other DAW´s, that´s not fair. Just be glad, that you have many good ways to create your music ?.

22 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Summer Games Miami does indeed capture the vintage game vibe!  A fun happy tune. 

Thanks a lot, i appreciate it! ?

11 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Or maybe it's time to Just Say No! (to GM)!  ?  Seriously, GM is so 1980s! 

If you need that kind of aesthetic, TTS was the answer  

I used it extentively in that track, where i tried to capture 80's/90's games ost:

Thanks people, i'm honored by your kind words ?. I hope you'll like my future projects too. Greetings! 

THX treesha, i appreciate your feedback^^

Here is the first track of our Xylakis EP "Steig Ein!!" by SVSX

If someone here used Beatscape in the past, you maybe recognise the sample this song is based on. 

https://youtu.be/m0vF_qpI9Ik

I hope you enjoy it!

Really great EQ like every TDR product. Bought the whole package of them whithout regreting.

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

I still am using the Sonitus delay but I am searching for the perfect replacement. Sonitus is DX and unsupported. Very old code.  One day you'll try and open a project and it might crash.

I understand your concerns, but i personally wouldn't rule out a plugin just because its old. As long as it works, you'll be fine and as you said, you can allways bounce a track copy for security reasons.

Nevermind, i got another tipp for you: Check the 2BPlayed website, they got the 2B Delayed Classic for free at checkout, with a code. Its a stereo delay like Sonitus. Maybe this is the right one for your usage.

I'm just curious, but why are you trying to replace Sonitus? On my new PC they're still working fine and real gems.

Besides Melodyne (witch is awesome for this case), i can recommend Debess from Airwindows (works only with 44.1 and 48 kHz samplerate recordings, because it's kind of filtering the high frequency samples out) and Waves Sibilance. These two are as transparent as possible. Not perfect, but very good! 

I still use all 3 of them sometimes. Adaptive Limiter is on almost every mastering project.

22 hours ago, User 905133 said:

I remember this came up before and since I have a few Workspaces that use two monitors, I gave it a try.  Not 100% sure of if I remember why it worked for me and not the person with the problem. I'd have to find the thread and reconstruct what I did. BUT: I vaguely recall that I had the main Cakewalk views on Monitor 1 and an undocked/floating MultiDock including the Console View on Monitor 2. I don't recall if I had tabbed plug-ins in the MultiDock or if they were in floating windows.

I believe  there was an issue someone else had because the person wanted the main Cakewalk View set up to cover two monitors and not the way I did it.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "I have Track view on main (left) monitor, and Console view on second (right) monitor?"

UPDATE: In this thread one user had a feature request for the single contiguous Cakewalk spread across two monitors configuration:

If that's what you are doing (or want to do), my floating window is not what you want.   

Yep, the plugin behavior is one of the reasons, why i asked the CW-team to implement more customisation options for multiple screens on Skylight.