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10 hours ago, Bapu said:

I have three threads delete in the last two week.

Pfft. Amateur hour.......

You haven't even got any made-up perma-warnings yet! ?

8 hours ago, Fret Flintstone said:

I think BMD had way to many sub forums for it's own good.

I understand why they did that, but yeah, given the very low forum traffic I think it probably fragmented the conversation too much.

19 minutes ago, PopStarWannabe said:

You'd be astounded by my past achievements,

Probably not.

Whatever you want to call those who aspire to be pro, it's never really been that viable an option for most of them anyway.

8 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Ask our good friend Notes Norton.

But whatever you do, don't ask craigb..........?

As for the question.......Has it ever really been a viable option for most "wannabes" ? Social distancing doesn't help, but it's not the reason why most won't ever make a decent living from just making music. 

How ironic - a song about polarisation that only some people are permitted to listen to ! 

22 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

I Hear he is more into cucumbers  ?

Only on Tuesdays apparently.

2 hours ago, bayoubill said:

Well At least 100 times

28 minutes ago, Bapu said:

 I hear 50?

Try taking the banana out of the other ear.?

5 hours ago, RobertWS said:

By comparison, all of today's music sucks.

Not a Belieber then?

3 hours ago, Michael Vogel said:

While I had a vision that it could be much much more, unfortunately I was never in a position to have direct dialogue with any decision makers. Simply stated, not a single one of my requests to engage in dialogue was ever answered. 

A great shame that they didn't recognise this and then went on to make the same mistake all over again.

Not sure what those other guys are laughing at. I think they must be somehow misreading what I said in a way that makes it funny to their twisted minds.

?

9 hours ago, Michael Vogel said:

I was the Host who oversaw that particular part of the forum

Thank you for sharing the contents of your folder.

Not everyone would have done that.

3 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

How much pull do the clownies have?

Quite a lot if someone puts them in charge.?

I wonder if this is one of the pies that craigb can remember ?

He remembers a lot of pies.

2 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

I haven't seen it happen in CbB but I avoid the Pro Chan like the plague. I never trusted it after all that with X1 and X2.

As I said, it might be something that I do without realising. I watched X1/X2 from the sidelines only as it didn't seem to be going well. Bought back in at X3 mainly because of Melodyne ARA integration which justified the offered upgrade price all by itself.

4 hours ago, marled said:

This reminds me of myself!

It happens that I have not selected the track I thought. It has to do with the not-evident selection system in CbB/Sonar. The difference between selected and active is sometimes hard to see during the work! ... or I mean I miss it.

There is definitely room for improvement with the logic surrounding which track is in focus. One of my pet hates is that if I select to unfreeze a synth by pressing the freeze/unfreeze button, once it has done it' s thing it will revert to whatever the last track I had selected as the "focused" one and show me that. If I've unfrozen a track there's a fairly good chance that it's because I want to work on it, so the focus should automatically become that one. I can't think of a reason why I would unfreeze a track and then want to immediately go back to the previous track.

13 hours ago, Zo said:

Waiting for the go oustide edition

Might be a long wait.?

On 3/20/2021 at 7:32 PM, Shane_B. said:

The Pro Channel would shut up randomly all by itself. That's why I stopped using it originally.

Yeah, I cold swear that it switches itself off sometimes.

But then again, that might be me as I find myself adjusting the eq or compression for the wrong track and wondering why it's not making any difference more often than I should.

All the ones that have (The) before the name should be disqualified unless they are an answer to what T stands for.

8 hours ago, Fret Flintstone said:

J is for John?

This guy.........?

2 hours ago, abacab said:

The Lonely Island - I'm On A Boat ft. T-Pain

Sort of, but that boat there would be more like the one he uses just to get from the shore to his boat. ?

3 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

Me think you have been watching too much TV  ? 

No. TV has been watching Meng. ?

2 minutes ago, Bapu said:

Agreed. Let Noel et. al. be the face and spokespersons for CbB. The business model is already in place and has not changed all these years on.

I was thinking more along the lines of being on his super yacht wearing diamond-studded, platinum flip flops and very expensive shades, surrounded by the kind of ladies that even S.L.I.P. dare not dream about, but yeah that too.

If you must.

11 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

I always wonder if Meng takes the time to read these threads;

Given the size of his piggy bank, I'd be very disappointed in him indeed if he didn't always have something better to do than visit the CH.

41 minutes ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

I fully understand a lot of the underlying negative connotations this thread is harbouring, but … 

Remember how Roland's acquisition of Twelve Tone spawned a plethora of 'prophet-of-doom' commentators who saw the move as little more than Mr Hendershott 'selling out' to the big boys. Overall, we may not all have agreed with the direction Roland took Cakewalk, but surely it can be seen in retrospect that the resultant investment helped streamline and improve the product range?

Even though nobody could argue that the nay-sayers got it absolutely spot on with their pessimistic comments regarding Gibson taking over at the helm, their procurement did at least keep the brand alive - for a while anyway.

Putting all this into perspective, look at where we are now with the good folk at Bandlab running things. We still get to use SONAR (now known as Cakewalk ) in pretty much the same form as always (since X1, at least), plus the software is not only maintained, it's being updated and improved along the way.

The fact that it's now free is neither here nor there, although as per another thread that asks the question, I'm certain a good proportion of us would contribute financially if required (regardless of the fact that some of us already had paid for a 'lifetime' of updates as that agreement was with an entity that no longer exists).

In conclusion, questions about the long-term viability of any product will always be asked. But let's be honest, answers from 'outsiders' can only ever be based at best  in educated speculation.

Unless they're about Gibson, of course.

So that's a maybe then?

12 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

It would be a shame if this thread continued.

I've seen far worse.