Vince-Noel podcast-not a deal

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https://dawbench.libsyn.com/episode-09-daw-evolution-ii-cakewalk-past-present-future

For those interested. Started listening myself but have to go to a zoom meeting in a few minutes. 

[Bapu]

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[bitflipper]

Thanks for the tip! I have had the pleasure of briefly hanging out with Noel. He is the geek's geek, a kindred spirit for sure.

He should be thankful I'm not his next-door neighbor, as I'd be knocking on his door every day begging for a cup of nerd. Oh, hey, is that your wife practicing piano? Sure, I can stay a bit. If you insist.

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The podcast was very interesting.  I found out Noel was actually offered a job at Bandlab before Bandlab made an offer for Cakewalk and Noel accepted the offer to join Bandlab working on the Bandlab stuff.   Meng then proceeded to acquire Cakewalk from Gibson (Yay!)  Noel and Ben still are here today making CbB one of the best Windows DAW's IMO  

 

[garybrun]

I thought this interview was great.
I was using Cakewalk before Noel joined...   never knew that!!  lol

 

Edited March 6, 2021 by garybrun

[Starship Krupa]

I dug how Noel started as a beta tester and then McLeod'd up. Pondering: if he knew COBOL, he could have cleaned up in 1999 when all the old business apps that were written in COBOL had date rollover issues. COBOL programmers were in short supply.  I wonder if he cashed in on that skillset.