TwelveTone systems' Cakewalk Professional 3 on wine

[Xoo]

7 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I do loves me some flexible configuration ability.

Here you go.

3 PRV tools:

And for each one, you have 5 hit zones on the note, plus background ("nowhere") and controller value, can use 3 mouse buttons and 3 key modifiers (all combinations allowed so 8 * 3 * 5 commands doable without changing tool!):

or if you clicked on a note:

A thing of beauty and power.

[Starship Krupa]

7 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

going back to SPlat now feels like a massive step backwards compared to CbB now

It doesn't seem that way to us old dudes due to time compression, but 4 years is a healthy bit of time in the software development world. Back in the day, that could be a product's entire life cycle. If Cakewalk were being given numeric releases, IMO it would be up to 3.0 at this point.

I wouldn't want to use the first release of CbB. It didn't work too well on my system (to me, the audio engine was like a balky lawnmower that would poop out and I'd have to restart), and there are so many "smaller" features and fixes that I now take for granted because they made so much sense. I have shiny spots on Ctrl-Alt-F. CbB used to scramble up my takes if I recorded with the lanes closed (which I always do). Being able to use Aim Assist without the numerical readout obscuring the Ruler tick marks. Persistent note names in PRV. Right click and rename clip, for heaven's sake. Ripple Edit Indicator! Configurable Smart Tool! Select, right click and Process in the Staff View. The new amazing Export dialog. By themselves, maybe minor or less flashy improvements and fixes, but taken together, holy crap.

Think of this: BandLab has now owned the Cakewalk brand longer than Gibson did. People who started using CbB in college are now graduating or already have. I wonder how many people can now say "I used Cakewalk by BandLab throughout college." Yet we still get people who are dubious about whether the program can "survive" as freeware. It's already "survived" better and longer under BandLab than it did under the last owners. ?

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A thing of beauty and power.

No argument there. I haven't completely parsed it, but it looks like you could set up your mouse buttons to do just about anything.

Edited June 8, 2022 by Starship Krupa

[Terry Kelley]

I wrote an MT32 editor back in the day. Ran under DOS and required ANSI.SYS! But hey, it worked! I converted it to Cscape at some point.

[pbognar]

On 6/5/2022 at 1:14 PM, Lord Tim said:

If you just want to run Cakewalk for DOS then the easiest thing is to grab Virtual Box and FreeDOS and run it all in a VM. Then go play Doom  

I checked out Virtual Box - it's very cool.  I was thinking of all the old software which could be brought back to life and then I realized - I'm into making music with best tools possible - why would I even consider going down that rabbit hole?

I remember longing to be able to use Logic PC again, but when you look at it objectively, we have it so much easier today, even with free and almost free DAW software available to us.  

[Eric Duncan]

This solution worked. I did have an issue with the setup, I unzipped a previous install and it worked without an issue. 

CPW30.rar

[Byron Dickens]

So you joined the forum just to necromance a year and a half old dead thread to boast how you accomplished something pointless....

[User 905133]

I re-read all the posts in this thread (didn't watch the videos, though).  It did bring back memories.  I haven't used Dr. T's KCS or my Commodore 64 (used for the KCS) in multiple decades, but re-reading the thread was nostalgic. No desire to run KCS or Cakewalk for MS-DOS, though.  I think a filmmaker wanting to recreate scenes from bygone eras might want to make use of the software to run ancient software.  Someone wanting to open a museum (or do a historical you tube video) to showcase ancient music software could also use it.

I know Cakewalk for MS-DOS came on 5 1/4" floppies, but vaguely recall either CPW 3.0 or 3.1 came on 3 1/2" hard-cased floppies.  If so, I could try to run it just for the sheer fun of it since I do have a usb 3 1/2" drive. Not a top priority for me, but I'd be mildly curious to see how much CbB's Staff View and Notation Printing has changed since then.  (CPW had them both, right?) 

HISTORICAL NOTE:  Just found my boxed up Cakewalk Professional 4.0a Sequencer.  It has two 5 1/4" floppy floppies (1 program disk, 1 utilities disk) and one hard-shell 3 1/2" floppy disk.  The mild curiosity has passed--no desire to even see if I can make a backup copy with my 3 1/2" usb drive much less to try to see if I could run it. 

Edited January 30, 2024 by User 905133
to add a historical note about the Cakewalk Pro 4.0a floppies

[chuckebaby]

This post hurt my brain. I began recalling all this old information like cheat codes to Atari Frogger.

Anyway, the last version I was able successfully run on present day Windows was Pro Audio 9. I was fun for nostalgia purposes but nothing more than that. I wouldn't be able to work in an environment like that anymore.

[Terry Kelley]

Are you mad!!!!!??????

Edited January 28, 2024 by Terry Kelley

[Byron Dickens]

2 hours ago, pwal³ said:

why not just try to help a user?

User of what? Drugs?

[Terry Kelley]

Byron, I think what he is requesting is to help make this forum better, not worse.

[midist]

On 2022. 6. 8. at 오전 7시 36분, Xoo said:

여기 있습니다.

3개의 PRV 도구:

그리고 각각의 노트에는 5개의 히트 존이 있고, 배경("아무데도")과 컨트롤러 값이 있으며, 3개의 마우스 버튼과 3개의 키 수정자를 사용할 수 있습니다(모든 조합이 가능하므로 도구를 변경하지 않고도 8 * 3 * 5 명령이 가능합니다!):

또는 메모를 클릭한 경우:

아름다움과 힘을 지닌 것.

Wow, you made me remember this awesome feature again. I really hope it comes back.