Rickddd Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago I'm just an old guy in my living room but I have friends who would like to get into home recording. When we discuss DAWs I will basically tell them I have had much success and enjoyment using Cakewalk products starting way back with Cakewalk Studio and continuing into today. I just renewed my Cakewalk subscription. But.... I never go all out urging my friends to definitely try and go with Cakewalk. The reason? Long term issues that quite frankly are so old that they are sporting gray beards and collecting social security checks. Things that have been reported a million times and never get addressed. Things we people who do use cakewalk have developed work arounds for in many cases but you will never hear me tell my friends "you HAVE TO use cakewalk but you will have to use the following work rounds all the time to get around issues that are never fixed. Instead I give cakewalk a much more reserved recommendation with caveats. I've talked about the recent files list issue before. . As much as I apply the work around every once in a while I forget and am burnt once again. Or the backup saving system that simply poorly works and gets in the way so much so the work around is to not use it. This one is in a wheelchair. Another one is how when I try to freeze an individual track, I'd better not do anything else in windows while I am waiting for the processing to finish or else cakewalk will crash. I have to sit there and metaphorically hold my breath when processing goes on. Strangely, I can do anything short of rebooting windows while I am outputting a mix and cakewalk works fine. (I know I know... it's ALWAYS the fault of the plug-ins. Nothing to see here. Move along....) I know we are told that a fix for the color schemes and controls is coming, but that's another one that is in an old folks home waiting for the experimental remedy to show up. There's a saying.... keep doing things the same old way and get the same old results. I've always felt that Cakewalk would be unbeatable, were it not for the issues that never get fixed. And this has been going on years and years. Maybe this is the reason when professionals discuss the DAWS , Cakewalk is hardly ever mentioned. And the same old way? Look at the history. Cakewalk could be king instead it's been handed off over the years prevented from achieving the greatness that it truly has inside. If only the damn work arounds weren't needed. End of rant. I love Cakewalk. But sometimes I don't think it loves me.
Wookiee Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago Better to report to support@cakewalk.com or https://help.bandlab.com/hc/en-us/requests/new than rant here nno real value gained. 1 1
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