desertbluesman Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 BandLab Technologies today announced the acquisition of certain assets and the complete intellectual property of Cakewalk Inc. from Gibson Brands. CEO of BandLab Technologies, Meng Ru Kuok said, We are very excited to be bringing Cakewalk Incs products into the BandLab Technologies stable. Cakewalk has been an industry leader in professional music software, delivering cutting edge technology that has empowered producers and artists alike around the world for more than 30 years. We have immense respect for Cakewalks legacy and the incredible community of people who love the brand and rely on its products in both their personal and professional lives. The teams at both Gibson and BandLab felt that Cakewalks products deserved a new home where development could continue. We are pleased to be supporting Cakewalks passionate community of creators to ensure they have access to the best possible features and music products under the BandLab Technologies banner, he said. The deal includes only the transfer of Cakewalk Inc.s assets and intellectual property. No other details of the deal have been released. More information will be shared about product roadmap and future features in due course. For more information, visit http://cakewalk.bandlab.com. About BandLab Technologies BandLab Technologies is a collective of global music brands with a vision to connect the world of music. Together, our brands share a passion. Were driven by integrating the physical, digital and social supply chain, to enable better experiences, opportunities, and connections for all music lovers. BandLab, the groups flagship digital product, is a social music platform that enables creators to make music and share the creative process with other musicians and fans. Other notable brands within the portfolio include Rolling Stone, the worlds leading voice in pop culture and music since 1967, MONO, an award-winning music lifestyle product company, and Swee Lee, Asias leading online retailer and distributor of musical instruments and pro-audio brands. Established in 2016, BandLab Technologies is headquartered in Singapore. About Cakewalk Inc. Cakewalk is the leading developer of powerful and thoughtfully designed products for the modern musician. These products include award-winning digital audio workstations and innovative virtual instruments. Millions of musicians worldwideincluding Grammy® and Emmy®-winning producers, composers, sound designers, and engineersuse Cakewalk products daily to produce audio for the professional music, film, broadcast, and video game industries. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyalcatraz Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 So it begins... Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: âNinety percent of everything is crapâ My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 "Although it is well known for its guitars, Gibson's largest business is in fact electronics. Gibson offers consumer audio equipment devices through its subsidiaries Gibson Innovations (Philips brand), Onkyo Corporation(Onkyo and Pioneer brands), TEAC Corporation (Teac and Esoteric brands), Cerwin Vega and Stanton,as well as professional audio equipment from KRK Systems and TEAC Corporation/TASCAM and music software from Cakewalk." Wiki +1 "So it begins" Danny Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Good news for Cakewalk users, who were basically hung out to dry by Gibson. I think we're seeing the beginning of the dismantling of Gibson. Hopefully a smaller, leaner, more efficient, guitar builder, under new management, will emerge. Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Good news for Cakewalk users, who were basically hung out to dry by Gibson. I think we're seeing the beginning of the dismantling of Gibson. Hopefully a smaller, leaner, more efficient, guitar builder, under new management, will emerge. I'd like to see that, rather than Gibson ceasing to be... Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 Good news for Cakewalk users, who were basically hung out to dry by Gibson. I think we're seeing the beginning of the dismantling of Gibson. Hopefully a smaller, leaner, more efficient, guitar builder, under new management, will emerge. I'd like to see that, rather than Gibson ceasing to be... Like Cakewalk, I am sure someone can buy the brand and reinvigorate the Gibson name. Hopefully there are some guitar makers scheming on how to buy that name and buy the right to build those classic Gibson guitars. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I switched over to Reaper a few years ago and never looked back. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 I have no experience with any other recording application, I have been using Cakewalk products since Pro Audio 9 and every version of Sonar from 1 to 8.5.3 which is the last version I upgraded to. I always found it easy to use, it did what I asked it to do fairly easily. And if I ever get a new DAW up and running I will stick with Sonar, at least enough to export all the audio tracks of my 50 or 75 songs track by track into something usable for any new app that I come up with. However 8.5.3 worked very well for me. If I can get an XP computer running again (I am working on my old laptop for just that reason) I have 8.5.3 installed on it, and it seems to work well enough. I now have the daunting task of copying all of the files from the 4 hard drives of my old and dead DAW, putting each drive in an external case, copying all the files to one or 2 USB3 hard drives. I have enough USB ports for the mouse, 2 external drives (one for my samples, one for audio and archives) and one USB port for the new audio interface. One of these days I will get my lazy ass in gear and start the process. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 DMB, Astring and Doc, you are miles and miles ahead of me as I never really got into recording. I bought some software but it didn't work with the drivers I had at the time. I may get around to it again some day...I hope Cakewalk and Gibson can both stick around and avoid bankruptcy...I hope someone will pick up the leftovers and carry on if they do have to file...I'll be sure to look into Reaper too! Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 I started recording in the mid 1980's. At first I had the standard 4 track cassette thing. Then I had the Akai 1212, a 12 channel recording system (VHS like Casette tape based). Then I went out and bought an Otari MX70 16 track 30 inch per second tape deck with a Tac Scorpion console 24 in/outs with 16 track back and forth to he tape machine, then out in stereo to an Otari MX70 half track with Dolby SR (Dolby SR gave the stereo tape machine the noise floor of Digital)(Approximately 55 grand for those four items) I triggered 24 synths and samplers with a Macintosh II computer system. I used that set up to make my first real decent quality recordings. When I was done recording my first album, I then recorded a few more songs and then moved to Florida and put my stuff in a climate controlled Storage unit in Crescent Beach Florida. After a few trips back and forth to the West Coast in about 1987 or so I decided to sell the tape machines. I think I got 50% of what I paid for them. Anyways after that I did not begin recording again until 1999 when I bought my first Windows 98 computer. It crashed every day unlike my Mac Based system however I updated to Windows ME which was more stable and used that until Windows 2000, then Win XP. Once I hit XP Pro OS, I had a stable platform to begin real recording again. I used 3 different XP Pro based computers over the years until my last one went belly up a few months back. Bottom line, I learned how to record back in the mid 80's via trail and error (many errors). My initial method was to use MIDI triggered synths and samplers using Mark Of The Unicorns Performer MIDI sequencer into the Akai and then the Otari setup and render the tracks to audio using a simple method of playing the synths one track at a time to audio in real time. I had a SMPTE time code written on track 16 of the Otari and the Macs I used read the time code and placed everything on to the tracks of the tape machine in exact time to the other recorded tracks. Once I got my windows computers up and running for recording I began using Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and then the Sonar versions. I had a Yamaha SW1000XG synth card in my computers and the Echo Layla 24/96 audio interface. Computer recording came natural to me after learning how to do it the old fashioned way on to tape through a TAC console. Bottom line recording is a simple process once you know how just like everything else. Just like my masonry skills, it is no big deal to me to go out and from a set of plans build a building, or veneer a building with masonry, including the arts of stone masonry, face brick, or concrete block. No big deal, Concrete flat work, also simple as can be once you know how. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Like you @desertbluesman, I was a devote Sonar/Calkwalk user. But I found Reaper was almost identical so the switch over was easy. Plus, it has some amazing built in VSTs and a price that you can't beat. Give the demo a try sometime...you may just switch over. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 I decided to sell the tape machines. I think I got 50% of what I paid for them. You were lucky. I got maybe 10% of what all my analog gear cost initially. I was extremely happy to get the space back, & for the last dozen years or so there has been no mixer in my control room. Actually my productivity went way up when I went to an all computer based studio, since one of the expectations of clients now is to be able to revisit finished projects & make new backing track, or mix-minus, versions, or to be able to make minute tweaks to existing mixes. Even with recall, this was never actually possible in analog. Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 I decided to sell the tape machines. I think I got 50% of what I paid for them. You were lucky. I got maybe 10% of what all my analog gear cost initially. I was extremely happy to get the space back, & for the last dozen years or so there has been no mixer in my control room. Actually my productivity went way up when I went to an all computer based studio, since one of the expectations of clients now is to be able to revisit finished projects & make new backing track, or mix-minus, versions, or to be able to make minute tweaks to existing mixes. Even with recall, this was never actually possible in analog. Not only was I lucky to get what I got for my analog gear, I had it on consignment at Tekcom in Philly, what I did not know was that company was about to go belly up in bankruptcy. Fortunately the owner was a person who became friend of mine while we were doing business, and he sent me the check and it cleared. That is a man with integrity. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 @ DBM and Astring, I played around with my Teac 4 track cassette recorder but never really got into it seriously...I may think about some software in the future. I looked at a Reaper demo and it is interesting. Free for 60 days but not sure what the price is after that. It looks like it may be a simple conversion from Cakewalk... Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Fraser Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 It's around $80 I believe. Very worthwhile. Scott Fraser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Thanks Scott! Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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