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Smedberg · Post by **Smedberg** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:35 pm

http://www.cakewalk.com/Press/release.a ... kewalk-Inc
Positive or negative?

Breval · Post by **Breval** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:39 pm

Now I know why Craig Anderton asked opinions on subscription services on their forum.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:41 pm

More of a Fender man myself, but whatever. Cakewalk seems to me like an odd fit for the Gibson brand, but what do I know?

Breval · Post by **Breval** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:44 pm

Gibson became 'Gibson Brands' in June.

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:50 pm

They had such a partner in Roland, doing hw and software integrated products.

So what's new really?
Obviously Cakewalk did not perform well enough.

Distríbution worldwide through Gibson or Roland are equally good. Will local musicstores do boxed upgrades on Cakewalk?

Not a good thing this.

But will have a look at X3 as I hope is around the corner.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:50 pm

Looking forward to GibSonar X3!

rp314 · Post by **rp314** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:50 pm

Opcode Systems, Inc. was founded in 1985 by Dave Oppenheim and based in and around Palo Alto, California, USA. Opcode produced MIDI sequencing software for the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows, which would later include digital audio capabilities, as well as audio and MIDI hardware interfaces. Opcode's MIDIMAC sequencer, launched in 1986, was the first commercially available MIDI sequencer for the Macintosh computer and one of the first commercially available music sequencers on any commercial computer platform.

At the time Opcode went under, the Studio Vision sequencer was at the front of the pack, with arguably the best MIDI editor written to this day.

In 1998, Opcode was bought by Gibson Guitar Corporation. Development on Opcode products ceased in 1999.

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:57 pm

rp314 wrote:
Opcode Systems, Inc. was founded in 1985 by Dave Oppenheim and based in and around Palo Alto, California, USA. Opcode produced MIDI sequencing software for the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows, which would later include digital audio capabilities, as well as audio and MIDI hardware interfaces. Opcode's MIDIMAC sequencer, launched in 1986, was the first commercially available MIDI sequencer for the Macintosh computer and one of the first commercially available music sequencers on any commercial computer platform.

At the time Opcode went under, the Studio Vision sequencer was at the front of the pack, with arguably the best MIDI editor written to this day.

In 1998, Opcode was bought by Gibson Guitar Corporation. Development on Opcode products ceased in 1999.

That could very well happend here as well. They emphasized how valuable their R&D Labs.

It's hard to make a business with software alone due to piracy.

Had a couple of Tascam portastudios in the 80's, good stuff. A new line of hardware controllers and recordingsystems maybe.

J4R1O · Post by **J4R1O** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:05 pm

I love Gibson guitars, but I've had enough of Cakewalk. They just don't seem to get their s*it together.

So for me it's: bye Cakewalk/Sonar/Tascam/Gibson/whatever, and hello Steinberg!

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:09 pm

J4R1O wrote: bye Cakewalk/Sonar/Tascam/Gibson/whatever, and hello Steinberg!

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chokehold · Post by **chokehold** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:10 pm

Not a Sonar user or Gibson player myself, but I'm always curiously observing, and usually things don't tend to get much better if "big ones from outside" take over others from inside the "scene". So I'm really curious how that's going to work out...

Could mean extreme changes to Sonar, maybe because someone at Gibson really wants to do something with Cakewalk, or it could just be the old "you have something we need, we'll buy you and let you bleed out in the corner" trick again. Guess we'll see...

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:18 pm

As a former devouted lover of Studio Vision Pro, I would like to extend my sympathies to the Cakewalk users.

To this day I wouldn't even buy a Gibson guitar strap.

rsp

J4R1O · Post by **J4R1O** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:22 pm

I guess that Roland wasn't very pleased with that digtal sack of bugs they called X2.

Thank god I don't own V700...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:42 pm

they'll raise the price because of the Gibson name and start reinventing it a zillion ways by releasing signature versions of software with certain pluggins and configurations the "stars" use to raise the price even more (the Jordan Rudess signature DAW cannot be that far off

)...but still because it's Gibson there will be plenty of people to support them. You cannot blame the customers though because if you've been using Cakewalk for a long time (which is obviously the case for many) you might want to suck it up and stick with what you know.

I'm sorry but over the years no one can convince me that Gibson does as much good for music industry as it does bad...I guess it's wait and see when or if this happens.

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:48 pm

Hink wrote:they'll raise the price because of the Gibson name and start reinventing it a zillion ways by releasing signature versions of software with certain pluggins and configurations the "stars" use to raise the price even more (the Jordan Rudess signature DAW cannot be that far off )...but still because it's Gibson there will be plenty of people to support them. You cannot blame the customers though because if you've been using Cakewalk for a long time (which is obviously the case for many) you might want to suck it up and stick with what you know.

I'm sorry but over the years no one can convince me that Gibson does as much good for music industry as it does bad...I guess it's wait and see when or if this happens.

lol, I feel the same way about all the "signature" plugin packs. I mean who in their right mind pays $50+ for a set of compressor and/or EQ presets for a devices that has two knobs and two switches and no reference to the source material that defined the settings to begin with. It's never made any sense to me. But, you are probably not far off what will happen.

Gibson Brands Announces Intention to Acquire Cakewalk Inc.