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pwal · Post by **pwal** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:17 pm

the soup thickens...

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:39 pm

juffi wrote:Anyone saw this? Goodbye Roland, hello Gibson! Or Tascam...

http://www.cakewalk.com/Press/release.a ... kewalk-Inc

I sincerely hope not. Gibson already buried Opcode, it would be a shame if Cakewalk would join.

What I don't understand is the Teac/Tascam role in this arrangement. Is Teac in the Gibson group?

Arglebargle · Post by **Arglebargle** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:43 pm

pc999 wrote:
AROSSA [Cakewalk] wrote:
So basically stop worrying. You are discussing an issue that is a non-issue. Let people who love Steam buy products on their store and be happy. And you can buy products the way you want to buy them. Everybody wins.

I hope this is clear.
What about let cakewalk users choose Steam DRM over yours??? (I dont own Sonar, so I dont know your DRM, but I can live with steam one, not very happy, but unlike other DAWs/stuff/games I still buy from them)

why the hell would you want steam DRM over cakewalk? sonar activation is a simple serial number and activation code, all offline.

juffi · Post by **juffi** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:44 pm

Seems like Roland had enough of buggy cakewalk thingys. There was a blowout at musicstore cologne of the V700R Studio interface for just 399 Euros, which was normally way more than 1000 bucks. I was a little bit tempted because of that built in Fantom VS

Anyway are we getting Cakewalk interfaces powered by Tascam?

Don't know. It is too much going on at cake's side to decide something for my studio.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:49 pm

juffi wrote:Seems like Roland had enough of buggy cakewalk thingys.

I doubt there's many companies in this business which are doing well, so it's not that much a question of buggy products.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:54 pm

chk071 wrote:
juffi wrote:Seems like Roland had enough of buggy cakewalk thingys.
I doubt there's many companies in this business which are doing well, so it's not that much a question of buggy products.

Roland never had a strategy for Cakewalk. It wasn't integrated, there were no synergies, no technologies shared - nothing at all. Just an erratic pursuit of something I could never devise or understand.

yevster · Post by **yevster** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:54 pm

Anyone notice Craig Anderton's name as the representative of Gibson on the press release? He has a title of Executive VP at Gibson (since February of this year), though I'm not sure how much sway that title comes with. That said, as he's written quite a bit about and for Cakewalk products, it's likely he had some input into the acquisition. Hopefully, he'll have some control over product going forward.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:25 pm

fmr wrote:What I don't understand is the Teac/Tascam role in this arrangement. Is Teac in the Gibson group?

Apparently Gibson made a large investment in TEAC/Tascam a few months back:

http://tascam.com/news/display/911/

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:21 pm

Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote:
fmr wrote:What I don't understand is the Teac/Tascam role in this arrangement. Is Teac in the Gibson group?
Apparently Gibson made a large investment in TEAC/Tascam a few months back:

http://tascam.com/news/display/911/

So, Teac/Tascam, and now Cakewalk. And the presence of Craig Anderton as guest star. Seems like the plot is well written, Let's see who will be directing the movie. But I keep remembering what happened to Oberheim and Opcode.

clintmartin · Post by **clintmartin** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:24 pm

As a happy Sonar X2 user...I would be thrilled to have Tascam come on board. I can't see a negative.

pc999 · Post by **pc999** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:38 pm

Arglebargle wrote:
why the hell would you want steam DRM over cakewalk? sonar activation is a simple serial number and activation code, all offline.

In that case it is much better, like I said I dont know which DRM they had, but I was convinced it as some complicated form of DRM.

Glad it isnt.

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:07 pm

clintmartin wrote:As a happy Sonar X2 user...I would be thrilled to have Tascam come on board. I can't see a negative.

You are too young, apparently. I saw this movie before, and it had no happy ending.

Breval · Post by **Breval** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 1:36 am

fmr wrote:
clintmartin wrote:As a happy Sonar X2 user...I would be thrilled to have Tascam come on board. I can't see a negative.
You are too young, apparently. I saw this movie before, and it had no happy ending.

Twice!
(3 times actually)

vintagevibe · Post by **vintagevibe** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:05 am

clintmartin wrote:As a happy Sonar X2 user...I would be thrilled to have Tascam come on board. I can't see a negative.

So you don't know what Tascam did to Gigastudio?

SODDI · Post by **SODDI** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:19 am

yevster wrote:Anyone notice Craig Anderton's name as the representative of Gibson on the press release? He has a title of Executive VP at Gibson (since February of this year), though I'm not sure how much sway that title comes with. That said, as he's written quite a bit about and for Cakewalk products, it's likely he had some input into the acquisition. Hopefully, he'll have some control over product going forward.

They'll trot him out for pseudo-credibility when they need him, otherwise he's another empty suit.

Cakewalk Sonar X3