Cakewalk is dead. Long live Cakewalk!

[mumpcake]

Exactly. Of course some people might say that it's only a problem if you are going to be rebuilding machines, but you don't always know when your machine is going to go down.

[zzz00m]

Exactly. Of course some people might say that it's only a problem if you are going to be rebuilding machines, but you don't always know when your machine is going to go down.

This ^^^ is important for anyone who depends on a DAW for their livelihood. Don't leave this to chance!

[tonedef71]

I think it is possible for an authorization server to be reassigned to the stewardship of a third party. For example, the company DigitalProAudioSamples.com acquired the electronic distribution and sale rights for the E-mu Emulator X3 sampler software: https://www.digitalproaudiosamples.com/ ... r-software
If I am not mistaken, that company also maintains the authorization server so that you can still authorize the product online; E-mu Systems is not involved with it anymore.

So I am thinking that Bandlab should be able to keep the Cakewalk authorization servers up and running if they wanted to.

[trtzbass]

Point taken, but.

I once was running a session: the client was a spoiled millionaire, the arranger flew into London straight from Melbourne and we had five hours to track six singers demoing a musical theatre show.
I fired up the sessions and the DAW (no names named) decided to not play ball and refused to start.
A workaround made it work in the end but for twenty minutes I wished I was dead while I distracted the clients AND troubleshot the program.

Experiences like that kinda make you very sensitive to dependability issues in software, you'll understand.

Strange theres all those users of DAWs that never upgraded in years and are producing music just fine and yet some Sonar users are crapping their pants even though it still works the same as it did the day before the closure.

The sky is falling.....!!!

[pathworker]

VariKusBrainZ wrote:
Strange theres all those users of DAWs that never upgraded in years and are producing music just fine and yet some Sonar users are crapping their pants even though it still works the same as it did the day before the closure.

The sky is falling.....!!!

Good point. if it does the job its still good for the job.
my advice however would be, if you are handling client data though. keep that on a separate system( ideally not cloud based ), some more recent DAWS have this nasty habit or requiring to "call home" periodically to continue functionality, I'm not a fan of that model because if the auth server craps out mid session AND your DAW wants to call home, your potentially screwed same with your poor client who, as in the above example has expended a lot of time and effort to get to the studio.

this is especially cogent since cyber attacks are on the increases so plug your security holes!! its not just personal data that will be filched but materiel to which you, and your clients own IP rights, BE VIGILANT