Cakewalk Sonar Platinum is now free!

[BMoore]

Bandlab assistant?!
lol yeah right

Not sure what your point is. Cakewalk had "Command Center" before that. In fact, most of the bigger plugin companies like Waves, NI, Toontrack, IK Multimedia, and XLN Audio all use product manager programs these days.

Are you boycotting those companies too, or did I misunderstand you?

Of all the unnecessary spying crap, I'm not going to install an "assistant" from a dogy company that gives away a DAW for free, and thinks cloud-based-everything is the way to go.

But hey, be my guest.
There's a sucker born every second.

So I guess you never use Google, Bing, youtube..
You neither run Apple's OS nor win10...
In fact better close of your internet...
and for your information I have Sonar and this new Cakewalk ( un_installed the assistant)
but I am no sucker>> understand!!!!

Google and Bing?! What is this, 2002?!

As for the rest of your ramblings to my post *swoosh

[fmr]

Judging from what he posted, you didn't understand, or misunderstood deliberately, just to be able to argue something.

Of course (coming from you, that argument is laughable)

[fmr]

Music software companies that I know have "assistants":

Native Instruments
Arturia
Steinberg
IK Multimedia
iZotope (although they don't force it on users... yet)
Softube
MAGIX
Camel Audio (now disappeared)
Apple

[BMoore]

Judging from what he posted, you didn't understand, or misunderstood deliberately, just to be able to argue something.

Of course (coming from you, that argument is laughable)

Good one.
Did someone assist you to come up with an outstanding reply like that?

[BMoore]

Music software companies that I know have "assistants":

Native Instruments
Arturia
Steinberg
IK Multimedia
iZotope (although they don't force it on users... yet)
Softube
MAGIX
Camel Audio (now disappeared)
Apple

This isn't an argument for a Bandlab(!) "assistant" for a free DAW.

[fmr]

Music software companies that I know have "assistants":

Native Instruments
Arturia
Steinberg
IK Multimedia
iZotope (although they don't force it on users... yet)
Softube
MAGIX
Camel Audio (now disappeared)
Apple

This isn't an argument for a Bandlab(!) "assistant" for a free DAW.

Except that MAYBE they want to create a whole eco-system around Cakewalk, with downloadable content (eventually paid), in which case the "assistant" makes all the sense. After all, this is a business corporation, and certainly they have a business model thought for it. It's not a bedroom developer that just launched an "app", decided to gave it away and forget about it.

[THE INTRANCER]

I managed to workaround the graphic glitch without restarting the application by creating a new song and selecting a new template and returning to the previous song. At least that's how I think I managed to sort it. It could be video memory related, and thus refreshing is able to sort it. One of the things I noticed was that my main graphics card was set to adaptive rather than performance mode so I've changed that to the latter now.

Windows applications are not immune to graphic issues when lots of windows and tabs are open, and I've seen and experienced poor screen redraw rate in other programs such as Cinema 4D with advanced custom templates. Photoshop CS6 is one application that has OpenGL builtin so speed can be set to be optimal from within, so perhaps because Cakewalk, doesn't have this, it's more reliant on how the graphic cards setting are configured from the Nvidia / ATI control panel. Not sure.. maybe a new graphics card is really what my Intel I7 920 system is asking for.

[Woodgardens]

The illusion that this app is free is kind of laughable IMO
Considered how many paid for its development.

[dellboy]

To all those who have posted negatively here about how they will not downland and install Cakewalk-Bandlab
Because it will mess with your computer and steal your privacy........

What exactly is your point ?

You do not want a free daw - fine

You do not like installing stuff on your ultra clean pristine computer - fine

But why come here and complain ?

Whats your point exactly

[zzz00m]

The illusion that this app is free is kind of laughable IMO
Considered how many paid for its development.

I paid for 20 years. I am not laughing.

I am sincerely happy to see it carry on, rather than be buried!

[chk071]

Bandlab assistant?!
lol yeah right

Not sure what your point is. Cakewalk had "Command Center" before that. In fact, most of the bigger plugin companies like Waves, NI, Toontrack, IK Multimedia, and XLN Audio all use product manager programs these days.

Are you boycotting those companies too, or did I misunderstand you?

I'm not boycotting anyone for that reason, but, it adds to the reasons why i wouldn't install it, alongside with the plugins which come with it, which all have to be removed individually, when you uninstall Cakewalk, if it's the same as it was with Sonar X1. I can see how that doesn't pose an issue for other users, but, for just giving Cakewalk a try, it's definitely not worth it for me.

So, judging from what you post, you never install trials or demos of anything, because all of them will most certainly install things that you don't want/need, and sometimes leave things behind (that's why I use a special uninstaller that cleans all those remainings).

No, you got me wrong. What i was saying is that i don't need yet another software manager in addition to the several i already have installed, nor do i need a software which installs many individual plugins (i think Cakewalk does, Sonar did for sure), which i have to remove manually, when i took a look at the freebie, and decided that i don't want to forther use it.

No need to make a big deal out of it either, i just say how it is for me, that doesn't have to apply for anyone else, nor do i want people not to try Cakewalk. I think it's a great offer, i just can't be arsed to have another shitty software manager on my system. It's really annoying, because i like my system streamlined, and i also lik to have control over what i have to install. Just think about it, do you want a Google software manager to install Chrome, or a Mozilla software manager to install Firefox? I doubt it. In the end, you'd be left with a system with a whole lot of sh** installed, which is completely redundant.

See i don't have an issue when NI offer their stuff on Native Access, because i own a lot of their plugins. For the Bandlab Assistant, i'd install one software to install another software. Nonsense.

Anyway, back to the show, i don't want to bore anyone with first world concerns.

[fmr]

The illusion that this app is free is kind of laughable IMO
Considered how many paid for its development.

I paid for 20 years. I am not laughing.

I am sincerely happy to see it carry on, rather than be buried!

+1. I am much more upset by other companies. I'm glad that Cakewalk was saved and survived its announced death. And since Nick Rothwell is on board, I have good expectations about its future.

[chk071]

In the end, Bandlab bought the IP for a price, and is offering it now free, and a lot of people sign up for their services, so, nope, it's not free. At least not in the sense that anyone gives out a gift of some kind. They surely have a plan with it, and the new customers.

[THE INTRANCER]

No, you got me wrong. What i was saying is that i don't need yet another software manager in addition to the several i already have installed, nor do i need a software which installs many individual plugins (i think Cakewalk does, Sonar did for sure), which i have to remove manually, when i took a look at the freebie, and decided that i don't want to forther use it.

No need to make a big deal out of it either, i just say how it is for me, that doesn't have to apply for anyone else, nor do i want people not to try Cakewalk. I think it's a great offer, i just can't be arsed to have another shitty software manager on my system. It's really annoying, because i like my system streamlined, and i also lik to have control over what i have to install. Just think about it, do you want a Google software manager to install Chrome, or a Mozilla software manager to install Firefox? I doubt it. In the end, you'd be left with a system with a whole lot of sh** installed, which is completely redundant.

See i don't have an issue when NI offer their stuff on Native Access, because i own a lot of their plugins. For the Bandlab Assistant, i'd install one software to install another software. Nonsense.

Anyway, back to the show, i don't want to bore anyone with first world concerns.

You don't even need to keep the Bandlab Assistant installed to run the application and use it, it's only there to allow you to update the program in the future and perhaps allow you to download and install plugins easily in the future. It's not like we are running Cakewalk on Amiga computers with 20 Megabyte hard disks these days either.. lol. In any case, there's even a tick box you can select so it doesn't start up from the cog at the top left...it's really a non issue now.

[chk071]

According to Bandlab, it's also needed to authorize the software?