Cakewalk is “dead”?

[CapnLockheed]

Mmnn......I love a "free" lunch.....

[JerGoertz]

I know people say that they found Sonar buggy,but that may have been a result of their overall system,rather than the individual program itself...

Heh, if you got Sonar to work stably by keeping your system streamlined exclusively for music, more power to ya. I've used Reason, Sonar, Cubase, FL Studio, Live, and Bitwig. Only one of those DAWs crashed like a mo-fo if you even looked at it funny. Which seems more reasonable to assign fault to, a system which was otherwise stable with most 3rd-party software (music and otherwise), or the one piece of software which crashed on it consistently and frequently?

Anyhoo, I will check out the new version of Cakewalk sometime here, maybe things are better.

[Tannaliini]

I highly doubt their codebase is solid and no-frills. With so much legacy and considering how buggy Cakewalk has historically been, it's still probably horrible. It will take them a lot more time to fix it.

I can vouch for the fact that it is neither buggy nor horrible and it comes with the option of downloading some of the best free vst instruments I have seen. If you have bandlab, try downloading the optional studio instruments and even if you don't get along with Cakewalk, you can use them in another DAW. Personally I think Cakewalk is pretty awesome.

What type of VSTs you mean? Instruments or effects?

[jaybanon]

big fan of cake walk stock vst "beatscape" looking to get it. If someone can dm or drop a pc installer link

[sping]

big fan of cake walk stock vst "beatscape" looking to get it. If someone can dm or drop a pc installer link

Don't think beatscape is part of Cakewalk, but some other instruments.
Download at https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

[Erisian]

What type of VSTs you mean? Instruments or effects?

Instruments

[cptgone]

That's why I can't stand Cubase at all. It's 1990's legacy is just so much showing in its interface.

FWIW, Cubase got a rewrite in 2002.

[Jace-BeOS]

That's why I can't stand Cubase at all. It's 1990's legacy is just so much showing in its interface.

FWIW, Cubase got a rewrite in 2002.

I thought it felt loaded with legacy in version 4/4.5 which was well after that. Menu organization, concepts...

Edit: since this is a Cakewalk thread: I felt Sonar was loaded with legacy from the Win16 API, as with so much Windows software. By the time they re-dressed it in the Sonar X-series, that legacy shifted a bit to being the ugly parts of the Win32 legacy, still peaking out between the modern bits... I was already moving to a different OS at the time, since I identified the OS (and its own legacy) as the biggest part of what I disliked overall. Microsoft still hasn’t improved things much.

[Baum]

Need to have a look at Cakewalk again. Last time I wasn’t impressed. Good that it is still going, though.

[vurt]

in some strange aeons, even the reaper may die...

Don't fear the reaper, vurt-onovich

the only thing to fear, is fear itself.
and bitwig.

[robotmonkey]

That's why I can't stand Cubase at all. It's 1990's legacy is just so much showing in its interface.

FWIW, Cubase got a rewrite in 2002.

Yeah, I know, but when I tried it again couple of years back, it still felt like Cubase VST 3.5 or 5 from the old days. And it could not even launch on Win 7 with the classic skin on, which felt totally retarded.

[Steve Bolivar]

big fan of cake walk stock vst "beatscape" looking to get it. If someone can dm or drop a pc installer link

I thought Beatscape had a lot of potential. Too bad Cakewalk never developed it further. They kinda did the same with Cyclone. I'll check if I have any of my old Sonar install discs that may have it. I think the last few updates were all discless.

[explodingfist]

CbB 2020.04 released yesterday

[rollasoc]

Tried using a cakewalk plugin (CA2A) today, that I probably haven't used in about 4 years. It just took down Cubase. Might just uninstall that one then.

[Aloysius]

catwalk has nine lives