Gibson have dumped cakewalk

Luminous

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/11/21/gibson-ceases-development-of-cakewalk-products/

A lot of very angry people, I'm glad I ditched sonar years ago.

Bridgehouse

Eeee there's trouble at t'mill

Luminous

Yup...I posted this in the guitar section as Gibson's activities are relevant.

Bridgehouse

Luminous said:

Yup...I posted this in the guitar section as Gibson's activities are relevant.

I'm sort of not surprised they have done this. But also it's a pretty sad development in their story tho.

Luminous

I got out when Roland bought Cakewalk.

Exorcist

Seems a theme... I moved over years ago, I think after Roland bought them. Never looked back

guitarfishbay

Luminous said:

I got out when Roland bought Cakewalk.

I didn’t even realise it wasn’t still owned by Roland until today 

siraxeman

Eee lads nay'mind there's a new Tracktion 'art!

Freebird

The king is dead, long live Reaper.

Stuckfast

http://blog.cakewalk.com/cakewalk-announcement/

Almost unbelievably, this is the second long-established multitrack recording program they've killed off! That must be some sort of record in such a niche market.

Snap

Wow, thanks for the update. I've used Cakewalk and then Sonar since the mid 90s. However, recently (Im on Platinum) it has got more and more glitchy and tbh its a bit of a pain in the arse. I've always resisted learning another daw as I am a hobbyist, but looks like this might make me do it.

The developers have been a bit of their own worst enemies as its been a glitchy DAW from day one. I've always had vague worries about it packing up.

Recently I've lost 2 projects as its totally remapped all the midi routing without obvious reason.

Three-ColourSunburst

The decision was made to better align with the company’s acquisition strategy that is heavily focused on growth in the global consumer electronics audio business under the Philips brand.

Eeeh, I remember the days when Gibson were a guitar company.

Bridgehouse

Three-ColourSunburst said:

The decision was made to better align with the company’s acquisition strategy that is heavily focused on growth in the global consumer electronics audio business under the Philips brand.

Eeeh, I remember the days when Gibson were a guitar company.

Yeah but expensive posh guitar businesses don't pay for themselves y'know

ICBM

Gibson still have an 'acquisition strategy'?

I assume this works along the lines of deliberately becoming too big to be allowed to fail. They're already half a billion dollars in debt and their credit rating and outlook has recently been downgraded again...

guitarfishbay

ICBM said:

Gibson still have an 'acquisition strategy'?

I assume this works along the lines of deliberately becoming too big to be allowed to fail. They're already half a billion dollars in debt and their credit rating and outlook has recently been downgraded again...

Again again? Credit rating = Teletubbies

Freebird

Stuckfast said:

http://blog.cakewalk.com/cakewalk-announcement/

Almost unbelievably, this is the second long-established multitrack recording program they've killed off! That must be some sort of record in such a niche market.

What was the first?

ICBM

guitarfishbay said:

Again again? Credit rating = Teletubbies

Half a billion in debt and not enough income generated to repay it isn't though. And credit rating does impact that since it will affect the interest rates.

TTony

Separate threads merged and original thread moved to Studio & Recording.

Luminous

Freebird said:

Stuckfast said:

http://blog.cakewalk.com/cakewalk-announcement/

Almost unbelievably, this is the second long-established multitrack recording program they've killed off! That must be some sort of record in such a niche market.

What was the first?

Opcode.

Cirrus

I'm guessing whoever made this decision has an interest in some other similar product, and this is just sweeping up the competition. Sonar's never been any kind of industry standard or choice for professionals really. It's been a relatively competent DAW that squarely sits in the consumer/ home market and done well thanks to the high features/price ratio - in recent years you've got *a lot* of plugs, soft sythns and functionality for your money.

The upgrade paths have been incredible too - I remember back in 2007 buying an old copy of Sonar (maybe sonar 3?) to use the activation code to get the upgrade price to Sonar 7 pro, which was insanely cheap compared to the RRP. Then again, the upgrade cost to Sonar X3 pro was really low.

Didn't go onto the subscription model though, as I've always been cautious of those kind of rolling monthly outgoings. It'll be very interesting to see how people on that plan are treated in the coming months and years - even a couple of weeks ago people were buying a lifetime updates package in a sale, and as of this moment it's still possible to go on Cakewalk's website and buy Sonar without having any indication that it's now a dead product that'll never be developed further.

Jalapeno

Be interesting to see if they really do kill it or sell off to management (or somebody else) - original Tracktion developer bought all rights back after Mackie bollocksed it up ended development.