Gibson kills off Cakewalk

[musicman691]

Saw news of this in another forum: http://www.cakewalk.com/Gibson-Announcement
I know we have some ex-Sonarites here; I myself got my start in digital recording with Sonar 3, then Sonar 5 and lastly Sonar 8. The s/w was originally called Cakewalk then Sonar. First daw s/w to have track freeze and other developments.

Now I know why they stopped development of a Mac version - must have seen the writing on the wall long ago.

[audioman1973]

Amazing! This was my first digital software also. Started out on the original cakewalk and still have Midi song files that were synced to an Alesis D4 drum machine and one of the old Roland desktop synths. I guess that’s how the ball bounces. Bigger companies have been eliminating the competition with buyouts for years. Even though I only use it to play my old songs back anymore I hate to see this.

[Drew Mazurek]

Gibson has a history of doing this.

They did it to Opcode.

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-hi...dave-oppenheim

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

Gibson has a history of doing this.

They did it to Opcode.

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-hi...dave-oppenheim

I remember that

Given that history I would have to guess they're not going to sell off the intellectual property and just consign Sonar and the synths they made for not just for Sonar users but other users to the dustbin of history.

[YYR123]

Wow, I remember editing songs for a CD with this software....late 90's early 2000's.

Really light stuff not major editing.....those CD's were all recorded on ADAT's....

[Top Jimmy]

Reminds me of what Tascam did to GigaStudio.

[noah330]

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Cakewalk-A...-m3687511.aspx

I used Cakewalk ProAudio years ago. Kind of sad to see this happen.

[Drew Mazurek]

M&A never benefit the consumer. Big business wins again.

[Dizzi45Z]

This is really sad to me. I used Sonar from Cakewalk ProAudio 9 through Sonar 1-8.5 and I am sad to see this happen. The developers were really on top of innovation and creative ideas. I left to Pro Tools out of the need for stability, dsp, and compatibility between local studios. I do love Pro Tools, but it is always sad to see a company go out of business that had so much passion to innovate. They were ahead of their time in many, many, aspects.

[Prabha]

It's very sad...