Gibson buying Cakewalk

[musicman691]

Actually ran into this over on the EW/Soundsonline forum - Gibson is buying Cakewalk. For the few that don't know Cakewalk are the ones that put out Sonar daw software (and a few other things). See this article:
http://www.cakewalk.com/Press/releas...+2013+-+Gibson
Apparently according to this release a new Tascam Professional Software division is being created and that is where Cakewalk/Sonar is going. A couple of things I wonder about (ex-Sonar user here): did Gibson make Roland an offer they couldn't refuse or is Roland in trouble? Really it's only been a couple of years that Roland bought Cakewalk. And given Gibson's past history of killing off companies and products they buy - what's to come of Cakewalk?

[John_Toolbox]

Opcode.

The End.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

Opcode.

The End.

Exactly. Cue some Doors music.

[John_Toolbox]

Not sure if this will be as big of loss to the pro audio world as studio vision and the opcode midi interfaces were, but I would definitely be nervous if I were a Sonar/cakewalk user.

[Philthy]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

Not sure if this will be as big of loss to the pro audio world as studio vision and the opcode midi interfaces were, but I would definitely be nervous if I were a Sonar/cakewalk user.

I still have an Opcode USB midi interface in my ProTools HD rig.

[albee1952]

Yeah, knowing Henry, this could be the end of that "walk"

[John_Toolbox]

Sold all of my studio 4s and studio 5s several years ago, but kind of regret not keeping one around. Every so often I run into a situation where I could have used it for routing midi.

[YYR123]

Why the heck would they buy it to kil it off ?

Maybe we r gonna get a Gibson variety of the peavy revolver

[John_Toolbox]

Originally Posted by YYR123

Why the heck would they buy it to kil it off ?

Maybe we r gonna get a Gibson variety of the peavy revolver

I don't think they bought opcode with the intention of killing it off, and there are various theories as to why opcode was killed off, but regardless of what actually happened the history is still there so it makes us all a bit nervous when we see gibson buy a DAW company.

Someone told me that opcode's programmers ended up at apple, which would definitely explain why audio midi setup looks so reminiscent of OMS.

[sunburst79]

Robot Guitar anyone?

Hey, While your whittling out all that tone wood and reducing it to sawdust on the shop floor why not install a full blown DAW in the control cavity.

While I doubt this will end well Henry J does seem to have the ear of the bankers. So its entirely possible that there's some good IP that needs a financial shot in the arm to be brought to market.

While I don't have any interest in Sonar I would hate to see a long time player founder in the market. Competition is always a good thing.