Reply To: Some Insights on How We’re Doing

[Peter DeLegge]

On joegyork said

Thanks Peter, lamia6 and doug for your great work

Yes the Cakewalk Forums are very quiet nowadays!

I hope that everyone here keeps inviting folks from Cakewalk Forums here. While we have the majority of regular posters from Cakewalk Forums here, there’s still a bunch of people I miss from the Song Sharing Forum who haven’t come aboard. I would love to see them become a part of this community. As we open for public registration, I’m always going to hold a special place in my heart for the people who encouraged me as I attempted to play music again. My desire to have them here isn’t really about the growth of the site, it’s really purely just a very personal thing. Having such encouraging people around when I was attempting to play music again — frustrated that I can’t play at an acceptable level anymore, and still hearing encouragement. It was very meaningful to me. And I know that there was one member who also went through a similar experience — also with tendinitis — that was there that was going through the same thing, except she didn’t walk away from music and still had a lot of her chops. I want this community to encourage others. I thought that was an amazing and beautiful thing about that Song Forum.

Okay, I could just hear my teenage daughter telling me, “Dad, you’re getting cringe-y.” But that encouragement has meant a lot to me, and I suspect it means a lot to others. There’s a bunch of things that motivated me to do this forum. It started out of my wanting a place that wasn’t toxic like VI-Control, or KVR, to a much lesser extent. But Cakewalk Forum — especially the Songs forum — was really a special environment where hobbyist and semi-pro musicians were really encouraging one another and I really do hope that we can bring that to this community. We obviously love to buy stuff, and I assume that we’re all using it to make music. I think the next step is to encourage one another with that pursuit and step out and share what we’re doing in an environment where we’ll find supportive, like-minded people.

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