Reply To: Bandlab Raises Price of Cakewalk Sonar Subscription to $179 Per Year

[Brian]

I remember buying Greg Hendershott’s sequencer software decades ago when I am pretty sure he was a one man shop.  12 Tone Systems was the company name.  I don’t remember if he called it Cakewalk at first, but I do remember that it grew into “Cakewalk”.  Anyway-  Time keeps flowing, and products adapt or die (or are murdered after acquisition).  I only went back to Cakewalk for a few months a few years ago when I hit a hardware compatibility problem with Studio One (which they eventually fixed).

There are still a LOT of DAWS out there, and I think there is merit in using one that supports the DAW Project format.  This is a DAW agnostic project file spec. I have experimented with it, and while it is not drag and drop easy to convert projects,  it’s a whole lot easier way to get MIDI and audio tracks from one supported DAW to another instead of exporting/importing bits & pieces.  Currently I am only aware of support built in to Cubase, Studio One, and Bitwig.  I also think it speaks to the self-confidence of developers who support it.  Moss wrote his own free DAW Project converter tool for Reaper.  I had some old Reaper files that I would have liked to convert but it was hit and miss for me.