might be worthwhile to expand the table to clearly show the costs including:

1. purchase price for “perpetual license”
2. monthly subscription price(s) – DAW vs truly optional component and services
3. annual “maintenance / support fee” (if any)
4. version “upgrade fee” (if any)

for example, Studio One dropped all versions except “Pro”, so all users…Read More

another option is to open your projects and export all MIDI and audio so you have the raw materials to import into a new DAW sometime later. also good idea to create presets for the FX (esp if they’re 3rd party products which will persist). in general, this is a best archive practice regardless of application used… not just a DAW…

software giant Atlassian company just laid off 150 workers and replaced them AI (Thompson reporting). not sure what their roles were, but i should expect that as less skilled people learn to write decent-enough prompts and accept the (generally poor) quality of the output (and then put that into production) then more skilled people will become…Read More

long term – if you’re in the business for a livelihood – you’re doomed. the entertainment business has been looking for a way to exploit all the previous works and generate “new” content for as low cost as possible including no commissions, no royalties etc. for, oh, 60 year or so. AI with all the content available to harvest, and some creative…Read More

i hope Cakewalk Sonar isn’t going to be pulled soon. i have almost 18 starbucks coffees invested over the past 6 months…

lol.

pretty sure people who use CbB will find the free version of Sonar to be quite good, and free. same for Next. the upgrade to free Sonar is easy, free, and effective. 97% of people making the switch agree.