Over 20 years later, things look different. My first time I saw it was in the 90s, too, but that time I was not thinking about getting into music that deep. Maybe start with Cakewalk by Bandlab?Ĭlick to expand.Hey, you seem to know nearly as much about Cakewalk as the developers. So for now I start the majority of my projects in Studio One, but if I need to finish something really quickly, or need a feature that I know is absent in Studio One I will work in Cakewalk by Bandlab.īoth platforms have their strengths.

But I will always have that worry in the back of my mind. I think Noel and company are still doing a stellar job, and I will probably never abandon Cakewalk/Sonar. I still have the last version of Sonar Platinum installed, and I have been updating Cakewalk by Bandlab as well. DP was still a bit 'young' under Windows, but Studio One was mature, and getting better with each release. I had been toying around with Studio One and Digital Performer. And then everything fell apart, and Cakewalk was no more. I watched Sonar mature, even did the lifetime subscription thing when it was offered. I was a beta tester for them for over 10 years. I've used Cakewalk since it was Cakewalk Pro Audio sometime in the late 1990s.

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