Cakewalk was rescued by band labs

Get that song on tape! Errr... disk?
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Cakewalk was rescued by band labs

Post by jesterpunk68 » Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:48 am

Since Gibson is dying and killing off everything band labs managed to buy cakewalk and continue development of it.

https://www.gearnews.com/cakewalk-rescu ... fire-sale/
Cakewalk is dead. Long live Cakewalk! Says the newly formed Cakewalk.BandLab.com website. BandLab Technologies have announced that they acquired certain assets and the complete set of intellectual property of Cakewalk Inc from Gibson Brands.
As the troubled music giant looks for ways to raise cash it seemed obvious to all us commentators that selling Cakewalk to someone who cared about it would be a great way forward. At least it might have a chance of rescuing a gazillion Sonar users from a void of despair.
But who the hell are BandLab?
They are a collective of global music brands “with a vision to connect the world to music”. Apparently, their flagship product “BandLab” helps millions of creators make and share their music. Cool – never heard of it! Or have I? Hang on, they released a couple of small mobile audio interfaces last year and yes, they are the developers of an online DAW that runs on everything and is completely free. Well, that sounds pretty awesome.
Other parts of the collective include Mono instrument cases, Harmony guitars and Teisco effects pedals, so it’s a very interesting mix of products. They also have a very large stake in Rolling Stone magazine and Swee Lee, Asia’s leading online retailer and distributor of musical instruments and pro-audio. BandLab was only formed in 2016 and operates out of Singapore.
What does it all mean for Cakewalk users? Who knows, but Cakewalk has a wealth of technology developed over many years. Will BandLab take it apart to build something new or will they take it on and support it as a product or range of products moving forward? For the moment these things are unclear. But assuming all of the Cakewalk customer base hasn’t already moved on then it’s a very hopeful development.

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Re: Cakewalk was rescued by band labs

Post by jesterpunk68 » Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:53 am

This is a follow up to this previous post.

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Re: Cakewalk was rescued by band labs

Post by dezb1 » Sat Feb 24, 2018 7:22 pm

Good news - I used cakewalk from 1997 till it's demise and they were always very helpful, just generally nice folk glad someone has secured their jobs and their work.

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