not to hard in terms of understanding the program and dialing everything in, but I had to relearn a lot of my workflows and shortcuts. The change from Cakewalk to Cubase was okay. also i just got my Focusrite Interface that came with a Cubase LE License. i asked a lot of people who make music what they used and most of them said cubase. When they announced that they won't support it anymore i wanted to switch to one of the big ones. I started recording with "Audacity" later got my first DAW from Steam (lol) called "Cakewalk Music Creator 6" it was a good DAW with clean interface. Irrespective of ancient history, if I were starting out, and rich, and using only VSTs and didn't mind the frequent crashes then, to be fair, Cubase probably is a little easier to use and get used to, at a cost, but to get such a powerful tool as the long-established Cakewalk for free is one of the best deals in the music industry and is a noble endeavour by Bandlab to help aspiring musicians create their art. Cakewalk is especially strong in its support for hardware instruments, for example.Ĭubase IS substantially more popular in professional circles, largely, I suspect because the tutorial support and manufacturer support for this commercial product is better, plus Cakewalk has an even steeper learning curve, with less tutorial assistance available and a slightly finnicky interface, but both, in their current incarnations, are extremely potent DAWs and if money is an issue for a (typically) impoverished musician then Cakewalk is most definitely NOT a toy, in much the same way that getting a Pilot's Licence is not a game, and is an excellent music production tool for a determined musician. and did so very well.Ĭubase and Cakewalk have always been competing products with each having benefits over the other in slightly different areas. and surprised everyone when they actually did. In 2018 Gibson went bust and Bandlab bought the majority of Cakewalk intellectual property announcing the intention to continue to develop it. Roland sold their Cakewalk shares to Gibson Brands in 2013 and in 2017 Gibson announced that they were no longer developing it. In fact, if someone had checked Wikipedia:Ĭakewalk 1.0 for DOS was released in 1987, and updated to run on Windows 3.0 in 1991.Ĭubase 1.0 was released for Atari ST in 1989.Įxactly as I remember it, Cakewalk came out (2 years) before Cubase.Ĭubase has benefitted from always having been a Steinberg product whereas Cakewalk was developed by Twelve Tone Systems Inc., with Roland taking majority ownership of it in 2008. As someone who cut their teeth on Cakewalk by Twelve Tone Systems Inc back in the day, it IS one of the very oldest. Can’t beat a $700 product for fucking free.Įxactly right. Cakewalk is a once-$700 product that the company Gibson sold it to while going bankrupt decided to flip the bird at them and give away for free instead. Bottom line is use whatever DAW you want cause it’s all the same shit in a different box. I’ve never ever personally felt the need to switch to any other DAW outside of just general feelings of “wow everyone is using FL maybe I should try FL too” but then I remember I have the hotkeys and interface of Cakewalk burned into my brain. But that’s nothing that a little bit of clever manual work can handle either. Only thing I’d change is a slightly better audio/sample editor, as AudioSnap is quite lacking/broken (won’t mess your sounds up or anything, some of the buttons just literally do not do anything when you click them lol). I’ve been using Cakewalk for like 12 years now probably and it gets absolutely everything you could ever need done with very few problems.
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