Roland Acquiring Cakewalk

Roland is aquiring a larger portion of Cakewalk/SONAR. The logo has already been changed. Cakewalk News - Letter from Greg Hendershott

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I'm a heavy Cakewalk user, and I'm hoping this will mean good things (as far as R&D dollars going into Cakewalk). Unfortunately Roland's plug-ins that are a bundled part of Cakewalk today (V-Vocal, and a few virtual synths) are just not that good. V-Vocal reduces the sound quality of the files you alter with it (often injecting pops), and the synths just don't seem as modern and useful as the Cakewalk Dimension series or other 3rd party synths. Hopefully this means they'll improved and integrate their plug-ins to come on par with Autotune and Melodyne.

I am actually toying with moving to Logic on a Mac because a fair number of professional studios are using it in addition to ProTools. Logic seems to be on par with Cakewalk except on the Mac side. No So. California major recording studio uses anything but Macs (and generally ProTools). Logic has a lot good included plug-ins/synths plus "freeze" functionality that is so cool on Cakewalk. Logic is a better platform to work on when exchanging files with Macs on ProTools....plus it has "Apple" behind them.

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I love my Roland Cube 60, and I use Sonar (v6) weekly to edit/mix 24 track recordings down to stereo, so I think this will be good. I kinda wish they'd pickup the Sony Soundforge product too because alot of the add-ins I use in Sonar came in from Soundforge.

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