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authorGravatar Chris Xiong <chirs241097@gmail.com> 2024-06-22 19:59:16 -0400
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-Cakewalk died.<br>
-Imagine your old trustworthy friend suddenly passed away.<br>
-It started as the feeling in a harsh winter.<br>
-Then there was anger.<br>
-But finally it all ended in pure voidness.<br>
-So long, Cakewalk!
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-As stated by Gibson
-<a href="https://www.cakewalk.com/Gibson-Announcement">here</a>,
-Cakewalk was SIGKILL'ed, perhaps due to insufficient resources,
-or a dangling pointer. Anyway, it was finally killed, with all
-development and vending activity ended.
-</p>
-<p>
-I encountered Cakewalk in 2009, when I was skimming through an old
-magazine on computer software from 1998. There was an article about
-Cakewalk Pro Audio 5.0. Back then I was using a piece of software
-called "Music Maker DX" to edit MIDI files. After that I started
-using CWPA 9.0, which was, obviously, pirated. I used external
-synthesizer such as Timidity to produce audio files, because I had
-no idea about what I was really doing at that time.
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-<p>
-I thought CWPA 9.0 was the last version of Cakewalk, and that Cakewalk
-has long been dead, until somewhere in 2011 I found that they had
-renamed their product to SONAR. So I tried SONAR 6 (which is, again,
-pirated) and was fascinated immediately.
-</p>
-<p>
-In 2014, I started to try (pirated) SONAR X2 Producer. After a (really
-long) trial period of a year or so, in 2015, I finally purchased SONAR
-Professional from Steam. Soon after, I got the SONAR Platinum Lifepass,
-which hopefully is a penance of my earlier piracy. I made my major
-production during this period.
-</p>
-<p>
-And then it was the saddening story at the beginning of this article.
-</p>
-<p>
-I've tried multiple DAWs, namely FL Studio, Cubase and even OpenMPT
-(which is actually a tracker). Only SONAR deserves the words "it just
-feels right" for me. It is also my first time feeling saddened by the
-death of a proprietary software. If Microsoft ceased the development
-of Windows, I would be much happier.
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-<h2 id="tocanch1" class="tvis">My music production</h2>
-<p>
-I'm going to pause any music production of mine, not only to mourn the
-death of Cakewalk, but also due to my lack of time and inspiration.
-</p>
-<p>
-Most of my current works are arrangements and "reverse engineering"
-(「耳コピ」) of Touhou project's in-game music, with a few original
-but mostly unfinished works. Therefore, to review the basic music
-theory, regain my piano skills and to learn from the works of great
-predecessors might be the most appropriate choice for me. Although
-I have an extremely small range of audiences, it's my duty to make
-sure that they won't be pissed off after listening to my works.
-So I guess those steps are also a must before resuming my identity
-of a music producer.
-</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch2" class="tvis">Future choice of DAW</h2>
-<p>
-<b>Cubase</b> is another classic DAW. It's even older than Cakewalk.
-It has aggressive DRM measures, which makes Steinberg much safer
-from piracy than Cakewalk. Apparently that DRM is also the center
-of controversy over Steinberg. I've got many of Steinberg's instruments.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>Reaper</b> looks nice and is fairly priced. Might have a try later on.
-</p>
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-<b>FL Studio</b>. Doesn't feel right for me.
-</p>
-<p>
-<b>OpenMPT</b>? ...
-</p>
-<p>
-<b><s>Vocaloid</s></b>. That's not a DAW.
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-Contact me if you have other suggestions.
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