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A short post on Cakewalk's death and my music production

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2017-11-25
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Death of Cakewalk

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+Cakewalk died.
+Imagine your old trustworthy friend suddenly passed away.
+It started as the feeling in a harsh winter.
+Then there was anger.
+But finally it all ended in pure voidness.
+So long, Cakewalk! +
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+As stated by Gibson +here, +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. +

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+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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+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. +

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+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. +

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+And then it was the saddening story at the beginning of this article. +

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+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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My music production

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+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. +

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+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. +

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Future choice of DAW

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+Cubase 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. +

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+Reaper looks nice and is fairly priced. Might have a try later on. +

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+FL Studio. Doesn't feel right for me. +

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+OpenMPT? ... +

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+Vocaloid. That's not a DAW. +

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+Contact me if you have other suggestions. +

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