Cakewalk: Making Music with Sonar

Posted By: Charles | Jul 5th, 2007 @ 10:47 AM

The guys at Cakewalk are passionate about music and providing the technology that enables audio enthusiasts & professionals to create great music. Noel Borthwick, Cakewalk CTO and Carl Jacobson, Woldwide Marketing Director, spend some time with Inside Out talking about their lessons learned as an early Vista adopter for their audio application Sonar, which also is the only application of its kind for the 64-bit platform.

They also talk candidly about the development process and experiences with managed code, certification documentation and virtualization.

Tags: 64-bit, Application Compatibility, Audio, Drivers, Partner, Windows Vista

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Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Hey Charles. So far, having watched 1 minut, i like it. The way the camera switches the view, i think thats really cool.
I like the black background. We get to see the actual person.

And i must say that the video and audio quality is WAY better than anything i have ever seen on channel9!

Wow, this rocks! Cool

Charles
Welcome Change

This was filmed in our studio and edited by one of the best shooters in the buisness (Bob Snyder). You will see more of this style in the future!

Glad you like it. Of course, you will also continue to see the usual style, which is our trademark Smiley

Mixing it up,
C

Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Did anyone else notice that the volume dropped at 23:37 or so?

Despite that its good stuff Cool

Richard.Hein
... my guitar gently weeps ...

Sweet. I wonder if they have heard of the .NET Micro Framework for realtime, and what they make of it?

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

I look forward to watching this when I get a chance.

I recently bought Sonar (replacing my old version of ProTools LE), in part because of Cakewalk's forward looking commitment to compatibility with Vista.

Even though I have yet to move my DAW system to Vista, I felt reassured that they had already done the work needed before I even purchased it (and that others would no doubt reveal any remaing problems before I eventually make the switch Smiley

PocketXP
More Cowbell

>> I recently bought Sonar (replacing my old version of ProTools LE)

How does it compare to ProTools LE?

ProTools is the market share leader.

Do you think Cakewalk has a shot at gaining market share?

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

>> How does it compare to ProTools LE?

For reasons I can't recall now, I never found PTLEs UI to be very conducive to composing music, which is what I wanted a DAW for. I also didn't much like it visually (the tiny aliased fonts were ugly and various cross-platformisms were a turn off). Sonar 6's UI is very flexible and customizable. You can get most everything you need while recording and editing on screen at once. It has better MIDI tools, which I wanted for putting together drum parts. It also came with a bunch of plugins bundled, which PTLE didn'twhen I bought it.

I also wanted to break free of having my audio interface (Mbox) tied to my DAW software. Upgrading PTLE would have required me to buy new hardware with a newer version of PTLE included. With Sonar I can pick from a wider set of hardware to replace my Mbox when I feel the need.

>> ProTools is the market share leader.
They're mainly that because of their high end DSP based systems and inertia. I suppose it can be handy in some cases to work in the same project format as the "big studios" though. I'm not to worried about that with my projects.

>> Do you think Cakewalk has a shot at gaining market share?

Sure, why not!

Cyonix
Me

Interesting video,

thanks

Edit: I also agree with the MSI documentation, need more information about how to do more advanced setups

dentaku

It's been a while since I've seen a good video like this on C9.
Of course I've always like Sonar so it's a subject I was already familiar with but it was also great to hear their requests for the Vista team to try and make it even better.

http://www.crossfader.com/ has some more info about Sonar and interviews with people who use it if anyone's interested.