WHY IS CAKEWALK BY BANDLAB FREE FOR FREE
WHY IS CAKEWALK BY BANDLAB FREE INSTALL
WHY IS CAKEWALK BY BANDLAB FREE UPGRADE

Reaper is a royal pain in the jack until you.ĭelete all of its menus (Tick keep originals in sub menu, or whatever it is called) then systematically add things to the menus whenever you cant find something you would expect to be there (Trust me this will change your life, a DAW that works how you want to work)Ĭhange mouse modifiers (Same applies as above, make the mouse do the things you expect it to, no other DAW can do this)įind a theme from the theme forum that doesn't make you puke (Default theme is very vomit inducing)

To be fair Reaper is free to use, the developer has stated clearly plenty of times, if you cant afford it, use it, pay for it when you can.

WHY IS CAKEWALK BY BANDLAB FREE UPGRADE

If it wasn't good enough to compete and garner any real sales (Lets not forget 'Lifetime upgrades for ever and ever and ever if you upgrade now' months later 'We are closing down Cakewalk') when it was actively developed, why would it be good enough now it is free and will only get developed when it can promote something else entirely. Heres a simple gauge for anybody to consider. No comparison to Reaper at all to be honest. It isn't and wont be going forward at any great pace, but if you like the package use it, it has very few issues you cant work around easily enough if you want free and fairly feature packed.

WHY IS CAKEWALK BY BANDLAB FREE FOR FREE

To be honest, the only reason Bandlab are able to give it away for free is because nobody else wanted it, it was a dead duck the second Roland sold it, Roland have zero money issues, but they choose to get shot of the brand as soon as they could when they failed to find any developers who thought that it was viable to port Sonar with all of its issues, add to this the fact that the Cakewalk brand was actually a hinderance to hardware sales, Roland wanted out quick fast, and we all know what happens to anything that is sold to Gibson, its where technology companies go to die, luckily they are now dying themselves. It's community is/was very poor and very uppity to say the least 'We are better than everybody else because we began on DOS' etc etc

WHY IS CAKEWALK BY BANDLAB FREE INSTALL

It is way more bloated than Reaper, not only in install size, but also resource usage. It is not as easy to use as Reaper once you have Reaper set up (Nothing is) There are other issues with RAM and CPU etc, however it does have a really cool feature set and even has some super slick performance options thanks to the Roland years.

It will stay Windows only, so it will never compete with Reaper on any cross platform software, various developers have come and gone after going through the code and 'apparently' it is near impossible to port to any other platform without a complete rewrite, which it will not be getting any time soon from Bandlab.

Why is cakewalk by bandlab free