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"Unlock Cakewalk Sonar with Membership" = $112 annual subscription. A "Bandlab Membership" includes Sonar and something like Distrokid (distribute to platforms and keep !00% of royalties). I'm about to spend the $112 for first year. Looking forward to your upcoming videos on Cakewalk Revealed! Thanks, Mike.

Gracias!!!

Unfortunately, today (7/3/2024) is the 1st time I saw this video. The Cakewalk Center no longer contains the file shown in this video to download except for Cakewalk Next. Is there anywhere someone may share the files shown in this video? Thanks.

Thank you so much, Mike. This video is very helpful.

I thought that there wasn't going to be any more updates for cakewalk? - Yet have update 2024.07 just pop up

Thank you VERY VERY much for this very easy and interesting introduction into "Next". I`m already working with it as well, and I am happy to have found something like a polished, professional version of the formerly really helpful "Magix Music Maker". That Music Maker has lost much of its worth since it has become a shop with a software instead of the opposite. But what I still like about is that there is a version you can buy and then really use as yours, independent of the monthly money you can spend. I`d love to have such a one-pay-Next-version with upgrades I can subscribe for as well. Even Reason has both, a one-buy-version as well as a version "for rent". Anyway: you now are my chosen Next teacher. I hope that one day I will be able to show my results to you (I am working with Arturia and Analog Lab, experimental, minimal electronic music, mostly even without a human singing voice or beats. Just to relax my musical mind, after the masses of commercial patterns made up from the opposite, from human voices and from beats). Have a nice day!

Very timely. Very helpful. Very much appreciated. Thanks, Mike!

I really enjoyed all the great cakewalk content on your channel over the last couple of years.... but a subscription model is really the wrong direction. I guess it works for some, but not being able to buy it outright means we own nothing.

Just hate the exaggerated British accent, hard to listen to

This sampler is so beyond basic that it isn't even worth putting in the package. I would just use the samples directly in the arranger. I'm kinda shocked they put this in the DAW package. This think barely merits existence...

Been reading some reviews that Sonar does not look as good as CW..... Is this true? And, if so, what else is not like CW?

Looks great!

Very important question: will this new Sonar FINALLY be able to "speak" in a normal way and without too much hassle with midi keyboards?

I instaled the new cakewalk sonar and I'm signed in to bandlab but they still tell that saving is disabled until I reactivate

Looks and sounds pointless

Mike, I hope you’re well. I’m trying to find any new info on Cakewalk Sonar- the purchase version not subscription. Any timeline? Thanks

Don’t really understand exactly what they’re going for here.. It certainly looks nice, to me better than the new Sonar because it’s less busy, yet it lacks some features and certain qualities that it should have. Why have two separate DAWs that almost do the same things, but not really? Why not combine it into 1 DAW that’s versatile? Also, why can’t you zoom in and out on each track to see the waveforms larger and smaller? It just seems like they had an opportunity to make something really new and cool, but it just misses. It’s lacking something I can’t put my finger on. It feels incomplete. And I find Sonar to look and feel too busy and messy for me.

Thank you so much - this is incredibly helpful!

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Thanks Mike! This is great news!

What Distrokid has bought Cakewalk from BandLab?

Is it different from Cakewalk by Bandlab, being called Sonar?

Thanks very much Mike, this clarifies a lot for me.

Is it correct that this is now subscription only and also released? If so i suppose its time for me and probably almost all of the user base to move on to other daws... Unfortunately.

This one's gonna be a make or break for me. I purchased Sonar Artist X3 back in the day, but I stopped using it because it wasn't as intuitive as, say, Reaper. I came back with Cakewalk by Bandlab, but if they end up making this a subscription-based program, I'm done. The UI didn't improve all that much, certainly not that much that I'm going to pay to deal with it. I'll just shift back to Reaper.

I've always had to use a 3rd party sampler with cakewalk, or the session drummer. It will be nice to have a dedicated sampler in cakewalk

So, is the new Sonar released yet?

Hi Mike, it appears that CW Sonar is only available with BL membership - which includes distribution in the membership fee. Will you be using it or continue with Distrokid? Might be worth a video to compare!

Good video, Mike! Just installed the NEW Sonar today.

In reading the comments, I am intrigued by Bandlab's decision to reuse the Sonar product brand naming convention if they have no intention of honoring the lifetime subscription customers for Cakewalk Sonar by Gibson. Are there any lawyers out there that have access to the original deal ts & cs and international precedent for companies acquiring assets and presumably not obligations as to whether there could be a class-action suit to require them to honor lifetime upgrades? I'm more interested from an academic standpoint since I just paid for a Bandlab sub, but this is intriguing and potentially rewarding.

awesome vid as always mike! would love to know more about x-sampler and seaparate instruments!

All this is fantastic information but I'd like to know if you can you drag in a clip straight from the arrange page?

By latest version I presume you mean the Beta not the free one?

Hi Mike, love your clear and concise videos. I am still waiting to find out how much sonar will cost as compared to $60 Reaper. any news on how much we will be looking at for Sonar.

No split at transients and play by midi? Then this sampler will be totally useless. Regards.

i learned how to make music in cakewalk sonar years ago. i love that they are back. definitely going to get this.

I hesitate to ask this as I can only how busy you are. I have been using cakewalk since pro audio 9. Last week for no reason that I can determine my spacebar stopped activating playback. It will not even play from the play icon in the control panel. Also I cannot record anything as the red record button only flashes but does not stay active. It is not hardware as I also have Studio One and everything works there perfectly. I have been working with Lois at Bandlab. She had me uninstall and reinstall...It solved the problem for 1 day, then back to useless. Any wisdom you have would be valued.

Thank you!

This is an important improvement for me so no need to use abelton or logic for a simpler/sampler! Yay

Great stuff Mike. Yes, please follow up with how we go about using seaprate instruments

It is similar to the Loop Constructor, but with more options. I hope they recover the Beatscape (and other plugins, of course).

XSampler is wrong name, Sampler: simple and clean. Cakewalk has to be smart because there are many daws on the market and all good. The first time it must bring the functions that are found in most daws: drag and drop, audio to midi, ara tools for audio, chord pads for a quick idea, control rooms for headphones mix, i could write a novel with lacks just to catch up with rest of the daws. Good luck with your work !

As always - clear, concise and easy to understand tutorial. Thanks Mike! I've never used a Sampler before, but will give XSampler a try - now that you've explained it!

1. Interesting ! 2. You say "No advanced features in the piano roll", but the long white on black menu you showed (3'55'' +/-) allow us to modify quite a lot of parameters from the piano roll ("clip inspector") IF I got it right . Is that so common ? 3. No score editor ??? In a daw which seems aimed primarily at songwriters and composers ? While there is one in CBB ? 4. For the moment, the only way to pay seems to buy a membership in Bandlab. Same for the coming Sonar. Will one have to pay for one or two memberships to have both ? - if you have any information about that. 5. Thanks a lot for the video !

Thanks Mike

Hello from Germany, thanks for your video, much infos to find. But I have a strange question: How does it sound? Meanwhile I have testet Cubase after using the BandLab-Version and I find it much more powerfull and better sounding... but so under-developed versus Sonar Platinum - it hurts and shows everyone the extreme high level of Sonar!

Thanks Mike. Watching carefully to the feedback before taking the leap.

Thank you so much, thanks to you i've learned how to get quality content in this daw; this has lead my projects to get hundreds of thousands of streams in platforms, thank you Mike!!

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