Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Dislike Passport [Encore, Master Tracks]
From: pirk@mdcbbs.com
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:07:59 GMT
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: teague

This is a re-post of my original reply that did not seem to make it...

In article <1992Apr7.223956.2449@picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.oz.au>, you write:
|> stevek@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Steve Kauder) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >Finally, I already have their sequencer, Master Tracks Pro for Windows.
|> >They just sent me an upgrade offer to their latest version.  Only $199
|> >for a package that only cost me $275.  I'd rather wait and buy Cakewalk
|> >for Windows than pay very nearly the purchase price for an upgrade.
|> >[FYI, their latest letter, only $149!]
|> 
|> >I think these guys need to wake up before they lose me and other customers.
|> 
|> 
|> Steve
|> 
|> I've just ordered Cakewalk 4 even though I'm not ecstatic about it.  I'm
|> waiting for either the Windows version or for Cubase for PC to come out.
|> I was told that I'd be able to upgrade to Cakewalk for Windows cheep but of
|> course nobody would say how much.  From what you've said I'm not so sure now.
|> Got any information on how Twelve Tone systems are handling upgrades?
|> 
|> Have you seen a demo of Cakewalk for Windows?  If so I'd appreciate comments
|> We in Oz don't get to see most products until well after they've been
|> released in the US. 
|> many thanks
|> -----------------------------------------------------------

Gents,
Being a CakewalkPro owner for about a year, I was very happy to hear about
the Windows Version.  It will be called WinCake (spelled as it sounds?), and
I was promised that it will ship the last week in April, first week in May.
  I have ordered the upgrade, and am on the list to ship.  The policy is 
not to bill Visa/MC until the product is shipped.  The upgrade for registered
Cake Pro owners is $75.00, and you can keep and use your old 4.0.  The prices
shown are what I was quoted (plus $5.00 s&h) for the PRO upgrade.  I think
the Non-Pro upgrade is $100.00, but don't quote me on this item.
  You have to understand, that for the Cakewalk upgrade, you are really 
getting a whole new program.  Some of the features (without waxing TOO much :-)

Complete Windows 3.1(required) support w/MPC
Sequence memory limited only to avail extended/expanded 
                            (look out Tangerine Dream, 45 minute songs! :-)
All 128 midi sliders availiable on screen w/real time record/playback control
Graphical entry/editing of midi cont controller data
Built in Music scoring program that can be updated automatically as you edit
 the sequence, or edit the score, and update the midi file (one would think,
 so no quotes on this one either! ;^)
Full Multimedia support... At NAMM, the board was playing a song, and 
  triggering sound file playback from Turtle Beaches Multisound card, all 
   with real time pan control.

I waxed enough,  I was so impressed, that I upgraded my P.C. to a 486  :~)
  Please remember, that Twelve Tone and Microsoft are recommending minimum
386 P.C.s w/2 meg.  This is more of a Windows issue than WinCake, but 
Twelve Tone has to follow what the big guys say.  I think that a new standard
is about to be set. (I know, I said I wouldn't wax any more....  :-)


Steve Pirk
pirk@mdcbbs.com
Cypress CA
These opinions are my own... not those of Electronic Data Systems....