BandLab Technologies has announced a corporate rebranding of Cakewalk, along with plans to make the music production software more accessible to musicians.
Under the new structure, Cakewalk by BandLab will transition into Cakewalk, with two distinct products underneath: Cakewalk Sonar and Cakewalk Next.
The Cakewalk Sonar rebrand reintroduces the SONAR name for Cakewalk’s original DAW. With a significant UI refresh and a platform committed to ongoing feature development, Cakewalk Sonar will be focused on offering a best-in-class production experience on Windows desktop devices. This will include ensuring compatibility with legacy projects created in previous iterations of SONAR and Cakewalk by BandLab.
Cakewalk Next is described as a ‘user-centric music creation tool’, which will be available for Mac and Windows.
Midicake ARP is a 4-channel MIDI arpeggiator that lets you play multiple instruments, using sequences, arpeggiators and more – all in time with your other MIDI gear.
Midicake ARP is a MIDI sequence generator that offers 4 polyphonic channels, enabling you create complex musical patterns that can be controlled and manipulated in real-time. Each arpeggiator can operate as a pad, chord, or arpeggio; outputting MIDI independently or combined on a single channel.
MIDI Output is via USB and MIDI port with the potential to control 8 unique devices. It can operate as a standalone controller or can be clock synced to any MIDI master.
In Play-Mode, you act as composer and musician, directing the movement of the music through key and chord selection.
In Set-Mode, you configure each channel independently or as a group to change the way its channel will behave. All in real-time with the music.
And the unique step, jump and bounce controls take the possibilities beyond conventional arpeggiators into complex musical and rhythmical sequences that are at once complex and original, intriguing, and yet predictable.
The wide-ranging gate release and time division options offer huge scope, from short fast bass and lead lines to long meandering and varying melodies that can run for hours before repeating.
AVP shared this video demo of the SD-6, a compact analog drum synthesizer that they say is inspired by the drum machines/synthesizers of the 70s-80s.
Synthetic Drums SD-6 features six independent drum sound sections. It has 23 controls and 7 buttons to control the sound parameters and MIDI. It has five individual audio outputs, a mix output and six individual trigger inputs.
It can be controlled via MIDI or via the 6 individual trigger inputs.
Features:
Fully analog, using transistors and discrete components;
