It's a no-brainer, unless you've already written it off regardless. If you didn't, you have 85% of what was in it - for free. If you had SPLAT, you have 99.9% in it that works fine with CbB. I don't get the 'it's free, it's crap' mentality here. This app, except for the extra plugins that came with Platinum, is a full featured DAW that's worth hundreds of dollars that people can now use for free. Navigate your projects with the award-winning fully customizable Skylight Interface. Cakewalk by BandLab and all its world-leading features are available free-to-download via the BandLab Assistant client for Windows - your central hub on your desktop for your musical creative process. The former is expected, and the latter is actually a very smart marketing idea. The most complete music production software for Windows PC. None of those things are any kind of surprise.

So the early release version of the software is finding its feet just several days in on its initial release, and you don't like a name which already has a strong brand presence associated with this product. You know whats going to happen to this free ware?

No effort was put into that cakewalk by bandlab lol too many syllables. Not interested! Also was disappointed with the name. Doesn't look good, I think I will pass on Cakewalk for bandlab.

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