SONAR Premium Day 4

Greg giving his welcome speech

So we went back to Japan and this time it was to demo to over 870 people! It was a fantastic day in the heart of Akihabara. Roland Japan did a great job in putting the event on.The event kicked with a video from Alex discussing the new features of SONAR 8.5. Greg then gave a great speech on new technologies like Windows7 and of course SONAR. Then it was on to our demo. Brandon ran an i7 machine running Windows 7 (64-bit) and a VS-700 and I was running a quadcore vista (32-bit) with a VS-100. The demos went off without a hitch. The final part of our demo was a performance with Brandon playing leads with Rapture on his rig while I triggered the Matrix on mine.

The entrance to the show

Following our demo various Roland Japan  staff and guest demonstrators gave demos covering various parts of SONAR and the V-Studio 700 and 100. They did an excellent job and both Brandon and I learned some demo tips and tricks.

This is the view from the stage. (shaky pic sorry)

There were three demo areas, the street entrance running VS-100 and SONAR VS, a mid hall stage for VS-700 and the main stage at the end of the hall.

A big thank you to everyone involved in making the event such a success. Below are three videos that show the demo Brandon and I gave. Hope you enjoy!

 

Brandon right before we go on stage

 

V-Studio is on Tour along with SONAR 8.5

The V-Studio 700 includes everything you need to turn your studio into a modern music production powerhouse. The V-Studio 700 features the VS-700c, VS-700r, Rapture and SONAR 8.5. Come see the V-Studio in action along with SONAR 8.5 at the following locations.

SONAR 8.5 and V-Studio Clinic Dates:

United States

California
Thursday, October 29, 2009 Guitar Center Hollywood 7425 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA 323-874-1060 Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm Register	Saturday, November 14, 2009 West LA Music Expo 11345 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA Register	Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Guitar Center La Mesa 8825 Murray Dr. La Mesa, CA Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM Register
Colorado
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Guitar Center Denver 1585 S. Colorado Blvd. Denver, CO Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM Register
Florida
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Guitar Center Hallandale, FL 1101 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd Hallandale, FL Time: 6:00 – 8:00PM Register
Georgia
Thursday, November 12, 2009 Guitar Center Atlanta 1485 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA Time: 6:00 – 8:00PM Register
Illinois
Thursday, October 22, 2009 Sam Ash Buffalo Grove 1305 W Dundee Rd Buffalo Grove, IL (847) 253-3151 Time: 6:30 – 7:30 Register
Indiana
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Sam Ash Indianapolis 8284 Center Run Drive Indianapolis, IN 317-577-3006 Time: 6:30 – 7:30pm Register
Massachusetts
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Guitar Center Boston 1255 Boylston St. Boston, MA Time: 6:00 – 8:00PM Register
Maryland
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Guitar Center Towson 1524 E. Joppa Rd. Towson, MD 410-821-5200 Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm Register	Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center 11151 Veirs Mill Road Wheaton, MD 301-946-8808 Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm Register
Missouri
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Guitar Center Independence, 3911 Bolger Road Independence, MO 816-373-9191 Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm Register
Nevada
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Guitar Center Las Vegas 6587 S. Las Vegas Blvd. STE B172 Las Vegas, NV Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM Register
New York
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Guitar Center Manhattan 25 W. 14th Street Manhattan, NY Time: 6:00 – 8:00PM Register
Oregon
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Guitar Center Clackamas 13029 Southeast 84th Ave Clackamas, OR Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm Register
Tennessee
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Best Buy Memphis 2755 Germantown Pkwy Memphis, TN (901) 373-8787 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM Register	Thursday, October 29, 2009 Guitar Center Nashville, 721 Thompson Lane Nashville, TN 615-297-7770 Register
Texas
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Central Austin, TX (W. Anderson Ln) 2525 West Anderson Lane Suite 200 Austin, TX Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM Register	Thursday, November 12, 2009 Guitar Center Arlington 721 Ryan Plaza Dr. Arlington, TX Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM Register	Friday, November 20, 2009 Guitar Center Houston 8390 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX Time: 7:00 – 8:30PM Register
Washington
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Guitar Center Seattle 530 Westlake Ave Seattle, WA Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm Register

Music Master Japan releases video on 8.5

In this video brandon and I take you through some of the new features of SONAR 8.5.

Do you want to learn more about our little trip to Japan?

Here’s a video I put together that has some info for you. It’s amazing what 2 laptops, jet lag, coffee and a few hours can do.

I know I am a bit jet lagged when i can’t spell X-ray. I just do not have the energy to fix it, sorry.

Matrix View

Brandon was able to get a few seconds of my matrix perfromace onto cell phone video.

What’s for dinner?

The dinner menu

No seriously, what is on the menu?

It turned out to be an awesome dinner that even had fried chicken!

Filming in Japan – pt 2

We went down down down...

On the first day the focus was showing the new features in SONAR. I was able to finish my parts and today Brandon gets to be in the spotlight with the VS-700 and the new SONAR features.

The door to the film studio

Our friends at Roland Japan have renamed the studio we film in to the V-Studio.

I have to say I am addicted to the Matrix view. I have been using it as a scratch pad to arrange backing tracks before recording lead instruments like guitar. What I really love is  “performing” my songs and playing them like an instrument, you can put new life into existing songs so easily. After filming the camera crew ran up to the keyboard to play with triggering the matrix. It was great to see this kind of response!

Brandon checking the levels

The Cakewalk Twitter Feed as RSS

Twitter – A useful tool for short descriptive messages or the sign of the apocalypse?

As an example I added the Cakewalk Twitter feed to my blog. By selecting the RSS feed (icon) on the Twitter page I can then subscribe to the feed and get all the updates without ever going to Twitter again. You can see this in the right side of this blog.

You can also take that RSS subscription and add it to pages like igoogle and other sites that read RSS or even most mail programs.

Of course you can just go to the forums and wait 30sec after the Twitter post hits and get your updates there.

In Japan filming videos

Well Brandon and I are in Japan to film some videos for the upcoming release. We will be focusing on the new features and also showing the VS-700 taking advantage of the new features.

7am Logan airport

We got in last night. For those of you who don’t know it’s about a 16 hour journey to get from the US East coast to Tokyo so we are a little shredded. Once we got to Narita airport we only have a 90 minute bus ride to the hotel.

Brandon gets the bus ticket

More updates later.

NAB Show

Heading off to the NAB show today. Hope to see some of you there. Cakewalk will be in two places at the show, the Roland Systems Group booth and also the B&H booth. Both locations will be showing the VS-700.