

This is the only presentation at Build that focuses on media, audio and MIDI. Cakewalk and Microsoft are doing a tech talk demonstrating how Win32 applications can take advantage of some of the advancements on the Windows 10 platform. Tech Talk – Cakewalk SONAR: Win32 lighting up on Windows 10Ī heads up for anyone attending the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle this year. It was great running into so many people from Microsoft and other tech companies like Adobe and Google who had used Cakewalk software. Both the keyboard and Jamstik were able to trigger different tracks without a problem. In the solutions spotlight session I paired a Jamstik controller in addition to the NanoStudio and it showed up as a second MIDI device. I also had a spot at the Solutions Spotlight at the event – kind of like NAMM for nerds! We had a small booth where we were showing SONAR and the technology and were available to answer questions. The audience enjoyed seeing breakpoints being hit in response to playing notes on the keyboard. I even did a live walk through of the Bluetooth UWP MIDI stack from the SONAR code. Pete let some people in the audience try playing the keyboard (a Korg Nanostudio) and everyone was impressed with how responsive playback was, even 20 feet away from the stage.

A bit nerve wracking doing a live demo with Bluetooth on a floor with thousands of people with BT devices 🙂 Fortunately everything went really smooth – BT MIDI performed flawlessly and I was able to connect from onstage and run at a buffer latency of less than 10 msec. There were two presentations of this session. It was an honor to be the only DAW vendor to present some of the great strides we have made in SONAR to take advantage of the best in Windows technology.īelow is the session Cakewalk SONAR: Win32 lighting up on Windows 10 Build 2017 was a blast – so much technology to absorb!
