Speaking of Cakewalk, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users can now use Dimension Pro and Rapture with Apple’s latest OS. (I have to admit, I was unaware they weren’t working together, but there you go.) That’s not the interesting news, though. More unusual: Cakewalk’s SONAR demo was on Windows XP running in Boot Camp on Apple hardware — a Mac Pro tower beneath the booth and a less-discreet pair of Apple Cinema Displays. MacBooks demoed Cakewalk’s soft synths natively on Leopard. I still have no audio-specific reason to advocate upgrading to Leopard at the moment, but good to know. And it’s clear that the once mostly PC-only developer is now making sure its instruments get shared by both platforms.
It's nice to see more DAWs showing multi OS platform support.
Sounds to me like on the soft-synths are multi-platform. SONAR is only mentioned running through Boot Camp.
aww. the headline got me excited. i still think of sonar as "cakewalk" sometimes.
Cakewalk's products already will run on a Mac with Parallels installed. Sufficient hard drive space is about the only other requirement that must be considered since many Mac laptops traditionally have only 80GB HD.
I have been running Sonar 6 Producer on my macbook for a while now (via Vista w/ bootcamp) just to convert my old sonar projects to OMF/Pro Tools. It would be nice if Sonar did run on Leopard though… it would save me a few steps lol. Vista/Leopard/Sonar macbook > OMF > to Pro Tools Mac running OS X 10.4…… = a pain in the arse! Too bad it takes a year for digidesign to catch up to Apple!