{"id":2260,"date":"2009-06-01T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:40:49","slug":"cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight-sparks-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/06\/01\/cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight-sparks-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Cakewalk Pro User Spotlight: Sparks the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to support and promote all the amazingly talented artists and producers that use our products, we are excited to announce the\u00a0<strong>Cakewalk Pro User (CPU)\u00a0Spotlight Series<\/strong> which will be posted here on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, more than ever, aspiring artists are taking control of their music creation to capitalize on what will be known as the independent music age. These independent spirits are taking their money saved for studio time and investing in their own future by purchasing the\u00a0studio tools themselves. With so many choices on the market, we salute the artists in this series who are capitalizing on SONAR&#8217;s unlimited track count, or the crystal clear sounds of Rapture, or the fat pre amps in the V-Studio 100 and the\u00a0V-Studio 700, or the&#8230; well, you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>Whether these CPU Spotlight artists are on a major or independent label, producing for labels, or simply doing their own thing, they all have\u00a0three\u00a0things in common: they&#8217;re all tremendously talented, they&#8217;re all doing their own thing and they all depend on the quality of Cakewalk products to achieve professional results.<\/p>\n<div><object width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/x9glvn_cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight-sparks_music&#038;related=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/x9glvn_cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight-sparks_music&#038;related=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x9glvn_cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight-sparks_music\">Cakewalk Pro User Spotlight: Sparks the Rescue<\/a><\/b><br \/><i>Uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/CakewalkInc\">CakewalkInc<\/a>. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/us\/channel\/music\">Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>CPU Spotlight #1: An interview with <strong>Sparks the Rescue<\/strong> at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey &#8211; Take one mic-swinging vocalist who throws himself to the floor, the crowd, the walls and into his band mates; add two guitarists providing vocals and an insane amount of movement; mix in a bassist with an impressive set of lungs providing screams and harmonies; and top it off with a rock-solid drummer holding it all down &#8211; this concoction renders Sparks the Rescue, a group of guys in their early 20&#8217;s from Portland, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Logging in over 200 shows throughout New England, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sparkstherescue\">Sparks the Rescue<\/a> has shared the stage with Hawthorne Heights, Just Surrender, As Tall As Lions, Dave Melillo, Roses Are Red, A Change of Pace, Showbread, Chiodos, A Static Lullaby, Saosin, Boys Night Out, Stretch Arm Strong, Emanuel, The Static Age, Glory of This, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>2007 saw the release of &#8216;The Secrets We Can&#8217;t Keep&#8217; digital EP, preceding a full-length album on Fearless Records which is available now in stores and on ITunes.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our first-ever Cakewalk Pro User Spotlight\u00a0featuring Sparks the Rescue\u00a0and stay tuned for more\u00a0in the near future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to support and promote all the amazingly talented artists and producers that use our products, we are excited to announce the\u00a0Cakewalk Pro User (CPU)\u00a0Spotlight Series which will be posted here on a regular basis. Right now, more than ever, aspiring artists are taking control of their music creation to capitalize on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/06\/01\/cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight-sparks-the-rescue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cakewalk Pro User Spotlight: Sparks the Rescue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,808,522],"tags":[368,55,600,139,56,276,143,809,331,26,412,123,520,810,131,162],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-news","category-cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight","category-v-studio-100","tag-album","tag-artist-news","tag-band","tag-bass","tag-cakewalk-pro-user-spotlight","tag-cpu","tag-drums","tag-fearless-records","tag-guitar","tag-music","tag-new-release","tag-production","tag-sparks-the-rescue","tag-stone-pony","tag-tour","tag-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}