Am I sailing in a sinking ship?

There was always a buzz about the place, but after the initial relief that BandLab rescued Sonar it feels as though many people have left. There has been an absence of activity and I get the feeling that many people have left. Am I the only one who feels this way?

I do not believe this forum is accepting new users.
The sooner BandLab can bring up the new forum and decommission this one the better.

Viamichael
There was always a buzz about the place, but after the initial relief that BandLab rescued Sonar it feels as though many people have left. There has been an absence of activity and I get the feeling that many people have left. Am I the only one who feels this way?

I do not feel that way, it's quiet but not loud. :)
If you go over to Bandlab, you will notice that the demographics over there is a bit different compare to the average Cakewalk user. I think it will be very interesting when things are fully integrated.

But as pointed out, things are predominately working fine, meaning people are more into creating music rather than coming on here.

Part of it may be that CbB, in my opinion, is the most stable crash free version in many years. This is no accident, Noel and others have worked hard to achieve this.  I've used Cakewalk since 1992 and have seen a lot of bugs and instability. IN my setup I immediately noticed a difference and this has continued for about 6 months. I've been using 2018.07 for a month and am very pleased.

scook
I do not believe this forum is accepting new users.
The sooner BandLab can bring up the new forum and decommission this one the better.

it's kind of ironic when they are a social media company, etc, i'm genuinely surprised they didn't prio #1 the forum migration, but maybe the diff was just too big

pwalpwal

scook
I do not believe this forum is accepting new users.
The sooner BandLab can bring up the new forum and decommission this one the better.

it's kind of ironic when they are a social media company, etc, i'm genuinely surprised they didn't prio #1 the forum migration, but maybe the diff was just too big

My theory is that because so many users were trying out Studio One, Reaper & Mix Craft, they wanted to prioritise getting CbB out there ASAP to prove to everyone it's still alive and continuing to be worked on.

pwalpwal

msmcleod

pwalpwal

scook
I do not believe this forum is accepting new users.
The sooner BandLab can bring up the new forum and decommission this one the better.

it's kind of ironic when they are a social media company, etc, i'm genuinely surprised they didn't prio #1 the forum migration, but maybe the diff was just too big

My theory is that because so many users were trying out Studio One, Reaper & Mix Craft, they wanted to prioritise getting CbB out there ASAP to prove to everyone it's still alive and continuing to be worked on.

ok, fair enough, they did that, quite easily i expect as it's basically just the post-gibson builds of sonar, time has passed, so what about the rest of it?

Bearing in mind everything on BandLab is free at the moment, I guess they're working on a new website to cope with purchases - i.e. all the other Cakewalk products like Rapture Pro, Z3TA 2, Pro Channel modules etc. Part of this will be to also migrate all the current users' products, as well as new authentication methods etc, as well as a new forum.
 
The BandLab Assistant seemed a bit rushed to my mind, and there was loads of bug reports on it, so I guess they want to take their time to get this right.
 
Any website that has to deal with online payments takes a HUGE amount of testing. When I did PayPal integration on my website, it took ages to go through what I thought was every combination of transactions, and I still ended up with outliers that weren't handled properly.
 

I have noticed that there isn't the activity that there once was, but then after the initial bandlab takeover news died down there hasn't really been much to discuss. The "new" version is just Platinum with a new name and a couple of minor tweaks and as has been said the forum has not been accepting new users for some time now, so all the new customers generated by bandlab are not here. 
 
I am surprised that this forum is still going. I thought the new one would have been up quicker for the benefit of the noobs as they must all have 101 questions, but I guess taking time to get it right is better than a rushed thing that doesn't work well. My main concern with that would be that the noobs who have problems and can't join the forum and can't figure out how to reslove issues will just move on to another software because this one cost them nothing in the first place, so they have little reason to persevere if it's not working for them, which would be a shame for all concerned.
 

Last week we got a couple .cal script updates from a user. That was cool.

Not sure about a sinking ship but of cause your right when you say many people have left. Don't get me wrong as I love cakewalk, but like many people stated including myself, they will learn another DAW because they will never place all eggs in one basket from now on. So I think it's correct to say as part of their new learning curve, again like myself, they are dividing available time between different forums like Reaper or Studio One for example. 

I thought the new forum would be up and running by now. (You made a great point Pawl)
 
I also thought that the new store would be open by now.
 
With that said, Craig makes an excellent point!

What I liked about Sonar were the constant updates. Sure, there were bugs and it has been very stable for me, but there has been little to get excited about. Am I missing something?

It’s a fast paced world and people like me who have been using Cakewalk since the floppy disk days can attest to the fact that DAWs have advanced at an amazing pace. I have been thrilled with Sonar (I am a former lifetime member, that was a good feeling while it lasted), but I get the feeling that our stable ship has been coasting through the seas and in a year or two we will be bailing out the water caused by the bigger and faster DAWs running circles around us.

I really don’t have plans to leave Sonar and I have been dependent on it and this forum to move me along. I don’t think I have been moving much this year. I listened very carefully to people like Craig, Bitflipper, and Chuckebaby for incredible insights. I’m not really hearing too much from them, lately.

Viamichael
 I listened very carefully to people like Craig, Bitflipper, and Chuckebaby for incredible insights. I’m not really hearing too much from them, lately.

I'm too busy using CbB (as well as Studio One) to finish my "Joie De Vivre" music project . At the moment I've sort of settled into a groove of using what I know, rather than experimenting with new techniques.
 
Also, I've been really hard at work on the Musician's Guide to Home Recording series for Hal Leonard. And Summer is a major travel schedule for me - did 14 personal appearances in June alone.
 
As to insights, I collected them in the most recent tips book, and don't really have anything much to add to it right now. However I suspect that as we type, Noel & Co. are cooking up new stuff .
 
I love that CbB "just plain works," so I'm taking advantage of that.