Any SonarX4 news/rumors?

Hi folks. Happy Holidays to all! 
So, I'm finally ready to upgrade my SonarX1 after finally getting the Vista desktop PC replaced with a W8 box. Normally, there is an annual update to Sonar about this time of year. I haven't seen or heard much about the next update to SonarX3, but it's probably in the near future. Rather than update to X3 now and have to go through another purchase and update grief process shortly thereafter, I'm wondering how far out into the future I might have to wait for the next version?
I realize they are busy with the store updates, SSO process, etc. In fact, Cakewalk pretty much lost the history of my purchases and associated SNs and Reg#'s (their bad!), but I'm working through it with them. It does illustrate my concerns with upgrading just a bit too early, and then having to climbing 2 learning curves rather than one. I'm patient enough to wait quite a while if necessary, but I don't think the next update is out a whole year from now. Any thoughts or comments? 

hopefully it means they are taking their time to do it right

Thanks for the info Craig. I just hope you don't get in trouble for letting that bit of confidential information out of the bag. 😊

Well, its 2015 UK side, so Ian's info was spot on...must have very close contacts..

Apparently no news. Seems like it would be a good idea to build a little buzz and then showcase the new 'store' with an amazing update deal, but I don't do marketing. I do agree that they should take the time to do it 'right' and avoid the whole X1 update thing which was pretty tedious through version 1d. I'm not expecting a complete overhaul or anything, just the usual yearly update. Maybe this spring?

Anderton
 there's more concern about getting it right than hitting an arbitrary deadline.

Amen. Wish other companies thought that way instead of "release it now and we'll issue patches later."

I hope they are working on an even more stable product and not a showcase of new plug-ins.

DragonBlood 
Honestly, I'd rather just give up on trying to receive any updates from you, outside of an official newsletter.

By the sword of Aragorn and the blood of the dragon of Gandor, I am sworn to secrecy. Edward Snowden says he doesn't know either.
 
But as to this observation:
 

There's no information in the post but you make it seem like you've got updates and new info!

 
I'm studying to become a presidential press secretary, so this is a required skill and I need to practice. 
 

 
Question :  if the Nomad Factory Blue Tubes plugins are locked to X3 and X4 offers something else, will the BT plugins still be useable in X4 ?
 
From NF support, quoted in this thread :
 
The previous version of Blue Tubes you own was locked to Sonar X3, so when you updated it with our new v5 plugins, it now requires a regular Blue Tubes license.  So we recommend removing the new Blue Tubes plugins and reinstall Sonar X3 to get previous versions of BlueTubes working again.
 
Or are the plugins locked to 'Sonar' ?
 
I'm just wondering about the usefulness of learning the BT plugins if they may disappear in the near future.
 

 
Good news.  Thanks.  And Happy New Year !
 

Sonar X4 will have a 128 bit floating point audio engine.

Anderton

MandolinPicker

Anderton
 there's more concern about getting it right than hitting an arbitrary deadline.

Amen. Wish other companies thought that way instead of "release it now and we'll issue patches later."

It's software...I would pretty much bet that there will be patches!

I agree, that is the nature of the beast. But there is a big difference between 'get enough done to ship by date" and developing a strong program with adequate testing prior to release.
 
I don't know if Cakewalk does this, but some companies will put out a limited release to various 'super users' as a test version, to expand the testing of the software besides what is done in house. This allows 'real' users to try things that those doing the testing in house would never do. This is another good way of getting rid of additional bugs before you have a full release, and thus your product is that much stronger.
 
In the end, its all a matter mind set

SONAR X4 will change EVERYTHING*.
(or was that X1, I cannae be arsed to look it up)
 
 
 
*Except your undershreddies.

I think this thread should be merged into the fairly recent megathread. The FSF needs some challengers.. Will leave it for 24 hours maybe so it gets bigger. ...

http://forum.cakewalk.com...aspx?m=3107314&p=1

Hmmm I think we need a huge discussion about this before we merge ;)