Magix is aquiring Gibson...

subtlearts

monleo2014
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So my guess is that Sonar …… combines/ merges with another big DAW ! I even have an idea which DAW it is: …. Magix Samplitude. 
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Hmm. This strikes me as remarkably unlikely. How would one go about 'merging' Sonar with Samplitude? They have completely different codebases. I think that would quite likely be a more difficult proposition, and certainly make less sense, than starting a whole new one from scratch. 
 
Samplitude is a very fine product, from everything I've heard and read. And I don't think Magix is exactly on the ropes or anything - they just bought most of the Sony Creative Software fleet, including Sound Forge, Acid and the Vegas family. But I don't have the impression Gibson is looking to unload Sonar just yet, and it wouldn't make much sense for Magix to buy Cakewalk even if they were, so unless Gibson has secretly acquired Magix and isn't announcing it yet, I think this is a red herring. 
 
That offer on Samplitude Suite would be tempting though! Not that I need to learn yet another DAW or anything. 

The track record of maintenance of Samp is not to be envied. I bought ProX2 a year ago, and have not been able to use it with VST3 still - first it always crashed exiting if using VST3 in a project, then an update but a month last october Waves updated to 9.6 and VST3 scan crashes, and it still does after the april-2016 update of ProX2.
 
A couple of years ago I trialed ProX, and Waves Element made it crash every time. It took 16 months before that was fixed. And Magix was still in denial when I reported at the beginning of that period - but Waves confirmed it was a problem and eventually got Magix to fix it.
 
What Samp may give the world of daws would be some things in gui which are well thought out, some zooming options in fast buttons, some saved select ranges in a list which is useful, otherwise many strange choices by Magix - usually editing is based on selecting objects you are working on, but there are a number of toolbar buttons with various modes that tells what is affected by an edit instead. Very unintuitive in my world. So I went Cubase last fall not waiting for those folks to get around and fix it.
 
But Samp was probably the best importer of Reaper projects, in EDL format. Put everything in it's place, even midi clips. So I used it to convert Reaper projects to Cubase by exporting in OMF. Also some good sample rate converting algos you have to choose from.

getting close, not long to go now. where is that count down timer dude
 
whatever it is i hope it lives up to everyone's expectations

The Grim
getting close, not long to go now. where is that count down timer dude
 
whatever it is i hope it lives up to everyone's expectations

Here you go
 

 
 
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Two big things I can think of:
 

• Sonar on Mac
• Support for recording in FLAC or ALAC to save disk space

It'll probably be neither of those.

I just wanted reply #1000.
 
We will all know in a couple days

mettelus
I just wanted reply #1000.
 
We will all know in a couple days

well you didn't get it, you got 1001

Anderton

AllanH
Since we're all guessing: I think Cakewalk will consolidate Sonar Artist, Pro, and Platinum into one product.

 
SONAR Arprotinum?
 

We've already been told that the majority of the customers are Artist.

 
This rumor started because during a particular period of time, the majority of new users chose Artist. I don't believe the majority of all customers are on Artist, but someone from Cakewalk would be in a better position to know.

 
It would be really interesting to know the numbers or at least the percentages between versions. I'm platinum, my brother is professional. he upgraded from artist to pro because of melodyne and pro channel. My guess would be in the order of pl 10% pro 20% and artist 70%. As I say it would be interesting to know.

Considering who Cakewalk were hiring last year, it's most likely something to do with HW, e.g. a controller for Sonar. And/or Mac support. That's my expectations at least.
If it's the HW, would be quite irritating cause it'll probably come with lifetime updates, which I jsut bought as a "loyal customer". So then if I decide to buy the HW, I'll be like, "dang, could've saved..." Unless they provide HW discounts of 100euro for lifetime owners.

SilkTone
Hoenerbr already mentioned online collaboration on page 2. Maybe it is some form of tightly integrated realtime collaboration. Imagine being able to invite other SONAR users to your session from within SONAR, and then the project gets synced between the two (SONAR uploads the full project, including all audio etc). The two will then play back in sync etc, and you can record on either/both.
 
Lots of technical challenges with that, including latency, both needing the same plugins, similar IO setups etc.
 
Maybe a more limited version, where one SONAR is the master, and you can add new audio and/or MIDI tracks on the slave that can be recorded to. The master would need to at least send pre-rendered versions of tracks to the slave to make sure the user on the slave can hear the full project (they need to be individual tracks to make sure mute/solo works correctly on both sides).
 
Kinda like Steinberg's VST Connect Pro, but built into SONAR.
 
Or something.
 

Ableton Link

Please, anything but Mac support... 

Soundwise
Big things I can think of:

• Staff view replaced by advanced notation editor, Cakewalk's own or 3rd party

I would love that, along with something akin to the expression maps in Cubase.

REZA

nonametoday

REZA
I think:
2. Introduce a brand new control surface or one of the famous controller in the market + a patch update for compatibility.

I still think it's going to be with Nektar.
Someone who wrote to them recently about a problem received a reply to the effect that they couldn't fix that problem at the moment as they're too busy with new software.
 
Got to be integration with sonar. :)
 

Maybe but whatever it is I hope they don't choose a toy for such a good DAW like sonar. As i said if they can add the protools protocol, our hands will be open to choose a HW based on our budget.

Toy? Have you actually ever used a Nektar Panorama, the level of integration with the daw and vst's is great.

So i guess we'll get the Big Announcement here in Aus first

I hope it's not something along the lines of IK Multimedia's marketing, i.e. based on a belief that all customers want to make music only their iPhones and tablets.