I think i may stick with sonar for a while....
I just need to get my hands on S.Platinum....
I've used a number of DAWs but still find my way back to SONAR.
The workflow is just terrific, it offers the tools i need for releasing topnotch tracks. I've seen it in action.
I just hope my finances can match up quickly before S.Platinum runs out of stock on the market shelves.

This community can use Sonar now for a while, at least until something breaks (some OS or other factor like new technology comes out making plugins no longer work, etc). In the end we will all be forced to leave for another DAW (or another solution). I will be moving over to ProTools as it IS the studio standard and makes hit records every day more than any other DAW. That's enough for me.
 
HOWEVER,
There is another option that has not been talked about. It will show whether there is real support or not..... I/we can start a KickStarter campaign. Let people put their money where their mouth is. Sooner or later you will need to pony up money for a solution. One possibility is to make that Sonar. I bet if a campaign offered 100k for rights to Sonar, that would get Gibson's attention.
 
Again, I am a Senior Software Engineer (although not in C++ which I assume Sonar was written). The Campaign could either promise to open source it, or not. I don't really care either way. I would think a couple devs could keep it alive and moving forward. With that small overhead, it would even be a viable small business. I might even be willing to run it (open source or not).
 
If the campaign fails, then just call it quits and best of luck to all of us. 
 
Thoughts?
 
-Jeff

So much dedication, hard work, persistence, talent, loving and caring for its users.  Surely someone will see the value in this product line and acquire it. 

It's like living with a girlfriend, having a wonderful night together and in the morning you wake up with a letter on the kitchen table, she's gone ,she's not with you anymore forever. The monthly updates were a train running faster and faster, now I discover that it was going to crash on a wall, a sort of parabola of modern industry, where they stress us to develop more, produce more, and noone knows if it is so because they know we are selling less.
 
It's now 20 years since '97, 10-12 songs every year, plus the songs before '97 which I ported to digital from my multitrack recorder, all within Sonar (currently Sonar Professional).
 
Here in Italy the DAW competition for musical pro-hobbysts like me is Cubase, Logic and Sonar. All professional studios have ProTools (with poor midi). Boys use Reaper. But just thinking of something else is a pain.
 
Being on Windows, I guess I will go on using Sonar, but I will start to bounce everything  to audio in the end; I will also devote Sundays to open the old sonar bundle files and save them as omf. Next year, at the black Friday, I will consider a crossgrade, but not now, I cannot. I am stick to Sonar, I can't use anything else but Sonar.
 
I wish to greet the Sonar developer people, who I'm sure are reading this post, for the years we have spent together and because they enabled us to do music. I also write, perhaps for the last time, to wave my hello to all the forum contributors, I've seen Craig, Stratman, daveny, SusanG and all the others in this post, (even Brandon!), it's been a good time together, I've grown with you.

Very sad to read this announcement. For employees at Cakewalk I hope they find a good new job. And thank you all very much for this great DAW that you have developed! Cakewalk is to young to die.
 
29th of december last year I've bought Sonar Platinum with lifetime updates. I have used many years cubase LE (had an very old version, it was livred by a yamaha synthesizer in 2003. Last year I wanted a complete and better DAW, much more up to date. First bought in november 2016 by  local musicstore an older version, x1 producer and a month later I upgraded it to sonar Platinum, because they were adviced with a upgrade to platinum and it was the last chance to get it with a lifetime update... diddn't know that the lifetime was 11 months...
I'm still learning, regularly I find new functions in Platinum and now I don't know what to do. Crossgrade to another or wait till it not works anymore over a couple of years.
 
I know my english is not good, hope it's readable.
 

Hello guys
Read this report from an employee of Cakewalk .... Reveals interesting things about the "end" of Sonar:

Anderton
.... I will definitely miss sonar, big time, but that's the way it goes. ....

Craig,  I am much surprised so many people are already moving to other DAWs. When you say you will miss Sonar -  is that mean you are about to stop using Sonar now?  Do you expect Win10 update would make Sonar unusable any time soon?
 

Jarsve

Sylvan

Jarsve
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https://www.ipetitions.co...ewalk-and-sonar-out-of

I want to sign this but can whoever made this re-write it to correct the grammar and spelling issues? I am not trying to be a punk here, but in order to be taken seriously we should put forth our best effort. I feel that if someone from Microsoft that has any kind of authority to actually do something about this reads this page with the poorly written English (grammar and spelling issues,) they will immediately get the impression that this is not very serious.


Please, let's do this right. Fix the poorly written English.
 
Thank you,
-Charles

Thanks, be free to write it. English is not my first language, so I appreciate if someone better write it.

Then why did you write it? 

i give up. thank!

Craig asked for better language....okay. **** GIBSON. They should know better than to mess with Cakewalk. This will be the end of their empire.

I wish the adaptive limiter was a vst plugin...
Same for the pro channel.

I wish so many things...

It all just seems... weird. Sad and weird.

Still trying out other daws. I'll ride the SPLAT train until the wheels fall off I guess.