:(

My thoughts go out to all the employees and their families. It must be hard given the time of year. Izotope are round those parts,  do you think they would fancy adopting a few orphans and perhaps an orphaned DAW? I hope at least the former if not the latter.

I was hoping to upgrade from Sonar Pro to Sonar Platinum this Christmas with some Christmas money I am getting. I guess this means that I won't be able to do that now? 
 
 

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Read the last paragraph of Noel's post.  Everything works, just no more development on Sonar or any other product.

Until they turn the lights out on Command Center server. Anybody who owned Native Instruments plugins before they moved to their current authorization method (around 2008?) knows what will happen when we try to install on a new computer.

Sad news indeed.

Best future wishes to those who work or worked for Cakewalk and have put in so much time and effort to make Sonar what it is today. You can be proud of a wonderful product with a loyal fanbase.
 
This might not be the end. This move lets them off the hook for the monthly updates and the lifetime memberships.
These were decisions made by shirts that didn't understand the DAW business or the software business for that matter. I would be willing to wager that most here would be willing to buy Sonar re branded using the same code for a reasonable price. 
 
I had the lifetime updates. Even though I benefited from that, I will be more than willing to put up money for future copies of this software if someone else buys Cakewalk and supports it.
 
Acid Pro sat for years with no major updates under Sony yet still had a loyal following. Things looked up for them when Magix stepped in and bought them. Studio One was developed by engineers from Cubase who left.....so what I'm saying is don't give up on this just yet. Cake still has the code which valuable. The last thing you want to do is give that code away for free IMHO. Unless a disgruntled employee ruins access to it, the software can come back under someone else.
 
I have long speculated about a relationship between Microsoft and Cakewalk. Whoever is in the drivers seat, stop talking about it and find email/phone number to ask them. Talking about it won't make it happen. Somebody pick up a phone and make a few calls.Schedule a meeting or something, like NOW or even YESTERDAY. 

Weird ..

http://cdm.link/2017/11/gibson-just-killed-cakewalk-philips/
 

Gibson, the company known for legendary guitars and killing your favorite DAW in the 90s … now gets the chance to remind the pro audio crowd of the latter.
Gibson is discontinuing all development of Cakewalk products, which would include the SONAR flagship DAW. The explanation: they want to focus on consumer audio electronics, namely Philips:

Gibson Brands announced today that it is ceasing active development and production of Cakewalk branded products. The decision was made to better align with the company’s acquisition strategy that is heavily focused on growth in the global consumer electronics audio business under the Philips brand.

 

And it means that just as Dutch giant Philips moves to “health and well being,” Gibson is moving from being a guitar company into being a consumer electronics megacorp. 

Gibson, The company that brought you the 2015 models, arguably the stupidest guitars ever made, at any time in recorded history.
 
25 years of using CW. I've used them all and always went back to CW and I freakin' LOVE Sonar.
 
Best of luck to all of you at Cakewalk. You rock. Thanks for all the years of great music making.

So sad that my "lifetime" updates actually died.
 
And now, back to Cubase I guess... sigh.

And the store's still open? Is incredible.

My thoughts are with the staff. Slightly different thoughts about the Gibson Board.