^^

3) Assuming there is a back door Is just an assumption, and if we assume there is the other assumption is that they will mail us the codes.

Regardless we need clarification on what the plan is here. Keeping us guessing is not good form.

bapu

CakeAlexSHere

Regardless we need clarification on what the plan is here. Keeping us (-1) guessing is not good form.

I'm not guessing at anything so from here on please post your comments as "we (-1)", "us (-1)" and/or "everyone|everybody (-1)" or any variation thereof.
 
I don't wish to be included in your assumptions or speculative hyperbolic assertions.
 

Absolutely right that's a fair comment and one of my pet hates, people walking around like trade union representatives. We shall stop this immediately!!

aemmett
I simply cannot believe it. I have literally just found this news. I am so very gutted right now that the end has come.
Sonar is the first and only ever DAW that I've owned, been along for the ride since X2 was born, I've loved it ever since it was installed.
 
I am surprised that the store has is closed so early, leaving no opportunity to get hold of things I didn't get around to buying. A little disappointed about that.
 
I am hoping that it will be resurrected in some shape or form in the near future. I've seen the posts about selling it on.
Failing that, is it possible to make the source code/build available to the current member community ?
I bet there are lots of users out there that are software engineers (including me) that could potentially provide support by way of fixes for problems. Something to think about perhaps ??
Please don't leave us all stranded
 
All the best to all the Cake developers over the years.
Andy
 

A lot of us are disappointed sonar will no longer be developed. It was a great DAW for my needs.
I would like to agree about users (that are software engineers) could provide positive results to bug fixes, enhancements but im afraid that's probably not possible.
 
As noel mentioned earlier, this code is 8 feet thick and probably takes years of knowing your way around to fix one thing. that's the trouble really. you make one change and the domino effect takes place.
IE: 1 fix = 2 more bugs that surface.

is all this transition stuff normally happening in the background before closure/new ownership is announced? 

THIS MAKES NO SENSE!!! 30 YEARS developing a great product and then just  puff!? what is Gibson doing??
They just bough cakewalk to milk it and let it die? great strategy...  good thing I didn't buy the perpetual upgrade subscription too but I did spend tons upgrading to platinum... I hate Gibson now and their overpriced & heavy guitars...
I should have done like the rest and buy pro-tools or I HAVE to NOW!! this suckkkkksss!!
 
**Sorry for the internal developers and employees, you probably feel worse.. capitalism can be cruel.

Greetings all, I hope I'm not going off topic by asking a few questions about my cakewalk account...
1. Can we still change or update our password? I'm kind of nervous to even try, considering the current situation with Sonar.
2. I have not received any email notification regarding the demise of Sonar and found out only by coming to this forum to peruse for a fix for an aud. Ini issue I thought I was having. In any case, I am a very long time user of Sonar and I'm concerned that if I have some computer related issues that I will lose my access to SPlat, even though I have the software itself backed up on another drive. Will we be issued a perpetual reg key so that we can at the very least access this most recent version of SPlat? The notion of returning to PT for producing and mixing is not something I look forward to but here we are.
3. I always received email notification when a new version of SPLAT was released, but now it's just crickets, am I missing out onany official communication from Cakewalk?
Lastly,
4. I know it's a real punt but has any talk come up regarding Cakewalk being acquired by any other organisation that might take on the distribution and functionality development of SPlat? In a perfect world, a company like Harrison Mixbus merging/integrating Cakewalk with their own software would be a great outcome if Gibson isn't holding copyright or intellectual property hostage, and making any transition all but impossible.
Just for the record, I work the absolute sh*te outta SPlat and as of this month, it's been an entire year with not a single crash or freeze [that I didn't cause my own self!] and as happy as I am to share that experience with any bothering to read my length post, it's equally sad to see such a fine tuned platform mothballed over just money. To go out on such stable footing is as proud an accomplishment as it is really disheartening an example of how the modern business model victimises its own in the name of profits for the very very few. Regards, Michael ✌️

Gmichaelhall
Greetings all, I hope I'm not going off topic by asking a few questions about my cakewalk account...
1. Can we still change or update our password? I'm kind of nervous to even try, considering the current situation with Sonar.
2. I have not received any email notification regarding the demise of Sonar and found out only by coming to this forum to peruse for a fix for an aud. Ini issue I thought I was having. In any case, I am a very long time user of Sonar and I'm concerned that if I have some computer related issues that I will lose my access to SPlat, even though I have the software itself backed up on another drive. Will we be issued a perpetual reg key so that we can at the very least access this most recent version of SPlat? The notion of returning to PT for producing and mixing is not something I look forward to but here we are.
3. I always received email notification when a new version of SPLAT was released, but now it's just crickets, am I missing out onany official communication from Cakewalk?
Lastly,
4. I know it's a real punt but has any talk come up regarding Cakewalk being acquired by any other organisation that might take on the distribution and functionality development of SPlat? In a perfect world, a company like Harrison Mixbus merging/integrating Cakewalk with their own software would be a great outcome if Gibson isn't holding copyright or intellectual property hostage, and making any transition all but impossible.
Just for the record, I work the absolute sh*te outta SPlat and as of this month, it's been an entire year with not a single crash or freeze [that I didn't cause my own self!] and as happy as I am to share that experience with any bothering to read my length post, it's equally sad to see such a fine tuned platform mothballed over just money. To go out on such stable footing is as proud an accomplishment as it is really disheartening an example of how the modern business model victimises its own in the name of profits for the very very few. Regards, Michael ✌️

1. Yes. You can still use your online account as before. If you’re on Platinum you are reliant on the authorisation servers running to re-authorise should you install Sonar on another computer.

2. If you have problems there is still the forum for help. You might just have to yell to get someone to notice you. Lots of folks caught in never ending loops discussing what’s happened.

3. No emails from Cakewalk. I would read the last 5 pages of this thread to catch up.

4. Lots of speculation as to what may or may not happen. None of it supported by any facts. And comments made by Noel recently seem couched in such ways as to still leave matters very unclear.

I’ve tried not to put any opinion in here. But again. Read the last 5 pages. I’m about to do it again.

andylama
I do have a practical question though:  As I got this bad news, I was getting ready to reformat my PC with Win10 and reinstall everything fresh.  At this point, will it all still work as if everything was hunky-dory?  (online servers still serving, etc.)  If so, can I assume it will remain so for at least several more weeks?  I really wanted to start with a 'fresh build' as the Cakewalk sun sets.  Furthermore, even after the servers presumably go down, if I have downloaded all the install packages, will I still be able to assemble a fresh build, say, next year or whenever?

I had bought a new laptop and when I went to load Splat that is when I found out it was being scuttled. So I setup the laptop, updated everything and Splat and all the other plugins, etc. loaded just fine and had no issues with it.

msmcleod


I'm sure any decent developer could get to grips with the code in 3 to 6 months (based on my own experience with having to learn legacy code when joining new companies).

I don't think we are taking about "just" legacy code here. I believe we are talking about Legacy code + new code mixed in to one giant soup. And that's the real difficulty.
 
But to be perfectly honest, I don't anything for sure. so maybe your right.
I actually hope your right and its not that hard. I would love to see this product continue to be developed.

Thank you for your prompt reply, I really appreciate your time and effort to clear some things up.
I feel strongly that we deserve some assurance that we will be issued a perpetual reg key so that we can at very least have access to the software we own access to outright. As for the circumstantial reneging of our lifetime updates, any grumbles about that matter would easily be appeased by unlocking every cakewalk plugin and instrument for those of us who bought into the lifetime update. It's not a big drama for me but it does seem like 1 strategy to value the contribution of long time committed users. Have a great day man and look forward to following this thread with great interest ✌️

Cakewalk goes down. So sad.
I have used Cakewalk since 1988/89. The DOS Version 1.0 came with a mpu401 ISA card and i was proud to use this in my Atari PC3 8086 with my Yamaha PSR. So sad