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It's already sort of half gone. All those who switched DAW's are now on those forums.. Mind you I see a bunch are using the Software forum and it's sort of funny how they are getting better answers here than they did on the actual official help forums. Certainly the Cubase forum is terrible. I haven't bothered to ask question there in years. You'll get one reply after you wait a few days. You get better service using Gear slutz DAW sub forums. 
Sounds like the Studio one forum is now populated by mostly Ex Sonar people asking questions. 
 
The other thing already here is there are now no more newbies asking questions. 
Another thing that took up a lot of forum space was Sonar updates as people posted a lot about that.
Now we are down to a few hangers on. 
One thing you do see is a lot of lurkers have come o the forefront, long time members that don't normally post are now active which is a good thing. 
 
And there is at least 2 new forum that started up, I think Bapu's is the active one, The other was someone called panup. 

Cactus Music
It's already sort of half gone. All those who switched DAW's are now on those forums.. Mind you I see a bunch are using the Software forum and it's sort of funny how they are getting better answers here than they did on the actual official help forums. Certainly the Cubase forum is terrible.

I reckon this forum is/has been about the best software peer-to-peer support I’ve come across in the 27 years I’ve been using the internet*. It’s a bit ironic that some of the most popular DAWs have at best poor support forums compared to Cakewalk, and I include Logic in that. Apple’s forums in particular don’t really encourage the kind of to-and-fro of conversation and ideas exchange that we get here and is so useful.

*maybe equal first with the demon.service newsgroup for the first few years after Demon Internet first started in ‘91/2.

Cactus Music
The other thing already here is there are now no more newbies asking questions. 

It worried me a little that there were never that many newbies asking questions though. I guess if there had have been more, Cakewalk would have been in better financial shape. 

michael diemer
(unless you take into account relativity, then you have to specify position and velocity).
 

 
Heh - that made my day....

I actually quite enjoyed looking around the Cubase forum and asking a question or two. The great thing is there isn’t all the drivel to wade through. The signal to noise ratio is much lower. The mods seem helpful and their marketing manager, Matthias is very active.

I have quite a few posts on this forum and have enjoyed helping others solve their problems.
I have learned so much from this forum as well as met great people here.
But this forum (not speaking for others) is holding me back from completing projects, doing more work where I'm supposed to be doing more work....  In the Workstation.
 
I spend a lot of free time here but that free time could be spent finishing projects that need completing.
Sure everyone needs a break from the DAW but I find myself coming here too often and I find myself being too concerned with other peoples opinions. Probably one of my least favorable quality's. That's my bad and that's my fault.
 
So I have decided to spend more time recently where I should. In my work.
I have a new DAW to learn. Even though im using Sonar still, im trying my best to slowly wean myself into to Studio one 3. There are a lot of little things to learn like shortcuts, features, exc.
That's why I have decided to stay using Sonar while cracking the surface of Studio one at the same time.
 
Sonar stopping development has been a blessing in disguise for me.
Though I miss Sonars new updates and I do feel awful for staff who lost their jobs.
I have this refreshed feeling of almost being forced to step outside my comfort zone to accomplish new things and explore new horizons. I actually sound like that Martin Landslide guy. How horrific. But its true.
 
 

OK lets form a self help group Sonar Forum addiction Anonymous
 
Maybe Azslow3 could write a little app that every time we try to come here a warning pops up 
" DO YOUR REALLY NEED THAT FIX"  and we go back to work. 
I agree it's a dangerous distraction  but the payoff for me is almost everyday I read something that educates me about using Sonar and general stuff like the latest hardware and Windows issues. 
 
I can sort of get the same fix on Gear slutz but it is soo bogged down with useless and wrong information and Mac this , Pro Tools that. No, this forum is focused on Sonar and using a PC to make music.  
I would switch over to Bapu's forum right now but I'm not at all interested in taking about other DAW's right now. We all did that for a week or so and that's that. When this forum dies it looks like most of us will probably end up over there. Actually I will always think of Bapu as living in the basement? why is that? :) 
I can see this forum will just slowly fade away. One by one with not much to talk about we will wander off leaving a few folks who logged on for the first time in a year pondering what happened and " where did everybody go?" 
 
 I'm not predicting it will just shut down suddenly or a few months or even a year. Neil has said as so much. There was a hint of the month of June in all that none info. 

The Lifetime Platinum Member

bobguitkillerleft
I tried to join beyond cakewalk,at 3.11pm here,only to get- Sorry, something went wrong verifying your account against a spammer database. Most likely the database couldn't be accessed. Please try again later.So i'll Please try again later.

 
Sorry to hear that. We were getting deluged with spammers and so we incorporated an spammer plugin (yes, forum software has plugins too).
 
If you send a PM (or to "bapu") I will set you up if you are still interested.

Thankyou,
I'll try again later today after sleep,I've been fooling for far too long with WinDirStat,and how if every colour for even the most innocuous files are checked(as i mentioned a tiny while ago),it actually shows my 500GB Seagate ST500LMO 21 - 1KJ152 SCSI Disk Device *actually has 1.5 TB of data!*,and i can bring up totally inaccessible stuff usually(by my usual mousy explorer ways) like old .wav files,by just right clicking 'show in explorer' within WinDirStat that VLC plays instantly,so man I was super surprised the entire 1.5 TB on a 465GB usable/500GB (an actual 500,105,249,280 bytes) main disk still showed(please stay)!
 
Because,life of LATE,has been weird as an understatement,least problematic is updates(or fans,high temps,when the lappy is not really supposedly doing anything?) of course other digi-luddite oddness as per usual,but THE way way worse "psychosocial" mega upsets,actually offset with coinciding nowhere near as bothersome-car radiator 'microfracturing',patching with metal strips/epoxy 2 part resin - $400 for a rad. for a 96 reliable,yet worrying car that would only sell(whole vehicle)for $500 max(after just forking(?) for registration)lol,and Saturday afternoon to Sunday 6.50am still easily playing,and finding these files! So one day/month/? the lost projects on the RAW Unallocated external HDD's might with luck (a lot of?),may be revived?,and even though i'm never learning a new daw(yet,.....if at all!),and travelling to an eventual beyond forum,as well as THIS internet forum continuing(the 1/4/or1/2 inch reel to reel is a certainty definitely after my june 93 cassette epiphany) there is new hope?,after much Sunday sleep.
Thanks The Lifetime Platinum Member,and of course ALL here.
Slightly sleep deprived,but full tilt sincerity is meant
bob

mrpippy2
I was just looking at the techniques forum, and though it says there are something like 7k posts, I can only access 3 pages. On my desktop, the Sonar forum was only showing 7 pages, but now on my phone I have more. Weird. Hope I can get to some of those back posts in the techniques forum. I'm trying to save a bunch of pages as local HTML files so I'll have access to them when the forum goes down.

 
They're all there, just change the time filter right at the bottom of the page to 'from the beginning'. It's set on '30 days' by default.

Just trying to keep the Sonar forum clear for Sonar threads.
 
The CH is supposed to be used for general discussion (as well as the banter we all enjoy)

sharke

Cactus Music
The other thing already here is there are now no more newbies asking questions. 

It worried me a little that there were never that many newbies asking questions though. I guess if there had have been more, Cakewalk would have been in better financial shape. 

 
THIS! Sharke is right
 
Plus, It's like wading through a mud pond of narcissism around here.  I'm glad it's going down! :D:D

chuckebaby
 
 I actually sound like that Martin Landslide guy. How horrific. But its true.
 
 

That's Matron chucky . . . Matron . . .  Matron Landslide