Sonar X-Citing

Coming from a business/enterprise point of view... a new product for sure is being cooked up. Probably has been in the works since X1 was released. That's how they compete in the major line of DAW's. Cakewalk did the same between Sonar 8.5 and X1.  Even more so with other products such as their Interface line up. The UA line is super cheap compared to when it was released and since the Quad and Octa capture from ROLAND, even cheaper still. Just how the world works. Put something on clearance because "The Next Best Thing" is about to be revealed. I imagine it will be sometime yet, maybe 6 months to a year. Cakewalk will probably showcase their next product at a convention in Europe or the US a few months prior to release. 

I don't remember Cakeqalk show casing a SONAR release beforehand. There's usually a press release that it's release is imminent then a firm date given about 3 weeks out.

Speculating that they've double their production cycle to 2 years would see us due for a new X2?  release anywhere from September/October (which used to be the pre X1 release time) to December which was the time of year X1 was released.

Personally I think we're due for a new version about September 2012.
Seems funny to see Cakeqalk move to longer dev' cycle as Adobe just announced an annual  development cycle for its CS product line.

I wasn't talking about Adobe's Audition software. I was talking about the development cycles of their whole CS product range.
As for Audition it makes no pretense at being anything like SONAR. However having used it for years for it's sophisticated audio editing tools for that purpose even Audition 2 is light years ahead of SONAR's audio editing features.
Audition 3 fell behind a little and now with Audition CS 6 released Audition is nearly back to where it was after being rewritten from the ground up.

I would never, and have never considered Audition as a DAW but certainly up to Audition 2 it was one of the best audio editors available. I still have it on my system and use it for pure audio editing along with Sound Forge10 depending on the editing requirements. I also have the full CS5.5 Master Suite but wouldn't consider using Audition CS5.5 for any serious audio work when I still have Audition 2 available. Because of the drastic changes I didn't ever go for Audition 3.
As for CS6 I won't be upgrading as Adobe has instituted an unfair upgrade pricing policy that effects Australian purchasers specifically.

As a pure audio editor SONAR is fair at best. As a DAW it is among the best.

Audition any version and SONAR any version are 2 entirely different classes of programs.

Another thing, when the subject of upgrading to a 64 bit program comes up, they just come up with excuses on why they should remain a 32 bit program.

It is about Cakewalk. I'm demonstrating what a fine, advanced program it is in comparison to what else is out there.

Who knows what cakewalk has up it's sleave.  As for the Audition vs Sonar comparisons , it truly is apples and oranges.  There was a very brief moment when Audition branched into DAW-like features, but it was limited to basic midi features, poor soft synth support and basic support for loop based production.  It was a failed experiment and dropped as quickly as it was implemented.

I do have some insight as to why Audition took a step backward.  When Adobe acquired Cool Edit, it had recently dropped making their production suite for Mac OS.  When they resumed Mac support, they had to deal with the problem of Audion being a windows only product.  The initial solution was to drop Audition from the production suite and they introduced the cross-platfom, but awful Soundbooth program. They also upgraded Audition to 3.0 for windows. With the CS5.5 version of their suite, they introduced a cross-platform version of Audition that seemed more like a hybrid of Soundbooth and Audition.  The emphasis being more on integration with suite than actual product improvement.  The latest incarnation of Audition pretty much put back most of what was in Audition 3 but completely drops any DAW-like features.