Special last version

Probably not going to happen since those are all licensing agreements mase with third parties. Not Nomad's fault. Maybe it would be a nice gesture on their part to offer reduced license on non-sonar version, but they tens to have good sales on those products anyway.

Most actual cakewalk plugins are not locked to sonar. Dimension pro, rapture, z3ta and many others work outside of cakewalk.

Great. We use Studio One as primary DAW BUT just purchased a complete interface/controller/monitor system for our songwriting room,based on SONAR. Have put in many hours lately getting into the SONAR groove,all for nought. Ouch!!

I love sonar........I agree....If its forever this last version, then ok.......but I want lifetime access to what ive spent my time and money on. 

M@
They should allow CW to make one last bug-free version 😅

Yes, it will be ready for release . . . well never

Per Noel's post, CW has not only ceased development, but "reduced overall operations this past Friday". There was a rumor on the other thread that the entire Boston office has been closed. In other words, there may not be anyone to put out this mythical "final" release. If Gibson is frantically cutting costs in order to remain viable and/or appease creditors, then one last release of Sonar may be the last thing on their minds.

I expect the chances of there being a 'last' version are about zero. Gibson won't make money and if they cared about any response/backlash it would have been indicated in the official announcement.  They'll just retain the IP/copy-write/patents (if any) and sue people that make something similar but won't do anything with the actual content itself. Those Cakewalk music babies have been drop-kicked into the ocean because they don't please the Gibson shareholders.
 
However, I'd think the chances of the chaps in the bakery doing something helpful outside of the constraints of their Gibson overlords are pretty good, even if its just a conversion tool for projects. Perhaps as an import option when they get wherever they end up :)
 
I obviously have no clue what's really going on and like everyone else am just speculating.

tenfoot

Roo Stercogburn
I expect the chances of there being a 'last' version are about zero. 

 
Oh there'll be a last edition alright, but it will be on Piratebay, not the Cake store. 
 
A very sad turn of events.

Yeh :(

soens
Are there shareholders? I read Gibson is privately owned.

According the their Wikipedia page, they are "private"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson

Philips has been floating around the 'family' for a while now.

Btw, is the actual last Sonar version any good? I didn't update for some time, and haven't been here, so i don't know. Is it good Last Version, or bad Last Version? 2017.10 right?

Thank you! What is the problem with it?

I completely agree with Mike. An unlocked version would be the best thing they could do for us.
 
However, Gibson is going to be hoarding every asset they own in order to squeeze out every last bit of value that remains, which includes CW's intellectual property. As long as there's any possibility of another company (or companies) buying the source code or parts of it, or trademarks, they're not going to release any of it into the public domain.
 
Of course, that won't stop some enterprising hacker from doing it anyway...
 
 

mudgel
Interestingly Ron Kuper stuck his head in and offered to be involved in an open source effort to get Sonar or at least the code going. But again what are the chances.

really? where's this at? thx

can anyone suggest a more stable version of sonar....like can I still uninstall and reinstall a previous version?.......I'm kinda not game to uninstall it just incase