Email list for Cakewalk to contact all users

Cakewalk has the email address in your account. They could use that to send out a notification if they want and were allowed to do it.

Regarding those people who use Sonar but never visit the forum - sorry to sound unsympathetic but frankly if a huge program like a DAW is a major part of your life (whether professionally or recreationally) then the onus is on you to keep tabs on what's going on with that program either by visiting the company's official website or browsing the official forum. 
 
Sonar has had so many bugs and issues over the years that I cannot wrap my head around the idea that some people use the program without ever checking in here once in a while. 
 
Email lists are problematic and are never any guarantee of reaching all users. People change email addresses and don't bother updating lists they're on. Or they use some BS email address that they never check to sign up for things. 
 
Seems to me that anyone with half a brain who wants to know what's going on with Cakewalk is perfectly capable of finding this forum. 

sharke
Regarding those people who use Sonar but never visit the forum - sorry to sound unsympathetic but frankly if a huge program like a DAW is a major part of your life (whether professionally or recreationally) then the onus is on you to keep tabs on what's going on with that program either by visiting the company's official website or browsing the official forum. 
 
Sonar has had so many bugs and issues over the years that I cannot wrap my head around the idea that some people use the program without ever checking in here once in a while. 
 
Email lists are problematic and are never any guarantee of reaching all users. People change email addresses and don't bother updating lists they're on. Or they use some BS email address that they never check to sign up for things. 
 
Seems to me that anyone with half a brain who wants to know what's going on with Cakewalk is perfectly capable of finding this forum. 

I think you may have missed the point: the forum may not still be here.

AlanPerkins

sharke
Regarding those people who use Sonar but never visit the forum - sorry to sound unsympathetic but frankly if a huge program like a DAW is a major part of your life (whether professionally or recreationally) then the onus is on you to keep tabs on what's going on with that program either by visiting the company's official website or browsing the official forum. 
 
Sonar has had so many bugs and issues over the years that I cannot wrap my head around the idea that some people use the program without ever checking in here once in a while. 
 
Email lists are problematic and are never any guarantee of reaching all users. People change email addresses and don't bother updating lists they're on. Or they use some BS email address that they never check to sign up for things. 
 
Seems to me that anyone with half a brain who wants to know what's going on with Cakewalk is perfectly capable of finding this forum. 

I think you may have missed the point: the forum may not still be here.

So if the Cakewalk servers shut down and all operations cease, how are they going to email everyone in their database? 
 
Either they'll make an announcement on here before the forum shuts down, or it will just go off randomly. If they make an announcement, that announcement will no doubt propagate to many other places online. Anyone who has no idea what had happened and fires up the forum to find it isn't here will then invariably Google "Cakewalk website down" or similar, and find the information pretty quickly. 
 
If it just goes off randomly without any prior warning on the forum, then that means something happened which leaves it very unlikely that they will be able to email everyone. 

This has been my concern since the beginning.
Im also curious why this thread was moved to the coffee house and not the Cakewalk store which this seems to be a legit question for the transition team.
 

paulo
 
Is it wrong that I laughed at the very idea that CW could finally manage to send an email to all of their customers at the same time ?
 

No it is not, they are and have always been hopeless in that regard, as the plethora of posts over the years attest to.

chuckebaby
This has been my concern since the beginning.
Im also curious why this thread was moved to the coffee house and not the Cakewalk store which this seems to be a legit question for the transition team.
 

I was very surprised myself that my post was moved to the coffeehouse forum.  This was a question/comment for the folks at Cakewalk to keep all it's users informed.  It wasn't meant to be a "fun" discussion to be tossed around in the non-Cakewalk section of this forum. 

To the moderator who moved this post, your actions only increase my feelings of being kicked to the curb by an uncaring company.

This is exactly what happened to me. I started using Cakewalk in the days when it was essentially a midi sequencer with the ability to run a couple of audio tracks in parallel. At some point I upgraded to Cakewalk Professional 7 and used that for several years. My projects are relatively simple, and my workload tends to be seasonal, in that I use the DAW for Christmas productions (children singing in church). At the start of this year my Windows XP Desktop (still managing to run Professional 7, albeit with a few issues) gave up the ghost, and I was forced into buying a shiny new Windows 10 PC. It was finally time to bite the bullet and upgrade to Sonar. I tested out a trial version earlier this year, and was pleased that it was able to open all my old bundle files so that I could rescue the midi and audio content. I played around with this program for two or three weeks, to get used to the interface, and then on October 31st I purchased Sonar Artist, not realising what was just around the corner. Over the next four or five weeks I  successfully put my Christmas project together. It was only about a week ago, when I had a problem using Sonar on my laptop, that I decided to turn to this forum to see if I could obtain any advice. I saw the titles of the recent threads and realised something bad had happened. Sooner or later I would probably have realised that the promised monthly updates were not happening but, apart from that, I would have been completely unaware of events.