If no other companies purchase Cakewalk

rickpaul
[You can either export an OMF file, make stems (be it at the individual track level or submix level), or bring in the raw WAV audio files (not sure if 64-bit float files are compatible or not as that isn't as commonly supported in other DAWs as the rest of the formats SONAR uses internally).

rickpaul
LOL!  I don't do web forums for the most part, but happened to be looking through some of these today that were oriented toward Digital Performer and Samplitude.  I still use SONAR Platinum at the moment, but am trying DP this weekend to see if I want to take advantage of the significantly lowered crossgrade price through 12/21, and I had already sprung for the Samplitude X3 Pro Suite "crazy deal" a while back since I figured, whether I end up using Samplitude or not in the long-term, SpectraLayers Pro could justify the cost of the bundle (at least if I end up using it -- I already had Sound Forge Pro 11, or that would have done it, too).  I am pretty impressed with Samplitude thus far, though.  (I'd actually used a low-end version of it back before I got Pro Audio 9, which was my initial entry into the Cakewalk line.)  It might well be that I'll be around here a bit more than usual over the next few months as I try out different DAWs and look to compare experiences.

rickpaul

the_user_formally_known_as_glennbo
While I still believe that web forums are clunky square newsgroup pegs that have been pounded into round and inefficient HTML holes, NNTP requires far too many functioning brane cells for the masses, so I've been forced to visit several in order to carry on any exchange of thoughts and ideas.   ;)

 
While I don't know about the "too many brain cells" part -- other than needing a newsreader, NNTP stuff was pretty darn simple -- I'm with you on the web forums and square pegs and round holes.  They main reasons I ditched newsgroups were because my ISP stopped carrying them, and the cakewalk.audio group got to be about just about everything but SONAR/Cakewalk. :)

Even before I got back into the day job world (5+ years ago), web forums took way more time to get through any given amount of material compared to newsgroups (with a decent newsreader).  And these days my time is way more limited.

 
I jumped ship to REAPER way back in August of 2011, and still absolutely love it, but have looked in on the Cake forums from time to time since then. When I saw the news that Gibson was stopping all Cake operations, I decided to pop in and chat with some of the fellow Cakewalk alumni who I've known for more than 20 years now.

 
I've come here from time to time when researching a specific problem, but most of the time it is just to search for information, occasionally to ask a question, and, if I happen to see something I can answer while I'm here, then I'll post.  Did that a couple of times today. :)
 
I'm still very happy with SONAR, and Gibson's tenure really did make some positive differences, at least up until they pulled the plug. :(  Other that the Staff View's still being the same limited thing it has been all along (my long-term complaint, which rears its head every time I do something like add a string quartet to a pop track), SONAR's been good to me.  But I've been through the company going away thing before with Passport Designs and MasterTracks Pro and Encore, so, though I'm still hoping for some positive resolution to give SONAR a future (my early thoughts are in a blog at http://rickpaulmusic.com/...e-demise-of-cakewalk/, and those are still  more or less where I stand aside from having done a lot more "paper" research and started some hands-on evaluations), I want to be a bit more proactive in looking into backup plans this time around.  I'll likely try Reaper at some point.  I didn't like it the one time I did some time back, but I imagine it's made some progress over the years, just like most of the other alternatives have. :)