Hello and Goodbye

I'm kinda curious, but is it a requirement to post when you are leaving, or moving on to another DAW? Can someone please help me out? I am a little slow..
Thanks..

"Aloha" would be a cooler title... no one thinks that bad, sorta reminiscent of "get your eye candy while it's hot, you'll never see it again!"

FWIW, I doubt many would plan 8 months in advance for a drive by, and nothing said was disrespectful.

To the original poster - should you happen to take a read through this thread at some point - 
 
1) Since you had a year's worth of Sonar under the new model, your installed Sonar will continue to be able to run at its current maintenance point for forever (or until some future OS maintenance renders it no longer operative), so you can still use Sonar as you please.
 
2) I would think that as noted by Craig in an earlier post to the thread, it is a good bet that the Cakewalk staff would be interested in some detail as to what your issues are with Sonar, and who knows, maybe there is a way to resolve those issues for you, so it may well benefit you (and others) for you to explain what those issues are.
 
3) This was the nicest goodbye thread I can recall seeing - in any case, best of it all to you :)
 
Bob Bone
 

I don't think he's a troll (I'm assuming it's a he). He's using a real email, is not hiding behind an anonymizing IP, and is giving props to the community instead of insulting it. Furthermore, the real "attention junkies" usually log in multiple times after their "goodbye" post, presumably to check in what they've stirred up. The OP logged in one hour after the initial post, and that was it. The apparent legitimacy is why I'm interested in the OP's opinion.
 
However, there are two known people here who have created various alts over the years, and pull them out from time to time when they want to fulminate about how I am an Agent of Satan, and that the community consists solely of intolerant fanbois who conspire with Cakewalk to suppress any negative comments about SONAR. Goes with the territory...the internet is open to the public, and no one is required to actually read forum content before commenting on it 

I own and use three different DAWS. Protools 10, Presonus and Cakewalk.
All are great in their own right and  have unique features. I am sure their are other  users on here with many more. If a user  wants to express his frustration that's his right but jumping up and down and saying  "he's  a troll or a big bad user of another DAW besides Sonar that wrong". Calkwalk said somewhere only a small amount of users are on the forum?
Live and let live it's about the music.

"I've often stated that I use SONAR for multitrack projects, Ableton Live for live performance, and Studio One for album assembly. No one gets on my case about it."
 
To Anderton---    You should be using Sonar for live its very stable + hot live inputs with effects.I tried it for these last few months ,very happy.
Peace

Anderton
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However, there are two known people here who have created various alts over the years, and pull them out from time to time when they want to fulminate about how I am an Agent of Satan, and that the community consists solely of intolerant fanbois who conspire with Cakewalk to suppress any negative comments about SONAR. Goes with the territory...the internet is open to the public, and no one is required to actually read forum content before commenting on it 

I don't know, I think it's your "Agent of Satan" connection that brings an air of mystique to your wise and helpful advice.  Otherwise it would just be dull and dry.  Oh and btw, I missed the last fanboy meeting with Cakewalk about the latest techniques to suppress any negative comments.  Hopefully someone can catch me up.

And I just posted today, what could be seen as a negative comment about a crashing problem I'm having with Sonar.  But that was just subterfuge to throw them off track.

Leee
Oh and btw, I missed the last fanboy meeting with Cakewalk about the latest techniques to suppress any negative comments.  Hopefully someone can catch me up.

 
You didn't miss much, just the posting of the Hounding Users With Legitimate But Long-Ignored Issues schedule. It'll be in your inbox soon.

IMO the OP was just a polite way of letting us know that the poster finds the subscription model very inconvenient.
I saw no typical signs of trolling, and Andertons post #16 made the case.
If I can afford a new rig in this life, which will require an update of the DAW as well, I must say I'm somewhat reluctant/suspicious to the subscription thing as well. Reading the forum it seems every update, in addition to bringing new features, gets something messed up as well. As if SONAR is never in an "OK, now it works" state. :o)
I understand it's just an impression given by the forum discussion, I do realise I can simply buy, install and forget about it. Then again, I'd prefer staying in 8.5, but it may simply not be possible.

What's with all these "I don't like Cakewalk/Sonar/this forum, so I'm leaving" posts lately? Why do people feel the need to tell anyone else that they are choosing to use another product? Seriously, does anyone care?
 
Not meaning to sound harsh, but don't these people have better things to do? Like getting on with learning their newly chosen DAW?
 
Sonar is not perfect, but news flash, .......... NEITHER IS ANY OTHER DAW!! Or ANY software product, for that matter. Go check out other software user forums. Full of threads about how the product doesn't work properly. 
 
Like other users here, I've got many. many years into using Sonar. Unless Cakewalk quits making Sonar, or they totally "F" it up, I don't have the time, nor do I wish to spend the time learning another DAW. Others may have their reasons for using more than one and I have dabbled with others, but I usually find that Sonar does what I need it to do. Plugins, ...... now THAT'S a different story! Or weakness ........
 
I may not be a serious power user like some, but I've always had success with Sonar. Any problems I can't figure out on my own, I've always been able to get helpful advice and guidance on this forum. 
 
Sorry, getting off the soapbox now. Back to work .......