Seeing as both Meng and Noel have both just appeared in this thread this might be my best chance to get an answer to what I think is an important question.

Regarding the Software forum’s sticky thread entitled Sonar and Cakewalk by Bandlab’s Resources and Utilities.

With discussion about the eventual change of forums I would really like to know if the thread I’ve mentioned above has any future in that arrangement.

I’d hate to see everyone’s efforts just become part of a legacy forum. It would be nice to know that it has Cakewalk’s support and will be continued in the new forum.

a13xhp
Meng has said several times that there is an "aggressive roadmap" coming....

And I see that as a problem right there. Why are they wasting precious development resources on a roadmap when every smartphone comes with some kind of navigation app and it has nothing to do with the traditional core needs of the recording musician?
 
True, there are plenty of musicians who tour, and in face of dwindling revenues from sales of physical media and downloads, touring is becoming essential for young musicians who hope to have an originals band earn money. But for a DAW to incorporate a roadmap, no matter how "aggressive," seems like almost the silliest feature I can imagine. Who among the countless of us who uses the program in a home or professional studio even cares about the program having a navigation feature unless we're trying to tell the pizza delivery person how to get there? Shouldn't we already know how to get to our own studios anyway?
 
And is this thing going to be a ProChannel module, a VST, fit in the Multi-Dock, or what? When I downloaded CbB and started using it back in April, I could tell that it had acquired its many features over 3 different decades. Even the user-facing nomenclature isn't 100% consistent, and I find myself applying "region" FX to "clips." So if we're going to have this map thing, I hope it at least looks consistent with the rest of the program. Will it be Theme-able?
 
Am I just confused and this has something to do with that "Chord Map" or "Chord Track" thing that people have been begging for? An "aggressive chord map," maybe? Like drop-tuned with palm muting? Are the young people still into that? It used to wreak havoc with the Stratocasters at my place.
 
 
(yes, as a matter of fact, I am joking!)

No sense in tipping off the competition I suppose. Once they have a copy of your roadmap, the risk of them heading you off at every turn becomes much greater.

Euthymia

a13xhp
Meng has said several times that there is an "aggressive roadmap" coming....

And I see that as a problem right there. Why are they wasting precious development resources on a roadmap when every smartphone comes with some kind of navigation app and it has nothing to do with the traditional core needs of the recording musician?
 
.....
 
(yes, as a matter of fact, I am joking!)

LOL I'm all for a sat nav pro channel module in Cake.
 
I don't think the aggressive roadmap Meng referred to is just about the software development but applies to the integration of Cakewalk and associated assets into Bandlab's business model as well as the data migration, and the direction of Cakewalk. That's a pretty huge roadmap that if you pulled it out of the glove compartment and unfolded it, you would never, ever be able to fold it up properly again. 

I don't agree that newbies are kept out of Cakewalk.  There are well developed tutorials that explain how to use Cakewalk.  VTC's are really good.  I am working with a Sonar 5 version of a tutorial and am still finding about aspects I didn't know about.  They have 8.5 and an X1 each are around 8 hours long so I think the materials are out there for people to look for.  VTC find a discount coupon for it and it's a good deal.  I also subscribe to Safari books and with their discount coupon for 1/2 price the service is really good and they have 5 books on Sonar.  So the idea that Sonar is shut out to newbies is invalid.  
    As far as Band, I look forward to their improvements.  I am more intrested in VST instruments and midi files than I am in audio so that is the aspect I am interested in using.  Thank you BandLab for your improvements.