I've recently converted over to apple, but I don't want I lose sonar. Is there a way to keep sonar platinum on my IMac?

I am not an Apple user (or fan) but if you search this forum you will find many Apple users utilize Bootcamp to boot into Windows on their MACs. Some even say the MAC runs Sonar better than a Windows PC.You will have to get hold of a legal copy of Windows.
With google search for the following...
Bootcamp site:forum.cakewalk.com

I ran Sonar on a bootcamped Mac for a few years - works fine. I wouldn't go so far as to say it ran better, but it did run just as well:)
 
Avoid windows emulators like 'Parallels' that run a virtual machine inside OSX though. All resources are shared and the driver layering is a bit of a nightmare. Bootcamp works well because your Mac essentially boots up as a native windows machine and has full use of all resources.

Bootcamp...It's pretty easy to set-up. I've had no issues.

Though you shouldn't have any issues, running Sonar via Bootcamp is not technically supported.

Converted to Mac and wanting to keep SOANR is what Miracle Max would call "mostly dead".

I dunno, to me wanting to run SONAR on an Apple computer is mind boggling. Presumably one goes to a Apple/Mac for the software that is available/written for it.
 
To each his own.
 

Jim Roseberry
Though you shouldn't have any issues, running Sonar via Bootcamp is not technically supported.

Since bootcamp, as I understand it, is essentially just Apple supplied Windows drivers for their hardware, a dual-boot manager and an installation system that allows repartitioning without deleting the existing drive contents I can't see what there is not to support any more than two dual-boot Windows installations on the same hardware.

I'm pretty much PC-less at the moment, as the sig PC has become very unreliable, which means I've mostly been using Logic recently. I've been giving a lot of thought to dual booting the Macbook using bootcamp - Logic's OK, but Sonar has an edge in many ways and I'm far more used to how Sonar does things. Though I wish MS would come up with something that works as well as Apple's core audio and core MIDI.

bapu
I dunno, to me wanting to run SONAR on an Apple computer is mind boggling. Presumably one goes to a Apple/Mac for the software that is available/written for it.
 
To each his own.
 

 
Welcome to every Mac user at my work. I work for an engineering college and so most programs are Windows or Linux. There's some stuff with Mac support these days, but not a ton. What's more we have Windows and Linux support staff, and our central systems support both. So, you'd get a PC if you worked here, right?
 
Nah, some people have to get a Mac because, reasons. They generally have some justifications but usually what it actually comes down to is they think they are hip and cool to own and so they want one, particularly when the state is picking up the tab not them.
 
However reality then intrudes and they need to do things they can't on OS-X. So they get bootcamp and install Windows (for which we have a site license) so they can run their Windows software. Alternatively some of them get a Windows system and RDP in to it.
 
I cannot understand why, as it is extra cost and effort compared to just getting a Windows system, but as you say to each their own. It just annoys me when they then want Mac support :P

MAC and Boot Camp with Windows installed runs Well.  My Mac is a quad-core 4th-gen Haswell 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5 processor with 16GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM using Boot camp, I installed Windows 8 and then upgraded to Windows 10 with Sonar X3 installed.   My son uses Logic on the OS X side but I use Sonar X3 on the Windows side when we are in the play room of the house.
 
I do have a separate Daw for my studio which is just a Windows 10 PC and Sonar Platinum.
Get it, you won't regret it.