Is there a consensus yet whether it's prudent to go ahead and uninstall Cakewalk Sonar in favor of BandLab Cakewalk? And, are we still using Command Center? It was mentioned in the BandLab letter, but I'm wondering if it's something that needs to be redownloaded or updated.

I'd recommend keeping it.
 
The Sonar Platinum specific files are only around 330MB (200MB in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Sonar Platinum - half of which is the help files, and 130MB in AppData\Roaming\Cakewalk)
 
The equivalent CbB (Cakewalk core) files only take up around 120MB.
 
Everything else is in common folders, which means both Sonar and CbB use them.
 
You don't want to be in the situation where uninstalling Sonar removes all the extra content along with it that CbB doesn't have.
 
M.

DO NOT UN-INSTALL SONAR IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE USING THE 3rd PARTY SOFTWARE THAT
CAME FREE WITH SONAR!
that is all...
 
T

And YES I was intentionally "raising" my voice.

The fact is if you were to only have CbB it would be more like having what came with Home Studio or Artist. 
My last DAW set up had a 128 SSD and I had 8.5, X1LE, X3e, Pro and Plat.  The software part takes up very little room. 

Just to echo the above sentiments - remove previous versions at your peril!!
 
And don't come back moaning when all your projects complain about missing plugins 

Isn't the Command Centre defunct anyway? Ive just uninstalled that...
 
While this 'demo mode' issue is lurking I'll keep Splat but I guess when CbB is solid then I may consider removing SPlat. Surely all 3rd party pluigns purchased along the way in various iterations of Sonar will work in CbB?

Will it installing CbB mess with my Studio One install? I still have Platinum installed but am reluctant to install CbB. 

 

LOSTinSWIRL
Will it installing CbB mess with my Studio One install? I still have Platinum installed but am reluctant to install CbB. 

Why. You can have dozens of Daw's installed on your computer, you can have tonnes of software installed. Why would it make a difference? 
 

quietman
Isn't the Command Centre defunct anyway? Ive just uninstalled that...
 
While this 'demo mode' issue is lurking I'll keep Splat but I guess when CbB is solid then I may consider removing SPlat. Surely all 3rd party pluigns purchased along the way in various iterations of Sonar will work in CbB?

Sure you can uninstall CCC but why bother? As said these take up soooo little room and doing so could cause issues, why risk that just to gain a few MB of disk space? 
And you WILL loose certain things if you uninstall Splat, that's been explained a few time in other threads. 
 
You want to save disk space,, back up your CCC download folder somewhere and delete that. 
Or move your content to a data drive. Do not delete Splat. 
 

 



Sure you can uninstall CCC but why bother? As said these take up soooo little room and doing so could cause issues, why risk that just to gain a few MB of disk space? 
And you WILL loose certain things if you uninstall Splat, that's been explained a few time in other threads. 
 
You want to save disk space,, back up your CCC download folder somewhere and delete that. 
Or move your content to a data drive. Do not delete Splat. 
 


Cant see the point in having CCC installed anymore...its not a case of saving disk-space..its a defunct app... Splat will remain for me for a long while...