Quick question, who maintains activation of older Sonar versions now? Activation servers for Command Center stays with Gibson or Bandlab took over? In other words, what are future prospect of activating older versions, will it be possible or I'll have to move on to Bandlab version?

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Currently the old customer database is still active and so will activate through command center. Its not sure how long this will stay active so you should transition over to the CbB version as soon as possible. It will soon be a superset of SONAR Platinum and so there will be little reason to use older versions anyway. You can leave them installed for some of the included plugins you may have got as part of your paid membership. All the included content can be used in CbB so you lose nothing.
 
 

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^ This

Adobe didn't go belly up, so they kind of had to provide the installers to avoid legal hassle (I've been hit by this too, bad luck for software choices, eh). Cakewalk is closed and Bandlab only purchased IP, so...
This is bad news, but thanks for clarification.

mister happy
In fact, what we may lose is the ability to use the software license we purchased rights too and if we need to reinstall the older software after the activation server is shut down we may be cheated out of those rights,

When Adobe shut down their CS2 servers they provided a way to install that generation of software which still works even though Adobe has subsequently produced 5 generations and several years worth of CC products.

The company who bought Cakewalk’s customers may do the same for its customers or it may not and try to distract everyone with free stuff and promises of more.

+1

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Currently the old customer database is still active and so will activate through command center. Its not sure how long this will stay active so you should transition over to the CbB version as soon as possible. It will soon be a superset of SONAR Platinum and so there will be little reason to use older versions anyway. You can leave them installed for some of the included plugins you may have got as part of your paid membership. All the included content can be used in CbB so you lose nothing.

Noel, I'm very happy you're involved in the new vision. Thank you!
However,
So far, after a quick look at CbB I can tell you what I, personally, will loose by abandoning SPLAT 2017.01 for CbB
and in a very simple one sentence evaluation.


I would loose a much more powerful and faster for my work flow PRV.

I promise I will be eventually be writing up a full A vs B evaluation of how and why 2017.01 PRV smokes the current CbB PRV in speed and elegance of work flow.
 
Very Long run:
My worst case scenario is that X3 can be installed without authorization.
(X3 PRV not as fast/good as 2017.01 but still better than CbB.)
Best case, CbB gets hip to the jive and fixes a few things that are real work flow slow downs.
 
Edit:
PRV Shootout: CbB vs 2017.01
http://forum.cakewalk.com...-m3747143.aspx#3747143

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Currently the old customer database is still active and so will activate through command center. Its not sure how long this will stay active so you should transition over to the CbB version as soon as possible. It will soon be a superset of SONAR Platinum and so there will be little reason to use older versions anyway. You can leave them installed for some of the included plugins you may have got as part of your paid membership. All the included content can be used in CbB so you lose nothing.
 
 

somewhere in there was a how do we install those included plugins so we lose nothing in the future when we build a new PC. :-)

1. Music Creator 7
2. Rapture Pro/Rapture Session
3. SONAR Platinum/Professional/Artist
4. Z3TA+ 2
5. CA-2A
 
The above applications are listed as requiring "offline activation" with access to the internet for an activation file. They invisibly activate if using CCC, but presumably will no longer do so after the CCC link is broken. Some of us purchased the softsynths before they came bundled with SONAR, which itself will not longer activate without an activation server to provide an activation file, and some customers bought them without buying SONAR. So clearly the availability of Cakewalk by Bandlab is not a solution to everyone's problems.