I'm going to spend my time working with X3 - I have a lot to accomplish today, and X3 is getting the job done pretty well, so I am not going to bother myself with the 'when' game.
 
A new release/update will show up whenever it does, and Cakewalk doesn't seem inclined to share their details with the forum, so that's that, for me.
 
Is there any particular point to this thread, other than the fun of guessing and speculating? (don't get me wrong, it's a big planet, and it is not for me to decide who can talk/discuss about whatever.  It just seems like a colossal waste of time, to me).
 
Bob Bone
 

 
OMG I'm loving the stories …the fella writing them has some serious chops 
 
Kenny

robert_e_bone
Is there any particular point to this thread, other than the fun of guessing and speculating? 

YES!! Entertaining kennywtelejazz and Stickman. So there!

paulo
This is all sounding very much like when some forum members posts were deleted last year for showing another site's X3 adverts that were supposedly innacurate but bore a very close (read exact) resemblence to what was released very shortly afterwards. It could hardly be classed a surprising for CW to release a new version in the 4th qtr of the year, so the applying of pressure to forum members to remove speculative posts or the deletion of them by CW seems to serve only to increase the likelihood that it's true and someone has let the cat out of the bag before they should have. Would it not serve them better to just ignore the speculation if that indeed is all it is ?

 
But seriously...Cakewalk itself may be able to shed some more light on what you're saying, but to me the situation isn't really all that analogous. Last year, there was a firm release date at the time those ads appeared, and the info was supposedly embargoed until then. Press releases are often embargoed as well, but get posted by accident or laziness (people didn't read the embargo date). Just last week, there was a big flap when Amazon posted info on upcoming Gibson guitars that was embargoed until a specific date. Of course it was removed immediately and of course, if anything is on the web for more than 500 milliseconds it goes global shortly thereafter.
 
But in this case, the image not only originated from within Cakewalk, but as part of a tech tip. Given that X4 doesn't exist yet, I can't imagine publishing a tech tip specifically based around it. What WOULD make me think it's real is if the program's release was imminent, and the tip was presented as a "Here's a cool preview of what you can do with X4! Warm up your credit card!" type of thing. Speculative posts have obviously not been deleted or this thread wouldn't exist, but if a screen shot is represented as X4 and it isn't, if I were Cakewalk I wouldn't want it to go any further lest people be misled.
 
The reason why many companies are secretive is often because projects are in flux for long periods of time. 

Will "Sonar" still be part of the name? I kind of thought it would be Tascam something or other by Cakewalk.

Hahahaha Craig that's great. You should totally do a DAW underworld book :)
You nailed the Rossa and Munnis characters lol.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Hahahaha Craig that's great. You should totally do a DAW underworld book :)
You nailed the Rossa and Munnis characters lol.

 
I think it's a quite a coup that we were able to get Shakrukh Khan to play you in the movie. He just sent me an email, he's so excited about the part he's started growing a mustache! DeNiro sent regrets about the Rossa role, though. Said he really was too old for the part, and I can see his point. So DiCaprio's people are calling our people, we'll see what happens.  
 
www.sonarxfourthemovie.com
 
Coming Summer 2017!

clintmartin
Will "Sonar" still be part of the name? I kind of thought it would be Tascam something or other by Cakewalk.

See this is why you have to be careful about what gets let out there. There are plans to have a distribution company named TASCAM Professional Software that would distribute Cakewalk Sonar. No firm date, though 
 
Sonar was going to be part of the name, but I suggested they reverse it. "Ranos" has a nice ring to it. Like an Egyptian king or something.
 
Hey! I think I have a new character for my story! It can turn into something more like "The Mummy," where King Ranos from ancient Egypt must use Sonar's magical powers to create frequencies that synchronize all the world's pyramids...then Ranos can return from the Underworld, and rule over the entire planet. Only Noel Borthwick, with the Coffee Cup of Doom, stands in the way...but Borthwick doesn't realize the coffee cup is made with pieces of Ranos's coffin, and Ranos must obtain the Coffee Cup of Doom to re-constitute his body. So the movie opens with Borthwick being kidnapped by Nazi scientists from the moon, and the first part of the movie involves a frantic hunt by Cakewalk's support team, assisted by friendly grays, to find Dr. Borthwick before it's too late! We can have CGI sandstorms, bionic camels, monsters attacking bionic camels...this has blockbuster written all over it!!

BREAKING NEWS!!! We've signed Danny DeVito to play the pivotal role of the coffee cup!!
 

robert_e_bone
Is there any particular point to this thread, other than the fun of guessing and speculating?

That's not enough ?