I call it SPLAT because I don't no how to spell Platinium 
It was much nicer when we could say X1 or X3e  That's easier to spell :) 
But the alternatives would have been PLAT  or SOPLAT or SOPL  or SOPT and calling it 23.6.1 is totally un-glamorous . 
There some assumptions going on here where people are thinking the "New DAW" will be a continuation of Sonar as we know it. I don't even think Bandlab have gotten to that point in the plan. 

Some of the "assumptions" probably came from what Meng himself said on page one of the Hello from BandLab thread:
 
Quick note as it was asked about in another thread - the reason why I am not using the word SONAR when referring to the new flagship product is not because it's planned to be a different product, it's just that we're doing the legal/brand work to make sure calling it that would be the right thing to do and wouldn't cause any confusion in the market given the circumstances over the last couple of months. You can take it to mean "future version of SONAR, or whatever it might be called".
 
For what it's worth, I'm interpreting Meng's statement to mean that the new DAW will at least start out significantly more similar to Sonar than different. Of course, everyone is free to interpret it however they want.
 

BJZ

sharke
conjure up an image of a wet thing hitting a surface and exploding when talking about a DAW..... Is that what happens to your music when you use Sonar? 

Yup. Sadly.

Me too 

 

sharke
conjure up an image of a wet thing hitting a surface and exploding when talking about a DAW..... Is that what happens to your music when you use Sonar? 

Worked pretty well for Jackson Pollack in the Art scene. However, I still entertain hope that music afficianados are more sophisticated. But I could be wrong.

sharke

michael diemer
Meng, please, whatever you do, don't call it Splat.

 People saying things like "Guys, I just opened up my SPLAT and....

 
I just opened the spit valve on my trombone and SPAT!
 
Hahaha

I'm just thinking out loud.

Wouldn't it make business sense for BandLab to simply rebrand SPLAT as it currently exists, and offer it as a free upgrade to any existing Sonar user? It would be an inexpensive win / win to get the most customers onboard in the shortest time. What happens after that is up to them.

pbognar
I'm just thinking out loud.

Wouldn't it make business sense for BandLab to simply rebrand SPLAT as it currently exists, and offer it as a free upgrade to any existing Sonar user? It would be an inexpensive win / win to get the most customers onboard in the shortest time. What happens after that is up to them.

Which could require a new Bandlab Theme, that may be made with theme editor, which would need some fixes if the don't want t make some compromises on the theme.
 
Yay!

pbognar
I'm just thinking out loud.

Wouldn't it make business sense for BandLab to simply rebrand SPLAT as it currently exists, and offer it as a free upgrade to any existing Sonar user? It would be an inexpensive win / win to get the most customers onboard in the shortest time. What happens after that is up to them.

I think if they did that they would probably lose as many as they would gain and the ones that they would lose would be the ones that they really ought to be doing their best to hang on to - ie those that regularly pay. Imagine the fume here as customers who haven't put their hands in their pockets since Sonar 5 Studio was thing are given for nothing what many others have regularly paid for (never mind the lifetime updates that they never got). Not only that, but all the "customers" that they just gained are by definition those that don't buy the updates anyway. Who needs them?
 
HS has been available for free for some time now, so legacy product owners already have that route back in to the "latest" versions and they could be allowed upgrade pricing from there which would seem more fair.
 
Personally, other than putting some new stickers on it, I would be very surprised if the first Bandlab offering is significantly different from what we are all used to anyway. Maybe some of what would have been the last of last years monthly updates thrown in if you're lucky, but I can't see it being any more than that. Not sure that I want it to be either tbh.

paulo

pbognar
I'm just thinking out loud.

Wouldn't it make business sense for BandLab to simply rebrand SPLAT as it currently exists, and offer it as a free upgrade to any existing Sonar user? It would be an inexpensive win / win to get the most customers onboard in the shortest time. What happens after that is up to them.

I think if they did that they would probably lose as many as they would gain and the ones that they would lose would be the ones that they really ought to be doing their best to hang on to - ie those that regularly pay. Imagine the fume here as customers who haven't put their hands in their pockets since Sonar 5 Studio was thing are given for nothing what many others have regularly paid for (never mind the lifetime updates that they never got). Not only that, but all the "customers" that they just gained are by definition those that don't buy the updates anyway. Who needs them?
 
HS has been available for free for some time now, so legacy product owners already have that route back in to the "latest" versions and they could be allowed upgrade pricing from there which would seem more fair.
 
Personally, other than putting some new stickers on it, I would be very surprised if the first Bandlab offering is significantly different from what we are all used to anyway. Maybe some of what would have been the last of last years monthly updates thrown in if you're lucky, but I can't see it being any more than that. Not sure that I want it to be either tbh.

I'm thinking up your lines of reasoning to, but November update that never came and I bet December, January update was in the works and that would be nice to get.