Anderton
You'll keep seeing the "Friday's Tip of the Week," I'll stay involved in the forums, continue to give workshops and seminars on it, and look for ways that SONAR can get the recognition it rightfully deserves (as well as nudge the developers to improve it).
 

That's good to know. Would you be kind enough to nudge the suits on service and support, too?
 
I'm glad you're feeling the respect and gratitude. It's recognition that's well-deserved.

"We found that the EZine as a PDF and shared through our website and the forum was not the best way of delivery information to all our customers." It appears we will be educated soon as to what IS the best way. 
 
For me, the EZine was a great way to get up-to-speed on Sonar changes. I downloaded each one to my tablet for easy reference. It remains to be seen how Cakewalk can top this.
 
Videos are nice, but it's doubtful that all EZine-type data can be covered in videos. Assembling the information and producing a video takes a lot more work than assembling information and putting it out as a PDF.
 
The only problem with the EZine is the fact that Cakewalk didn't make it available directly from the Command Center with program updates. I'll be monitoring to see if Cakewalk provides us with a true improvement...or just needless change that provides us with less information than we'd like. 

I do hate to come off as judgemental and overtly opinionated,especially for an old Zep Head Hippie,but this Mr Lance Riley looks a bit straight,and overtly conservative within an artistic medium of music creation,I'm wondering if my judging the book by it's cover has something to do with the decision,like ALL of Gibson's minute foray into Left Handed Electric Guitars having RIGHT HANDED volume and tone controls,where as Fender,ESP,Ibanez realize we NEED to control our guitars gain and sound like a Right Handed Person-Rolling the Volume UP usually with one's little finger towards the rear strap button end and upwards-anticlockwise!
 
After waiting 30 years for an affordable REAL Les Paul,albeit the the 2010 Left Hand Studio,with weight relief,only to be horrified there was no way it was playable Live in stock condition. I do wonder if Craig's enormous input is being handled with the same thinking?
Bob

I will miss the eZine as well.  I will look towards Harmony Central more now and keep on looking at Sound on Sound as his SONAR articles there are great!  BTW, let us know when the Big Book of Tips Vol 2 is released.  I will buy that too!
 

 
I too, like many others, am extremely sad that the EZine has been discontinued.
 
In fact, contrary to the reasons stated for it being discontinued, I actually think it was a really good and effective mode of information delivery. Firstly, all the information regarding the update itself including the files to download and the brief on all the updated features. Apart from that, the extras and tips, etc. It was a very convenient document to be able to save and refer back offline at any time without having to connect to the web to refer to the update information.
 
Needless to say, a lot of effort must have gone into the production of this document.
 
Kudos to Craig and all the other contributors of the document. Please be assured that all your effort was indeed very useful and valued by Sonar users.
 
I sure hope that whichever "better" mode of information delivery gets introduced would include a similar downloadable pdf document as an option in any case because that was what made the EZine mode effective.
Thanks once again to Craig and the whole EZine team.
 
 

Anderton...FWIW in all the threads commenting on eZine articles or on the eZine itself, there was never a comment that the PDF format was unsuitable for any reason....

Honestly, I didn't know or care that it was .pdf.
 
Walt

Anderton

burkek
PDFs are generally not accessible (unless specifically made so), don't re-flow on a mobile device with a small screen, and sometimes require a third-party viewer just to see them. Definitely a no-brainer to discontinue the format.
 
KEv

 
Actually you really don't need a reader at all, which is a good thing because I’m not a fan of Acrobat. Google and Chrome include efficient built-in readers, the Mac’s Preview app reads PDFs, Linux distributions come with a PDF reader like Evince, iPhones and iPads have built-in PDF support, and of course Android has a built-in PDF viewer. 
 
Before deciding to use the PDF format, I tested on iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Mac and Windows desktops and laptops, and with third-party PDF viewers (e.g., Foxit), as well as the one from Adobe. Everything loaded exactly as it was supposed to and scaled appropriately to the screen size. I used 12 point instead of 10 or 9 point fonts to make the eZine readable on small screens. I also verified that the content inside the PDF was discoverable by Google. 
 
I felt it was important for the eZine to have production values - text flow around images, no widows, appropriate page breaks and line spacings, plenty of graphics, etc. The PDF format preserved all the page layout elements perfectly on all the devices tested above. My assumption was that most people would read it on a mobile device, on a desktop, or download into something like an iPad. The PDF accommodated all of those options while preserving the layout, and had the benefit of global universality.
 
FWIW in all the threads commenting on eZine articles or on the eZine itself, there was never a comment that the PDF format was unsuitable for any reason. I don't think anyone expected it to be an eBook formatted for something like the Kindle.

PDF is and was clearly the best format choice for anything to distribute for both off and on-line viewing.  It is virtually universal cross platform.   

First strategic error of the Gibson era... The EZines were soooo good! Thank you Craig and all the team.
Written content is the base to understand such a complicated software, the videos are only add-ons.

Oh man how did I not know about the eZine? And now that it's gone I'm going to miss it. I'm off to read some back issues. Thanks for your work Craig!

What a Shame! It was a wonderful resource. Thanks for the effort Craig.