I for one am very happy the Cakewalk DAW will live on. I hope the initial changes are minimal and the GUI stays as it is for awhile. I would be really disappointed if it started looking like bubble pop or a menu from Chuck E Cheeze.

I’ll second that.
If I read Meng’s post correctly the “new” Sonar will not overwrite our existing install.
Let’s stop “speculating” and wait for the “new” release.
T

Tom:
 
  Your right, I shouldn't be speculating to much of that going on already, I'm really glad that the DAW I've been using since moby dick was a minnow will remain operational.

DeeringAmps
I’ll second that.
If I read Meng’s post correctly the “new” Sonar will not overwrite our existing install.
Let’s stop “speculating” and wait for the “new” release.
T

I would imagine that is largely because it will install to c/program files/bandlab (or whatever) rather that c/program files/cakewalk. That and the fact that the new version may not be allowed to contain some of the licensed stuff, plus it has the added benefit that if they did manage to screw something up during the respray existing installations will be unaffected = less backlash.
 
Speculation, although largely pointless, is actually far more interesting than "becan", so I'm ok with it personally.

I still find myself getting used to the new GUI but I like the layout and workflow. I've set myself up with a two monitor system and I rarely encounter any crashing still using windows 7 64 on an i5 intel with 16 gigs of ram. My wife hammers it with midi and I use it mostly for audio and I find it's more than capable. I have tried other DAWS but I always come back to Cakewalk for the workflow and creativity with audio and midi.
 
PS: The reason I'm dragging my feet in upgrading to windows 10 is the nasty windows 10 GUI with the tile sets and child like functionality. I don't wish to play bubble pop, I wish to do something worthwhile with my time

DeeringAmps
Let’s stop “speculating”

boo!

Team Green
 
PS: The reason I'm dragging my feet in upgrading to windows 10 is the nasty windows 10 GUI with the tile sets and child like functionality. I don't wish to play bubble pop, I wish to do something worthwhile with my time

that was win8, win10 is much more proper

pwalpwal

Team Green
 
PS: The reason I'm dragging my feet in upgrading to windows 10 is the nasty windows 10 GUI with the tile sets and child like functionality. I don't wish to play bubble pop, I wish to do something worthwhile with my time

that was win8, win10 is much more proper

Win10 looks like like win 7 got together with win 8 and they had an ugly, ginger kid IMO.

Bring back Vista I say!!

I wish cakewalk was linux compatable