i have 14 projects in the works, all at once,
and i'm considering doing my DAW upgrade now.
 
problem is, i don't want to upgrade now unless i can seamlessly (minus plug-ins, of course) blend the old projects over into the new DAW.
 
 

Hi. I did not have SONAR 6, but I recently opened .cwb files made in SONAR 2 without any issues other than a few missing plugins.
All the best.

that's a good sign for my situation, thanks!
 

batsbrew
i have 14 projects in the works, all at once,
and i'm considering doing my DAW upgrade now.
 
problem is, i don't want to upgrade now unless i can seamlessly (minus plug-ins, of course) blend the old projects over into the new DAW.
 
 

Hi Gonzo ,
 
Yes , you should be good to go once you do your upgrade .....
 
As you mentioned , yes there will be a missing plug / synth dialog box to address ....
 
I have noticed that Dimension Pro from 6 PE comes up MIA as far as loading and it will be included as MIA in the dialog box  in my Splat projects ..
It may be due to the fact that I was running 6 PE in XP 32 bit and the Dimension Pro that comes in the later versions of SONAR may have totally different pathways VIA it's installation / 64 bit structure ...
I'm sure if one of the developers read this they may have the correct answer ...
In my case when confronted w that issue I clear the decks and put in a new instance of Dimension Pro and hunt for the patch I used   (usually I find a better patch anyway since I bought some expansions )
 
When certain 6 PE projects from " the days of old " are being opened up in Splat I noticed there was a dialog box would that come up and tell me that I was using The Soniutus sp ? EQ when I went / wanted  to switch over to the Pro Channel EQ ...
 
IIRC , it asked me to hit shift when I went to close the dialog box to use the Pro Channel EQ ...
 
Once again ,  I'm sure if one of the developers read this they may have the correct answer as to why this is so ...
 
In any event , I wish you the best of Luck  during your transition ...
You have always made some nice sounds .
 
all the best,
 
Kenny
 

Don't uninstall Sonar 6. You can still revert back to it for projects that don't behave in the new version. I have a lot of old projects that were initially created in Sonar 6 and developed further in Sonar 7. Although they all open in Sonar X3 without any issues and seem to playback ok at first, they usually crash after a few minutes.

+1 to above info. And if it's a whole new system I think You can still install Sonar 6 into the latest windows. 
I would not use Bundle files,,, I would save them as CWP for sure as well
No proof but you will see more posts with people having issues when trying to open old CWB files as appose to CWP fles. 
And I also recommend saving all projects as a MID file as well. MID files will always open and often represent a lot of work that goes into drum parts. We can always play the guitar parts again and probably better :) 

Cakewalk has always gone out of their way to preserve backward compatibility. I have never had a problem going from one version to the next, so I wouldn't be worried.
 
And of course your guarantee, your insurance, is to install 6PE on the new DAW. You'll always be able to fall back to it in a pinch, plus you'll retain any SONAR-bundled plugins that have been dropped since version 6 (e.g. Pantheon, Vintage Channel).
 
More likely, your biggest headaches will result from the hardware change.
 
If you followed any nonstandard conventions when installing third-party software on your old DAW, be sure to stick to them when re-installing on the new machine. That's not always as easy as it sounds. Kontakt in particular will be a PIA if, for example, you add an SSD for virtual instruments and it has a different drive letter than where the libraries lived on the old DAW. 
 
New hardware also means many of your third-party licenses will be invalidated. In some cases that can require de-activating your existing license and then re-authorizing. That can be time-consuming if you have a lot of third-party software, and it might be months before you find them all.
 
 
 
 
 

i think the ONLY thing i have 3rd party is Toontracks.
 
and my old daw is never connected,
so all updates have to have been done via a thumbdrive,
which has made for a super stable DAW,
but a real pain in the kiester for updates....
 
i don't know what a MID file is....
 
and usually, once i'm through with a project, i bounce any MIDI data to audio (drum tracks is all i ever have that's not straight up audio to start with)
 
 
CWP, check.
 

The thing your going to hate the most is dealing with W10. I hate it because very time I try and get any work done it is yet again updating,,, ya, updating 100 apps I'll never use.... And once it's done you often have to re set your preferences and re authorize things like AD2.  
My wife hates it as well. She want's me to re install W7.   I use windows 7 at work where the IT guy's say they have no plans to upgrade, why would we they say.. W10 is not a good system for huge networks. 
If you can get your hands on a copy of W7 I bet you'll be much happier.... 
I think it will be supported until 2020. 
 

Cactus Music
The thing your going to hate the most is dealing with W10. I hate it because very time I try and get any work done it is yet again updating,,, ya, updating 100 apps I'll never use.... And once it's done you often have to re set your preferences and re authorize things like AD2.  
My wife hates it as well. She want's me to re install W7.   I use windows 7 at work where the IT guy's say they have no plans to upgrade, why would we they say.. W10 is not a good system for huge networks. 
If you can get your hands on a copy of W7 I bet you'll be much happier.... 
I think it will be supported until 2020. 
 

Reminds me of walking in to a DR's office and you notice they are still running Windows XP