SONAR should and can stay alive !!!

Hi
I am so sad about cakewalk. I learnt music pace by pace using Cakewalk products back in "Pro audio 9" days. SONAR have been such a wonderful software that I couldn't have imagined some day it stops existence this much easily. I was thinking about the ways that SONAR can be saved and this thought came to my mind: "is it possible that Microsoft buys SONAR ?" I mean  MAC has Logic so why not Windows and Sonar? Isn't it wonderful?  If it is possible can we write and sign a  to Microsoft and ask them to do so ? 
I believe the community of SONAR users should do something and not stay passive. Please give your opinions about this.
 

There are a couple new community's from this old one:
 
BEYOND CAKEWALK
http://beyondcakewalk.com/forum/index.php
and
PLAN B
http://sonarmods.com/sonarmods/forum2017/index.php

martins guit
i signed...

So did I

I thought the US was where the entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well.  So I expected a handful of the developers to have drowned their sorrows in a bar and then, defiantly, formed a company, talked to mates/relatives who were attorneys and/or wanted to make an investment and then took and offer to Gibson for the rights to the code and the customer database. This DAW beats others hands down (as being evidenced by most of us test-driving others) and could be cultivated into the high ranking place it so deserves from a small boutique re-start.  Guys, Boston, you've disappointed me.

 
 

I signed! Fingers crossed.

Signed!
I downloaded Presonus DAW. Its a joke. Compared to Sonar.
I tried it for 30 minutes. Went frustrated and uninstalled it.
It just isnt Sonar. Sonar are so much smoother to work with.
Everything just works in Sonar.

YA FIRME.... LONG LIVE SONAR¡¡¡¡ 
 

If enough people are interested we could form a cooperative and do a customer buy out, similar to "management buy out". Then we would become straight out owners of our own tool. Just a thought. 

I've narrowed down my alternate choices (for a backup DAW) to Studio One 3 and Reaper.
Studio One is solid, easy to setup and use, but I don't care much for the GUI (graphical user interface)
And Reaper, while it's got a much steeper learning curve, and has crashed a couple of times using my plugins, has the BEST GUI I've ever seen.  Actually not the factory GUI, but the theme sets available for it  
I always wanted Sonar to have an interface that looks like an old-school mixing board with backlit "cube style" buttons and lots of simulated LED lights.  (And yes I know it's what the DAW can do, and not so much what it looks like, but still....)





This is one of the more popular user-created themes, and one of my favorites.  There are tons more, with a big variety of styles and colors.  But in the end I keep going back to Sonar Platinum for doing any "real" work.

Zargg
And it's possible (if you want) to sign here.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/microsoft-please-rescue-cakewalk-and-sonar-out-of
All the best.

Thanx zargg, I signed it.....how can we make this petition more known?i only saw it from reading this post

bapu

Zargg

martins guit
i signed...

So did I

I did too and now my bank account is drained.
 
Fair warning, it may have been the purchases I recently made and not the signing of the petition.

Fanks

well yeah..i installed reaper...and it recognised all my sonar plugins...so that's a win

To Lee (and others)...I strongly suggest you look at samplitude.  I am finding it powerful and not totally dissimilar to sonar.

I signed, Microsoft is a long shot, but it's probably the only major buyer who would be interested in a Windows-only program (and willing to stick with it until it at least broke even).