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I would appreciate them not trying to be so "buddy-buddy" about it, as if all of us (users) and all of them were somehow part of one big "family" all looking out for each other.

So you want us to lie. Duly noted. 
 
You are certainly free to exempt yourself from being part of a family where everyone looks out for each other. Those who do feel like part of a family will continue to do so. 
 
Cakewalk is tiny part of Gibson. Cakewalk could fall off the earth tomorrow and it wouldn't make one iota of difference to Gibson Brands, except after the people at corporate eventually realized that it had fallen off the earth, it would make life easier because it would be one less division to track. Anyone who thinks that the profit motive was Gibson's reason for acquiring Cakewalk knows absolutely nothing about business. Even if Cakewalk was the biggest software company in the music industry its contribution to Gibson Brands' bottom line would still be negligible.
 
This is me speaking - not Cakewalk, not Gibson - but it's incredibly sad that people are so cynical they can't accept that a company truly believes that the only pathway to true success is to have happy customers. To think that Gibson and Cakewalk are simply out to "get" their users flies in the face of everything that's happened since X3 was introduced.
 
And I'm not even going to get into how much good Gibson has brought to the world through the Gibson Foundation, which does charitable work around the world and whose administrative costs are borne completely by Gibson, not the Foundation. When you buy something from Gibson Brands you are buying clean water for African children, helping cancer victims, those fighting muscular dystrophy, the blind, MusiCares, and a whole lot more...all because Gibson's CEO thinks it's important to give back. And he won't even talk it up because he's doing it to give back, not get credit. He might even chastise me for this rant if he sees it.
 
Some people do give a damn.
 
 
 

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Andrew, you could say this 1,000 times in 1,000 different threads, and then some people would start posting "Why does Andrew keep telling us that SONAR is very important to Cakewalk and not going away? He would not be doing this if there wasn't something to cover up!"
 
Just sayin.' Go to the "January 2015" drawer in your office's file cabinet, and put these kinds of posts in the same file folders as "Cakewalk will never deliver monthly updates," "Cakewalk has no incentive to deliver any monthly updates now that they have our membership money," and "Cakewalk will be out of business within one year of being acquired by Gibson."

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Andrew, you could say this 1,000 times in 1,000 different threads, and then some people would start posting "Why does Andrew keep telling us that SONAR is very important to Cakewalk and not going away? He would not be doing this if there wasn't something to cover up!"
 
Just sayin.' Go to the "January 2015" drawer in your office's file cabinet, and put these kinds of posts in the same file folders as "Cakewalk will never deliver monthly updates," "Cakewalk has no incentive to deliver any monthly updates now that they have our membership money," and "Cakewalk will be out of business within one year of being acquired by Gibson."

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Andrew, you could say this 1,000 times in 1,000 different threads, and then some people would start posting "Why does Andrew keep telling us that SONAR is very important to Cakewalk and not going away? He would not be doing this if there wasn't something to cover up!"
 
Just sayin.' Go to the "January 2015" drawer in your office's file cabinet, and put these kinds of posts in the same file folders as "Cakewalk will never deliver monthly updates," "Cakewalk has no incentive to deliver any monthly updates now that they have our membership money," and "Cakewalk will be out of business within one year of being acquired by Gibson."

This may be true Craig, and I understand your frustration, but I have to say the details of the lifetime deal have taken a while to be clarified. It is not just the tin foil hat brigade that have had questions; it is also some very loyal users including forum hosts. It is much easier to accept change when you have all of the information. The  'pre huge, no, big announcement announcements' fuelling speculation did not help the process.

Making assumptions that Cakewalk is going to dump SONAR in a couple of years to get people to pay for updates all over again is NOT a detail that needs to be clarified. It flies in the face of everything that has been stated clearly and emphatically by CW in multiple threads. Andrew stated it once again, clearly and emphatically. That is what I responded to, and that is what is frustrating - not some "detail."
 
CW is saying essentially the same thing FL Studio did about their free updates, but I don't recall people speculating that FL Studio was going to be pulling some kind of giant con. It's insulting, especially given how the previous "gloom and doom" speculations to which I referred were so spectacularly wrong.

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[ especially given how the previous "gloom and doom" speculations to which I referred were so spectacularly wrong.

moving air
I want so badly to believe this upgrade is legit, but it makes no sense for them to do it, from a business standpoint. Which makes me think there's come October, a new flagship will be floating onto the scene. Nobody gives away the farm like this. Just doesn't add up.