Sonar + Windows 10

Will the new Sonar be compatible with Windows 10?  I'm nervous about buying it now knowing I will definitely be upgrading to Windows 10 the moment it is released.
 
Thanks!

Skyline_UK

• show where their car is parked"

This begs the question: Do I need to leave my Windows Phone in the car for this to work? And another: Does this mean I have to buy a Windows Phone?

Thinking about it, there could be some added value services here that operators of professional studios could offer
their clients, so differentiating them from the competition:
 
"Before you guys leave, I should bundle up; there's going to be a cold front moving in soon."
"Oh, and in case the copious amounts of Jack Daniels you just consumed in the session is still working, your car is the tan one over on the right just as you go out."

 

Skyline_UK

• show where their car is parked"

I think you are missing the important part - that is what the voice assistant can do. Not the general feature set of Windows 10.

In retrospect..... The transition between W7>W8 was very smooth. The transition between W95 W98 was somewhat rocky since ASIO was being developed. The transition between W98>W-XP  was somewhat rocky since the core now was NT and it was 32bit instead of 16. And the transition W-XP W7 was rocky for some because of 32 bit > 64 bit. But Cakewalk was way way ahead as they had been developing 64 bit since 3 versions and offered both so customers would not suffer.... Because of hardware and driver issues Cakewalk has allways been upfront about what works and what not ...... And has warm relations with most hardware manufacturers.... So I'd say you'll be good. I do espect thunderbolt to be lowlevel integrated. Since Intel owns thunderbolt they do make hardware changes usually without notifying the multimedia community. But they now are working closely with Apple too. And half the multimedia community is on that platform too. So I have a very good feeling about W10. 
 
But the proof is in the pudding so they say....

I wouldn't worry about it too much.
 
Windows 10 is little more than 8.1 with a start menu and some stuff.
The New Sonar is little more that X3 with some stuff.
 
I have the win 10 tech preview and haven't found any thing that wont run that does run in 8.1
All the windows COM components seems happy and even ActiveX EXEs run as expected too.
While I haven't run PLAT on 10 I would be floored if it didn't work.
 
 
 
 

The Bakers have had a relationship with Intel and Microsoft for years, I am confident that this will be a non-issue,

As long as they stay away from porting Sonar to run as a "modern" app, I'm sure it would be fine.
 
Right now it is impossible to get low latency on WinRT (aka "modern"/Metro/toy apps) since they have removed all audio APIs that had any chance if giving you low latency, and only left shared mode WASAPI. Meaning a 160 ms round trip latency at best. I was in the process of porting a real app to a "modern" app and gave up once I realized this.
 
And people wonder why there are no "modern" quality audio apps in the Windows Store.

SilkTone
Right now it is impossible to get low latency on WinRT (aka "modern"/Metro/toy apps)

This likely won't be an issue for most. Besides, those using W-RT won't be able to upgrade for free anyway, sorry to say.

Windows 10 is great so far.
 
As Hill62 pointed out, drivers for Hardware will be the issue. Roland (Edirol), for example took aged to release drivers for Windows 8. Forget the fact that it had been available in preview form for a YEAR before public release. It was pathetic.
 
Even more pathetic is that their Windows 7 drivers COULD have worked fine, but they wrote their drivers to NOT install if the operating system wasn't specifically Windows 7. Most other drivers wont lock you out that way.
 
I'm hoping these companies wake up this time, download the Preview version of Windows 10 (like every other hardware manufacturer has), and write/test their drivers BEFORE we need them. Not after.
 
Jeeze. Do I rant much or what?!

Interesting. What audio interface do you use?

twoifbysea
Yes, Sonar will in fact be 100% compatible the moment that Windows 10 is released, and you can quote me on that. I may be wrong but you may still quote me.

That was very funny. Very nice.  Thank you.

Is there any benefit to running windows 10 for us using the audio. Returning the start menu is nice and all but I will wait and see if there is more improvement before I upgrade.
 
Also there are the rumors that it it moving to a subscription license. The sites I just looked up have said otherwise but I will wait and see. 
 
 

Skyline_UK
Thinking about it, there could be some added value services here that operators of professional studios could offer
their clients, so differentiating them from the competition:
 
"Before you guys leave, I should bundle up; there's going to be a cold front moving in soon."
"Oh, and in case the copious amounts of Jack Daniels you just consumed in the session is still working, your car is the tan one over on the right just as you go out."

I think you win.. Love the idea ha.