Jimbo 88
One thing to keep in mind, and correct me if I am wrong...in the past when a new version was coming out or new updates where highly anticipated the Bakers would go silent and the forums would flood with, "whats going on? Where are the Bakers?"  What is happening now is very typical of how Cake has operated in the past.
 
These periods would be painfully long, but eventually the big event would get here.

Good point.

jb101

Jimbo 88
One thing to keep in mind, and correct me if I am wrong...in the past when a new version was coming out or new updates where highly anticipated the Bakers would go silent and the forums would flood with, "whats going on? Where are the Bakers?"  What is happening now is very typical of how Cake has operated in the past.
 
These periods would be painfully long, but eventually the big event would get here.

Good point.

+1

pwalpwali use that phrase at work about once a month!

 
+1, LOL!!!
 

pwalpwal i think that's all anyone is asking for?

Right!

Yes , I too would like to see a Mac version of SONAR .
 
Sound Vulcan Logic dictates that my best choice is to make a decision to choose not to hold Cakewalk responsible for meeting my expectations regarding the timeline of when a Mac version of SONAR is gonna happen .
 
                                                        
 
When my Logic is in doubt , I always try to remember what my mamma told me when I was just a little Vulcan in the crib
                            
 
Kenny
 
 
 
 
 

LJB
It does make for fairly bad PR - I told several of my clients to expect a Mac version of some kind soon, which is what was advertised when the lifetime membership was promoted. 

So you told users of a Mac version when all CW said was they would have an Alpha version? Were you expecting clients to use an Alpha version?
 
 

mettelus
It may be as simple as they got the alpha to display "Hello World" on the screen.

So it's almost done then. Well played.

Designing, creating and testing software, like any other job, can sometimes take longer, even much longer, than expected.

I don't have an inside line to Cakewalk of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Sonar4Mac project is taking quite a bit longer than originally expected.

Cakewalk's main product is Sonar for Windows, and it seems Windows updates frequently cause problems. Which means Cakewalk has to develop, test and release patches as quickly as possible and presumably have little or no more warning that a Windows update is going to break something than we do. And the sort of problems that are turning up aren't the kind of thing that could wait a few months before a fix was issued as was often the case on the "old" patch/update system. Which means the developer's plans might get unpredictably overturned at a moment's notice.

That may or may not account for some or all of the delay.

Secondly, there are "alphas" and "alphas". A Mac Sonar that was released as a barely functioning, very buggy and limited version, which much alpha software is, might be a disaster for Cakewalk in the Mac market. If it's free lots of people may download it who are unfamiliar with Sonar and regard a pretty basic early alpha as so bad or under specified they decide Sonar's useless and rubbish then rush off to forums to tell the world all about how bad it is.

I'm guessing that the idea of a free alpha release is in part to draw attention to Sonar and in part to get it installed on as many Macs as possible so any bugs are spotted as rapidly as possible. So Sonar has to work reasonably well on Macs from the day of release while bugs will need fixing quickly if product momentum is going to be maintained.

And the Mac market is awash with DAWs from Apples free Garageband and pretty cheap Logic Pro, which is a powerful, respectable and capable DAW that has a large number of users. Then there's all the other DAWs, all of which except Sonar have been Mac compatible for a while and in some cases for many years. So Cakewalk have to get it right technically and proce Sonar correctly if they want to make headway.

Mac Sonar will happen or it won't. If it doesn't I expect there'll be good reasons why even if they're not shared publicly.

Jimbo 88
I am dying for the MAC version... Due to the downsizing of the music industry I've had to start recording Voice Overs at Video Houses for extra income. I'd give anything to be able to use Sonar instead of "SlowTools".  

Why can't you record voice overs in SONAR (on a PC laptop)?
 

bapu

Jimbo 88
I am dying for the MAC version... Due to the downsizing of the music industry I've had to start recording Voice Overs at Video Houses for extra income. I'd give anything to be able to use Sonar instead of "SlowTools".  

Why can't you record voice overs in SONAR (on a PC laptop)?
 

Buit that´s easy :
1.think of the price of a mac you record with,
2. you probaly will cry  high 
That´s the best precondition to get a nice high cry voice for a voice-over.
The quality of a mac high cry you cannot get with a win based pc.
 

This looks like a perfect SNEAK PEEK for NAMM?  Does CW have a booth?

I was at NAMM last year and Cake was "stationed" in the Gibson room as were all the other Gibson brands. Not very noticeable to the passerby individuals. 
 

It certainly is nice to know that Mr. Anderton is working for Cakewalk during his spare time of evenings and weekends.  Maybe someone from Cakewalk that devotes most of their working time developing Sonar could help inform us.  After all, if I devote most of my time to making music, do I want to play with someone who devotes 10-15% of their time?
 

jackn2mpu

BASSIC Productions
It certainly is nice to know that Mr. Anderton is working for Cakewalk during his spare time of evenings and weekends.  Maybe someone from Cakewalk that devotes most of their working time developing Sonar could help inform us.  After all, if I devote most of my time to making music, do I want to play with someone who devotes 10-15% of their time?
 

Craig's turned into the corporate man from the cool dude he used to be back in the day with all the neat electronic projects in the magazines; he doesn't much care about the common man/end user anymore.

This is pure nonsense. You clearly have not been at this forum for last four years.