The code is a work for hire and is owned by whoever owns Cakewalk which, until further notice, remains Gibson.
 
I would hope that, for their sakes, Noel, Keith, and all do not try to write another DAW, as the DAW market is hyper-saturated anyway.
 
And take it from someone who was a Sonar fanatic (and drooling fanboy) for 7 years before moving on - moving to Studio One seemed unimaginable before I did it. Not moving seemed unimaginable after.

I checked Studio One and have sorted it out.
In my case its a NoGo that you cann't apply effects from the effect bin (insert effects) to selected audioclips. And you cann't sent audio to an external waveeditor.
So my next check is Cubase. But at the moment there is no trial for the very new version 9.5
Until I have found a perfect DAW I will download a crack for SONAR - if the servers for authorization are down.

sharke
 

 
Personally I hope Waves buys it. That's the only bloody chance I'll ever have of seeing a fix for my problem of Waves plugins losing their settings in Sonar. I'm currently working on a 80+ track, 20 minute project in which approximately half of the Waves EQ plugins I have on every track load with blank settings. I have to save presets for every track and load them each time I work on the project. 







Oh **** no, not them.   I'd rather it go under than be owned by Waves.

THambrecht
I checked Studio One and have sorted it out.
In my case its a NoGo that you cann't apply effects from the effect bin (insert effects) to selected audioclips. And you cann't sent audio to an external waveeditor.
So my next check is Cubase. But at the moment there is no trial for the very new version 9.5
Until I have found a perfect DAW I will download a crack for SONAR - if the servers for authorization are down.

As mentioned in the other thread
 

THambrecht
 
you cann't apply effects from the effect bin (insert effects) to selected audioclips.

Of course you can, look again
 

THambrecht
 
And you cann't sent audio to an external waveeditor like iZotope RX.


 

Users have simple workarounds for this (As a SONAR user you would be use to workarounds  ) Some just use a simple script. Go to the forums, seek and ye shall find.

Starise
 Sonar will eventually be sold and used again. It isn't over.

Yes, it is definitely over, that's why I was up until 3:30am reading blogs about Sonar alternatives :) (FYI I'm looking at Mixcraft and Studio One.)
 
From what I've been learning here and elsewhere, Gibson is known to buy companies and kill them, so that gives us an insight into Sonar's fate.
 
Even if another company were to buy Sonar it might take months or years of negotiation.  In the meantime all Cakewalk employees will have found other jobs.
 
Gibson leaving servers up for authentication purposes is also nonsense - if they can so callously kill a company I sure won't hold my breath that my software will be authenticated when I need to install it on a new computer in... a year? Two? Six months? I'm jumping this sinking ship ASAP and I've used Sonar exclusively for literally 25 years. I still have floppies!

AKG employees bought themselves  , why not bakers ? will help as many others around ...

Having lived in that code for 12 years, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it *can* be open sourced. Have you tried to download or build Webkit or AOSP? Cakewalk's code is tiny compared to those monsters!

I hope I don't see a fat lady singing today.

Thinking about it Microsoft is the only hope.   Who else would buy a product that ONLY runs on Windows when so many music producers are still tied to Macs?

I was offered platinum fully updated for $ 20.00 !.. whats that tell you ?