kzmaier
anydmusic
rbrodbec
I just found out last night that Sonar went belly up, I was indeed shocked. I have been dorking around with Cakewalk products since the 80's I think and the DOS midi sequencer. I am still in mourning but just signed up for that half off Studio One deal, I like presonus products so hey why not I'm a recording neophyte, more obsessed with gear and software and building DAW's and such, it's a total hobby.
Time to let go, get some new toys. I want to thank the Cakewalk team, I thought you guys were awesome! Gibson can lick my dupa. Goodbye to the cakewalk forums, I usually lurked, picked up tidbits of wisdom, left the rest and went about my merry.
Good luck to you all!!! Hopefully the Cakewalk team will rise from the ashes somewhere, somehow!
Agree that big names are not necessary, looking around YouTube, with Cubase as the example, there are so many review, opinion and tutorial videos of various quality even some by people that I have heard of and what really stands out is that this is a popular active program. Even the Cubase bashers add to the perception that Cubase is alive and well.
In comparison Sonar seems invisible.
You guys are missing the point. They lacked marketing.
If I was doing it ... I would get big names and little names and no names and youtube the lot. Look how guitar effects pedal guys do it.
I think a lot more could have been done to get Sonar-using pros to make endorsements on their site. They don't have to be world famous, I'm thinking along the lines of people like Danny Danzi (I don't know if he would have ever agreed to it - just citing him as an example) - working professionals and artists with a good reputation. Jerry Gerber, people like that. There have been quite a few regulars on this forum who would have qualified.
Of course it would have been a lot harder to find household names in the audio world to endorse Sonar, mainly because you'd be hard pressed to find one. It's somewhat of a catch 22 situation. Hardly any big names use it because its user base is so small and "big names" are always going to be a fraction of a percentage of any user base, but a large part of why its user base is so small is because it's never had the "street cred" that other DAWs get from big names using them.