I am thinking if mass migration exodus from Sonar to other DAWs is kind of kiss of death which could make unwanted by us scenario final...
 
As one of Bakers wrote nothing written in stone yet. But if a miracle happened and somebody took over Sonar to keep it alive would be still possible to reverse that exodus?
 
Anyway what kind of business is doing Gibson? Looking without any interest how huge user database is decreasing rapidly. Kind of unusual these days when user database related to specific topic is worth by itself...

Uh, no.  SONAR was killed by Gibson and, evidently, poor upper management at Cakewalk.
 
In any event, everyone has been at a post-funeral wake for several days now but doesn't seem to realize it.

My tears fell like rain.

Mass Exodus or not Gibson Killed SONAR I didn't
Why should I feel guilty for having to find other options for my Personal Music Creation ...
I already paid up for a Lifetime membership and now all I have is The Splat Life Support Edition ...
 
Do you feel guilty if your car breaks down and then you decide to pick up something else to drive instead ?
 
Sure my copy of SPlat is working and may work fine for years to come ...
the thing is ,
I don't keep all my eggs in one basket ...it is too easy for the fox to raid the hen house
 
Kenny

there's no question that many are jumping ship prematurely.  However, if people start using another DAW and then Sonar comes back, they will still own Sonar.  The chances are, they'll still use it.  Some may love their new DAW and never return, but I don't think that number will be significant.  
The grass only LOOKS greener on the other side.
 
 

Oh no no child, it wasn't me.

It was me, upstairs, with Linux.

Count me out of the "We" - I haven't gone anywhere.
 
I do think that the alternative forums have pretty much finished this one off though, not that it wasn't pretty much dying on it's arse anyway, but totally understand why they were set up by their respective peeps.

You don't wait until The Titanic sinks before you try to find a life boat to get on to , do you ?
 
The whole time I have been using SONAR I have also been using other brand DAW's ..in PC and Mac ..
 
In conjunction with using SONAR , for years I have used , Logic , Samplitude , Mixbus, Acid Pro , Traction , and for a lot  less time Reaper .
Those are only a few DAWs  I choose to mention here . This list does not even include the new DAW's I recently bought    Studio One 3 anyone ?
 
The Grass is greener has absolutely nothing to do with it in my case at all ....
It has been an observation of mine where I notice that some Cakewalk users can be somewhat arrogant , they even think that Cakewalk invented half the stuff they like to use ...
I got news for you , when you own and use at least if not more than half of the top 20 DAW's that some people agree as to being very good ...
You will notice that all The DAW 's Companies out there have stolen features from each other and have implemented them as new features in their brand DAW 
 
Kenny

Sonar isnt dead. Just sleeping. Waiting for the prince to come.