As I stated earlier, I love Sonar and have no desire to go elsewhere. In fact, for me, the only other DAW I would even consider would be Studio One, because it seems to be pretty similar to Sonar. It's always Cakewalks "parent companies" that flakes out. I wish they could be independent and not have to depend on a "parent company".
 

rodreb
As I stated earlier, I love Sonar and have no desire to go elsewhere. In fact, for me, the only other DAW I would even consider would be Studio One, because it seems to be pretty similar to Sonar. It's always Cakewalks "parent companies" that flakes out. I wish they could be independent and not have to depend on a "parent company".
 

They're music nerds.  They have to live in their parent's basement. 

jamesg1213
If you transported the Taylor Swift fans back 30 years, they wouldn't be listening to EVH, they'd be into Madonna, Janet Jackson, or Kylie Minogue.
 
I've seen this kind of thing mooted here before..''We had led Zeppelin, they have Justin Bieber'..yeah, but we had Donny & Marie Osmond and David Cassidy too..
 
I don't buy this 'kids don't want to learn an instrument' thing either. From what I see on YouTube, there are thousands of young kids playing guitar, and many of them seem to want to tackle some of the most complex rock music too, loads of Dream Theater covers for example.
 
On Wednesday I helped a 20 year old lad set up his new Alesis Nitro kit. His heroes are Art Blakey and Buddy Rich.

Where is guitar driven music on the radio today ?
There is a serious decline in guitar sales and that's a fact. you don't have to buy it but its not speculation.
 
I cant think of one band out today that is grabbing the attention of millions of people that is guitar driven.
It could also be im just getting old and music has changed so much I've lost touch.
But it appears even Rock music that thrived on guitar driven hooks is dead and buried.
 

chuckebaby
 
I cant think of one band out today that is grabbing the attention of millions of people that is guitar driven.
 

Well, for a start there's...
 
Foo Fighters
Muse 
The Black Keys
Kings of Leon
Arcade Fire
 
..off the top of my head. What radio stations do you listen to? 
 
 

jamesg1213

chuckebaby
 
I cant think of one band out today that is grabbing the attention of millions of people that is guitar driven.
 

Well, for a start there's...
 
Foo Fighters
Muse 
The Black Keys
Kings of Leon
Arcade Fire
 
..off the top of my head. What radio stations do you listen to? 
 
 

Top 40, why? 
 
(I keed!  I keed!  Ok, I'll let him answer. )

I also think the price of guitars nowadays plays into this also. Have you priced a new, decent Les Paul, Strat, SG, Tele, 335? Oh, and amps, too! Young kids just starting out can't afford this stuff.

But they can buy a much better low-end priced guitar now than I could 40 years ago. A Squier Strat or Tele is a 1/5 the price of the real thing but it's perfectly fine to start off with. Try getting a decent sound out of a Columbus Les Paul copy...

Don't panic. It's called trend. Guitars will be around for a long time and so will Gibson. Violins have been around for a very long time and there are probably more bought now than in the 1700s! Cakewalk has had different owners and Sonar was released under the Roland brand. Gibson currently own Cakewalk and will most probably sell it onto another company some time. They will probably honor our lifetime updates. Cakewalk is Cakewalk whoever owns it. The managers and developers are the same people who ever owns the brand.

Forgive me for asking this, but didn't wring our hands and hang our heads about this 2 or 3 months ago? Is there a new wrinkle here? Gibson hasn't said anything about selling Cakewalk off, right?
 
                                                                 

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do there job as perfect as in the last one and a half year.