My deepest sympathies E1......loosing a loved one certainly isn't easy, but glad to hear you're doing better. 
Welcome back and.......make the best music you possibly can.    

Gibson owns Cakewalk,
hence where gibson goes, possibly sonar goes?!
 
that was the gist of the back story.
 
sorry to hear about your son, RIP.
 
 

I appreciate the thoughts...Yeah, you can never really give up, because when you hit rock bottom, there's nothing else to do but fight on.  Thank you for the nice words.

I will do that.  Thanks for being nice.

I didn't know Cakewalk was owned by Gibson...I thought they were part of Roland or Steinberg....but it doesn't make much difference to me.  I've heard all kinds of raves about other programs, but I've been using Cakewalk for almost 25 years, and the only limitations I can see are borne by the computer itself.  And Windows.  
Thank you for the kind words :)