I signed! Fingers crossed.

Zargg

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i signed...

So did I

I did too and now my bank account is drained.
 
Fair warning, it may have been the purchases I recently made and not the signing of the petition.

Signed!
I downloaded Presonus DAW. Its a joke. Compared to Sonar.
I tried it for 30 minutes. Went frustrated and uninstalled it.
It just isnt Sonar. Sonar are so much smoother to work with.
Everything just works in Sonar.

Funkfingers
Signed!
I downloaded Presonus DAW. Its a joke. Compared to Sonar.
I tried it for 30 minutes. Went frustrated and uninstalled it.
It just isnt Sonar. Sonar are so much smoother to work with.
Everything just works in Sonar.

 
Gee a whole 30 minutes well no one can say you didn't give it your best shot lol
 
No it's not SONAR, and thank GOD for that

YA FIRME.... LONG LIVE SONAR¡¡¡¡ 
 

Zargg
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/microsoft-please-rescue-cakewalk-and-sonar-out-of

Signed!

If enough people are interested we could form a cooperative and do a customer buy out, similar to "management buy out". Then we would become straight out owners of our own tool. Just a thought. 

As much as I love Sonar, I think the writing is on the wall. It is a very romantic idea to think that users of a product can save a company or that a corporate knight in shining armour will come to the rescue. Business is business. Money is money. If a subsidiary of a company continually runs at a loss, it gets cut adrift (Roland - Gibson). That's a simple reality.
 
I don't think either a user or corporate buyout is likely or would be to the long term advantage of the Sonar user base.  
 
I have sadly and regrettably packed up my Sonar swag and have taken on Studio One. It is not Sonar, granted, but it is still growing and, more importantly, is still supported. 

I've narrowed down my alternate choices (for a backup DAW) to Studio One 3 and Reaper.
Studio One is solid, easy to setup and use, but I don't care much for the GUI (graphical user interface)
And Reaper, while it's got a much steeper learning curve, and has crashed a couple of times using my plugins, has the BEST GUI I've ever seen.  Actually not the factory GUI, but the theme sets available for it  
I always wanted Sonar to have an interface that looks like an old-school mixing board with backlit "cube style" buttons and lots of simulated LED lights.  (And yes I know it's what the DAW can do, and not so much what it looks like, but still....)





This is one of the more popular user-created themes, and one of my favorites.  There are tons more, with a big variety of styles and colors.  But in the end I keep going back to Sonar Platinum for doing any "real" work.

Funkfingers
Signed!
I downloaded Presonus DAW. Its a joke. Compared to Sonar.
I tried it for 30 minutes. Went frustrated and uninstalled it.
It just isnt Sonar. Sonar are so much smoother to work with.
Everything just works in Sonar.

If you use A DAW that isn't Sonar like Sonar you're likely to be disappointed. If you learn to use it as it was designed to be used you might have more joy. I suggest 30 minutes isn't enough to learn a new DAW from the ground up.
But of course if you can't be bothered.........