Sad to see an Ole reliable Pal from 90s ( - esp in MIDI production )...sink into the icy sea.... But I realise I must move on.
For me ... REAPER is looking like the right candidate ,albeit still testing.

Kingsmix you are right cakewalk have said nothing that shows real loyalty. Everyone else had responded Cubase Studio overloud maybe others. Cake even if they are sacked could atleast come here and give us a run down of how they saw the demise.

cakewalk are restricted as to what they can unlock
 
also, when has any business ever shown "real loyalty" to customers?? business is business

pwalpwal
cakewalk are restricted as to what they can unlock
 

Certainly that could be true for any content that resulted from joint ventures, co-branding, or marketing alliances.  But we have already heard from Overloud on that, and they were the most prominent such partner.  And we have heard from Steinberg and Presonus and others.
 
But nothing from GIbson/Cakewalk?
 
Don't you think this is a significant enough issue that Gibson should communicate with its loyal customers?

cparmerlee

pwalpwal
cakewalk are restricted as to what they can unlock
 

Certainly that could be true for any content that resulted from joint ventures, co-branding, or marketing alliances.  But we have already heard from Overloud on that, and they were the most prominent such partner.  And we have heard from Steinberg and Presonus and others.
 
But nothing from GIbson/Cakewalk?
 
Don't you think this is a significant enough issue that Gibson should communicate with its loyal customers?

 
yes they should communicate, although i don't think they (businesses generally) use the word "loyal" in the same way the actual "loyal" customers do...

anything offered by gibson/cakewalk now will only slow the closure, and which dev will do the unlock coding? personally i'm not expecting anything that they're not legally obliged to do

dappa1
Kingsmix you are right cakewalk have said nothing that shows real loyalty. Everyone else had responded Cubase Studio overloud maybe others. Cake even if they are sacked could atleast come here and give us a run down of how they saw the demise.

I don't think there is a cakewalk to show loyalty to customer. There is likely a handful of transition guys to handle things and they are not in position to do anything except very specific tasks as needed.

While Overloud and AAS have kindly allowed to use what people can use now, and that can be just a nice gift (which cost them a bit of time to prepare, keeping there labels inside your new DAW, so make sense from marketing perspective as well),
all other (Steinberg, Magix, Presonus, etc.) are here to simply grab your money (except Presonus, they do not even have "special" prices for you...). So LOL to everyone who think they are responded driven by any other reason
 
Cakewalk has already declared that in case they stop servers, they will issue not expiring offline installer. That close the question about Sonar itself.
 
I think that CW should:
* unlock Adaptive Limiter. New plug-ins was a big part of "new features". It is clear that Drum Replacer and Vocalsync are Sonar specific. But this one is not. It was not declared as a "light version".
* return Z3TA2 to old authorization.  It was sold with one authorization but "updated" (just bug fixes) to another. Sorry to say, but that is BS.
 
I think that CW may:
* unlock Rapture Pro Session, if it is locked (the same reason as Adaptive Limiter).
 
The rest I guess was not locked or can not be unlocked, till original authors do this (as Overloud and AAS).

azslow3
Cakewalk has already declared that in case they stop servers, they will issue not expiring offline installer. That close the question about Sonar itself.

weeellllll not officially, only noel in a forum post? or as there been an official (from cake or gib) statement about this i missed?

pwalpwal

azslow3
Cakewalk has already declared that in case they stop servers, they will issue not expiring offline installer. That close the question about Sonar itself.

weeellllll not officially, only noel in a forum post? or as there been an official (from cake or gib) statement about this i missed?

So Noel’s not official then ?

pwalpwal

azslow3
Cakewalk has already declared that in case they stop servers, they will issue not expiring offline installer. That close the question about Sonar itself.

weeellllll not officially, only noel in a forum post? or as there been an official (from cake or gib) statement about this i missed?

https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2016000087/Gibson-Cakewalk-Announcement-FAQ
That is not on forum and Noel is the only person who can write official Cakewalk statements.
May be you want personal letter from Henry? I guess that will cost you more than you have paid for Sonar in total (I mean his salary per minute, to write the letter  )