Hello from  Plan B - cakewalkcommunity.com. My site will live long after Gibson has wired the plug from Cakewalk servers. You can get to solve your SONAR problems at cakewalkcommunity.com - there are skilled professionals are willing to help other Cakewalkers.
 
World does not end if this forum was closed without warning; all the posts are stored in countless locations across the internet in search machines, internet history etc. I will also build a knowledge base for SONAR users: workflow tips, workarounds etc. User base is still strong and there are tens of thousands SONAR users that will not change to a new sequencer any time soon...

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Hello from  Plan B - cakewalkcommunity.com. My site will live long after Gibson has wired the plug from Cakewalk servers. You can get to solve your SONAR problems at cakewalkcommunity.com - there are skilled professionals are willing to help other Cakewalkers.
 
World does not end if this forum was closed without warning; all the posts are stored in countless locations across the internet in search machines, internet history etc. I will also build a knowledge base for SONAR users: workflow tips, workarounds etc. User base is still strong and there are tens of thousands SONAR users that will not change to a new sequencer any time soon...

Hey Panu, it's nice to have someone from Finland bonded to us all in Cakewalk. I"m glad we're all part of this global village and that you're dedicated to keeping this alive. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced I'm not going to use any other software just to bang my head against the wall only to find out I don't have some of the features I've gotten so attached to.
 
I've used Cakewalk products since 1992 and have developed countless tricks and tips and workarounds for the the quirks and bugs you find in any software, plus I have so many macros using Macro Express, plus tons of keyboard shortcuts. it would be maddening to jump ship.
 
When I heard about your forum after the Gibson announcement, I immediately signed up and know if something weird happens to this forum you'll contact all of your forum members to invite them in and help save the day.
 
I'm very interested in what you said about the posts being stored worldwide, I assume you're referring to the posts in this forum and other Cakewalk forums. Is that correct? And that you can build a database, so we can search posts similar to what we can do here? That sounds like a monumental task unless you have a way of retrieving that info with a program that can assemble large numbers of posts.
 
 Is this what you have in mind if it comes to that? Hopefully we'll all have a little warning before the plug is pulled and maybe some old Cakewalk employees will assist in the task. Thank you for what you're already doing, I know it gives some peace of mind to all of us users.

HI:)
 
I made a copy of it with HTTrack Website Copier, 7 Gig, nothing more....
 
Bassman.
 

Basseman
HI:)
 
I made a copy of it with HTTrack Website Copier, 7 Gig, nothing more....
 
Bassman.
 

Man this is good news. Did you only backup the forums? Did you try to backup the cakewalk.com website? If Cakewalk gets back in business they may appreciate the backup

HI:)
 
Only the forum, I like to have this knowledgebase to search for some things....
 
Bassman.
 

Basseman
HI:)
 
Only the forum, I like to have this knowledgebase to search for some things....
 
Bassman.
 

I had no idea such a thing existed. Are there any limitations or is it really just like browsing the "real thing"?

The wayback machine has a copy of this forum (for anonymous users only), but without any content and if this forum is deleted, there probably will not be a completely new version.
In addition, the wayback machine is slow and is itself in financial difficulties.
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043952/http://forum.cakewalk.com/

 
sorry -not possible for proper direct link there, go to wayback maschine https://web.archive.org/  and search for you self.
 

astaub
The wayback machine has a copy of this forum (for anonymous users only), but without any content and if this forum is deleted, there probably will not be a completely new version.
In addition, the wayback machine is slow and is itself in financial difficulties.
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043952/http://forum.cakewalk.com/

 
sorry -not possible for proper direct link there, go to wayback maschine https://web.archive.org/  and search for you self.
 

I tried your link above and it worked. It's looks just like the forum. I tried doing a search and it doesn't seem to work. I also tried to login and that didn't seem to work either. Do you think the search does work, but is really slow? Still this is really cool that this thing exists.
 
I’ve heard stories on the news where someone changed their website or twitter to conceal something and someone who knew how to use some kind of internet archives, maybe even the wayback machine, exposed their cover-up.

If all else fails, there's always the NSA. Although you may need the Russians to hack into it.

Like many things regarding Cakewalk's demise, there is some misunderstanding (and misinformation) about Cakewalk's servers.
 
Most online companies do not own their web servers - most businesses lease their servers from companies that specialize in offering web hosting services. Super companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple do own their own servers, and also a relatively small number of businesses of different sizes run their own servers, but by-and-large most everyone else leases web servers from web hosts. So, year after year, Cakewalk has leased and paid for hosting services, which means that the servers are located somewhere with many (usually hundreds of) other servers in a dedicated facility, with its own support techs. This means that Cakewalk servers will not eventually die due to lack of technical support. What will most likely happen is that sometime in the future Gibson will make a decision stop paying for Cakewalk's web services, at which point the servers will go offline. The database behind Cakewalk's servers will likely be saved somewhere, and if so the data from this forum will technically not be erased or deleted, but it will then be the decision of Cakewalk's owner as to what happens to that data and one possibility is that the data may never see the light of day, which is sad considering the amount of useful information here.