Hey Cactus, I haven't posted that much over the years but have read lots of your posts and they are some of the ones I've enjoyed!
 
I'll repeat what I said in another thread here; I agree with most of the comments in this thread which is why I'm not going away from this Forum or Sonar just yet!  I think some people are overreacting because while development has been ceased, no one has said that the company is dead just yet so we don't know what support is going to be offered or exactly what Cakewalk is doing going forward which could include bug-fixes for a period of time if something gets broken by an update.
 
I bought lifetime updates during the summer of last year so I'm a little pissed that I only got 15 months of updates but when I look how many there have been plus what new functionality has been added, together with all the free additions, I realise that at worst I've broken even so I'm not getting all screwed up about all this as long as if they pull the servers, we get delivered a lifetime key which will allow re-installation as and when required otherwise I will feel as though I've been mugged off!!!
 
Something I'd like to highlight here because some folks seem to have lost sight of is that before rolling updates we all used Sonar for months on end, 6 plus months actually before updates were released and because of an old project which I used v8.5 on, I was able to run this until a couple of years go before I started getting random crashes due to some run-time library issue so my plan is to stick with Sonar at least until Windows 7 goes EOL in Jan 2020 which is 2 years away!
 
At that point, as I may have to build a new studio PC, I'll reassess my requirements then but I'm not panic buying and jumping ship to another DAW just now thanks. :-)

Me declaro Fanboy de Cakewalk Sonar, lo seguiré usando hasta que ya no funcione, hasta que ya no sea compatible con las nuevas fuenciones, hasta que el standar midi sea cambiado por algo mejor (o peor)... Sonar de corazón... :)

All praise the Cakewalk Bunny.
All praise the Cakewalk Bunny.
All praise the Cakewalk Bunny.
 
I'll stay with SPlat until there is a compelling reason to switch. I started home recording with a dual cassette deck and then moved on to a Tascam Portastudio (4 track cassette) and then to a Korg D8 (8 track digital) and then moved over to PCs. 
 
When buying HW and getting lite versions of recording SW I normally tried them and I'd glance at reviews of DAW SW, but nothing compelled me to leave Sonar, although I do use Live to sketch out ideas. Looking around again and reading comments about other DAW SW on this forum I still don't feel compelled to leave SPlat. 
 
In a few years I'll probably replace my DAW and I may replace my DAW SW then. I've seen some real innovation in recording technology - tape to digital to home PC. Is something like that going to happen in the near future? Has there been any real innovation in DAW SW? Will there be any?
 
Does anyone else think that monthly updates has screwed with people? If Sonar was being released yearly would so many people (seemingly) need to switch so suddenly?
 
I, for one, don't feel like I've been screwed by Cakewalk. The price I paid for lifetime updates isn't any different than if I had been doing annual updates.
 
All praise the Cakewalk Bunny.
All praise the Cakewalk Bunny.
All praise the Cakewalk Bunny.
 

I'm staying with Splat as long as it will work, hopefully a long time! I bought Cubase for the chord track and for me, that's about all it's good for, at least for me, I found it to be very user unfriendly, so for as long as Cakewalk works, I'm not in the DAW market.      

I have the latest SPLAT installed on a new custom built machine with a modified Windows that will never update. As long as that machine will run I will stay on SONAR.
 
I am looking at Studio One as a backup-plan though.

Hello,
 
As long as Sonar works on my computer, I stay and keep having fun. I am a hobyist, and Sonar Platinium is user friendly, well integrated with Windows and i like to use Rapture Pro and the SI-instruments family. 
 
Thanks to RickJP909 for reminding that:
"... while development has been ceased, no one has said that the company is dead just yet so we don't know what support is going to be offered or exactly what Cakewalk is doing going forward which could include bug-fixes for a period of time if something gets broken by an update."
 
Hope that Cakewalk will soon officialy clarify what happens to Sonar (and all the related products) and how they will manage their customers during the next months (off line activation with/without lock to the computer/auth server).
 
Wait and see,
 
C.
(sorry for my bad english)
 

its a shame as cakewalk seems to be unlucky with whoever takes them over. I was once a loyal cakewalk man from the pro audio to sonar 7. then returned sonar artist . what put me off is the marketing. why should I buy a product then after the first year I have to pay again just for updates? upgrade yes update, not sure. sonar is definitely a different animal very powerful and loads of good workflow ideas. imo I found sonar resembled project 5 pretty much the same layout. that's where cakewalk shot themselves in the foot and ableton live ran with the idea and aint looked back. so I wasn't surprised they got outed by Gibson , I went to fl studio after sonar 7 and  life time updates couldn't be happier. I wish cakewalk and users the best, lets hope they sort things out.they have listen to users but looks like little to late  

I hope Microsoft buys Cakewalk and we'll be happy.

I'm still on Sonar.

Jarsve
I'm still on Sonar.

You fought off the change to Studio One for now, mate?