Cakewalks SONAR SPlat is not the only DAW I have or use ....So I'm just gonna resist the primal urge to Panic
I just hope the next time a software company decides to give me a Cactus Enema, they decide to use a lot of lube first .
 
Kenny

aidanodr
Interesting that no one has mentioned ABLETON yet :D
 

I tried that and totally do not get the program.  I think (and record) like a linear tape recorder.  The ableton stuff seems so far off the mark of a linear tape recorder that I find it impossible to understand myself.  

synkrotron
I'm not even going to look into alternate DAWs until Sonar totally fails to operate.
 
When that happens, I will be moving to Reaper which, in my opinion, is the closest to SONAR in terms of GUI and what have you.

Same - Love Sonar Platinum!!  Running it on a Win 7 out of the box O/S on an i7-970.  Have a great DAW, stable OS, great effects and instruments.  Sitting fat dumb and happy until my hardware give up...... then, I reload from scratch, and I. Am. Ready!

I know that SPlat Staff View has never been a "state of the art" notation facility but I have always used that and the PRV for inputting/composition as I'm a VST/MIDI user far more than a user of the recording/audio facilities.
 
Does anyone have any suggestions about which of the alternatives might be best for that type of usage ?   I'm wondering if this might be an opportunity to eventually find a DAW with better notation integration.
 
k

Just go to Studio One everyone

synkrotron
I'm not even going to look into alternate DAWs until Sonar totally fails to operate.
 
When that happens, I will be moving to Reaper which, in my opinion, is the closest to SONAR in terms of GUI and what have you.

 Acid Pro 7 still working for me.  Probably the same with Sonar.  People can still run Project 5.

bitflipper
You all seem to be working from the assumption that SONAR is going to stop working on Friday. It won't.

i am four weeks from pulling the trigger on a brand new PC for recording.
 
do i put a dead end DAW on it?
 
or buy the latest version of sonar and do what i've done for the last almost 10 years? (i use sonar 6 professional on a win xp system, and it works just fine.)
 

Agreed and also if anyone thinks Sonar is completely dead they need to calm down. X3 still works and you will all have a Platinum version that would work. All CW have to do is convert it to owned status then FREEZE a last known working OS If your concerned that Windows will break something. Sonar were doomed as a standalone operation without any high profit hardware to package. My feeling is that we will see a new DAW/hardware outfit rise out of the ashes. As for lifetime updates well I could see that was never going to work so I avoided it and stayed with my monthly subscription. Now all I have to do is make sure I'm running the latest version in Command Centre before the taps are turned off.

Not sure anyone is panicking here. There's nothing wrong with weighing your options and planning ahead.

I'm hearing a lot of "calm down" and "don't panic" but I'm not seeing anyone panicking. Maybe that's just me.

Well I am hoping to get a lot of years out of Sonar, even if there are no new updates. But there is always the risk that Windows updates or the need for new hardware, or authorization problems could break it at some point if there is no maintenance.
 
I am thinking I need a two fold strategy.

1. Ensure I keep WAV stems and MIDI files of my projects so they can be recreated in another DAW.
2. In the longer term identify another DAW and learn it, probably by buying the most basic version, so I am not confronted by a massive learning curve IF Sonar becomes unworkable.

I had tried both Reaper and Studio One in the past and liked neither of them, but I think Studio One has come on a lot since then (MIDI was terrible when I last tried it) so maybe its time to try the demo again.
 
I have heard Cubase has the best MIDI implementation so I will also be looking there.