dorism
It will be a brand new DAW built from the ground up.

mgh

bapu

mgh

e.Blue
I'm starting to feel like Mac support IS the only logical explanation for the drawn out announcement and the intro of lifetime upgrades. Think about it... Cakewalk is probably trying to lock in as many current SONAR users as possible. Once SONAR is available on OSX, it will be competing against Apple's Logic which only cost $200. This means that they will have to lower the price of SONAR significantly. Lowering the price that much would probably tick off many long-time SONAR users and essentially make the subscription-based model obsolete.

...JMHO

I'm not sure. For years Noel and Seth have said it would be too hard to port Sonar to Mac, the base code being so intrinsic to Windows.
My take is that the Sonar engine is going to be used in alternate products. Splat will stay the mainstay but there'll be a Live type product with the same audio engine but enhanced midi and warping then a product with video editing capacity and then maybe a notation product.
No doubt versions running on iOs and android.
Or an entire new cross code platform.
Whatever no company can sustain a lifetime membership model as someone else has said. So either Splat has limited life or there will be a change as I outlined above

See post #435. This is for SPLAT users only, not Artist and not Pro. And hover your mouse over the helpful icon to see who marked it as such.
 

Not sure what in my post you're referring to Ed?

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
We sent another batch of emails just now. If you don't get anything in the next hour, let us know.
 
Again, if you are renewed this year (meaning you've purchased an upgrade last year and a renewal thereafter, you'd get the email. 
 
Thanks,
Andrew

e.Blue
I'm starting to feel like Mac support IS the only logical explanation for the drawn out announcement and the intro of lifetime upgrades. Think about it... Cakewalk is probably trying to lock in as many current SONAR users as possible. Once SONAR is available on OSX, it will be competing against Apple's Logic which only cost $200. This means that they will have to lower the price of SONAR significantly. Lowering the price that much would probably tick off many long-time SONAR users and essentially make the subscription-based model obsolete.
 
...JMHO
 

bapu

mgh

bapu

mgh

e.Blue
I'm starting to feel like Mac support IS the only logical explanation for the drawn out announcement and the intro of lifetime upgrades. Think about it... Cakewalk is probably trying to lock in as many current SONAR users as possible. Once SONAR is available on OSX, it will be competing against Apple's Logic which only cost $200. This means that they will have to lower the price of SONAR significantly. Lowering the price that much would probably tick off many long-time SONAR users and essentially make the subscription-based model obsolete.

...JMHO

I'm not sure. For years Noel and Seth have said it would be too hard to port Sonar to Mac, the base code being so intrinsic to Windows.
My take is that the Sonar engine is going to be used in alternate products. Splat will stay the mainstay but there'll be a Live type product with the same audio engine but enhanced midi and warping then a product with video editing capacity and then maybe a notation product.
No doubt versions running on iOs and android.
Or an entire new cross code platform.
Whatever no company can sustain a lifetime membership model as someone else has said. So either Splat has limited life or there will be a change as I outlined above

See post #435. This is for SPLAT users only, not Artist and not Pro. And hover your mouse over the helpful icon to see who marked it as such.

Not sure what in my post you're referring to Ed?

Since Noel has said that bulk of SONAR users are Artist/Pro users offering this to SPlat users (only), IMO, can sustain a lifetime membership model.
 
JMO but SPlat is not the mainstay if the bulk of the users are Artist/Pro licenses.
 

mgh

Ok I should have said flagship then. Still is not viable I think. Even Reaper only do 2 versions

Hoenerbr
I didn't get an E-mail but the Cakewalk Shop let me do the Pay one Time for $149.00
I sure hope the big news isn't that there will only be six months of product life in Sonar Platinum! But don't worry as a lifetime Sonar user you are entitled to a special price on our new Cross Platform DAW!