Matron Landslide
Philips has been floating around the 'family' for a while now.

I've not had cause to closely watch Cakewalk's business before so didn't know myself. But if a large multinational is involved you can bet the bottom line is all that counts. Anything borderline in profitability is probably more valuable written off as a tax-loss to boost profits elsewhere. So while employees are made redundant, customers are shafted and a good product gets flushed, profits are increased elsewhere for one year. The usual short term gain nonsense from greedy people. Or just bad management from Gibson. Same effect in the end as far as Cakewalk and Cakewalk's customers are concerned.
 
Not a lot of people going to be signing up for that new cloud service I suspect.

Btw, is the actual last Sonar version any good? I didn't update for some time, and haven't been here, so i don't know. Is it good Last Version, or bad Last Version? 2017.10 right?

Adq
Btw, is the actual last Sonar version any good? I didn't update for some time, and haven't been here, so i don't know. Is it good Last Version, or bad Last Version? 2017.10 right?

Yep,
seems  that 2017.10 is the last update. 
For me it´s not stable - for most of the user it might running stable - 
don´t know.
 
regards
 

Thank you! What is the problem with it?

I have a dodge windows 10 laptop, just updated, and also just got final sonar update...I had some licensing issues with 3rd party plugins.....but after I re-registered etc...its all working fine.....which is why I'm also pissed off and shocked by all this....love you cakewalk crew!!!!....go die Gibson guy!!!!!

I completely agree with Mike. An unlocked version would be the best thing they could do for us.
 
However, Gibson is going to be hoarding every asset they own in order to squeeze out every last bit of value that remains, which includes CW's intellectual property. As long as there's any possibility of another company (or companies) buying the source code or parts of it, or trademarks, they're not going to release any of it into the public domain.
 
Of course, that won't stop some enterprising hacker from doing it anyway...
 
 

Interestingly Ron Kuper stuck his head in and offered to be involved in an open source effort to get Sonar or at least the code going. But again what are the chances.

mudgel
Interestingly Ron Kuper stuck his head in and offered to be involved in an open source effort to get Sonar or at least the code going. But again what are the chances.

really? where's this at? thx

Great suggestion! Post it in The Bakery! That's where everything gets implemented!

can anyone suggest a more stable version of sonar....like can I still uninstall and reinstall a previous version?.......I'm kinda not game to uninstall it just incase