Time is of the essence. IME on such matters, the only assumption you can make is there will be -ZERO- support from Gibson. Any goodwill will be greatly appreciated of course, but pro-active alternatives beyond their budget axe makes a lot more sense under the circumstances.
 
A number of good points have been made by the smarter people on this forum. Capturing specific actions in dedicated stickies might help salvage something of the investment made in SONAR. Each topic to be ruthlessly kept ON TOPIC with the sole purpose of finding real answers. Ranting, whining, gloating won't help. Some admin support would be awesome.
 
FIRST !

1. Designate a Go To Forum

• A clear SINGLE point of FOCUS should be the first requirement for effective action.
• For obvious reasons, somewhere other than Gibson/Cakewalk servers would make sense.
• An existing forum might fit the bill (Isn't Harmony Central owned by Gibson...?)
• There have been a couple of offers to host a forum. Let's keep it active until one is up and running.
• Once a location is confirmed, make it a sticky on the existing SONAR forum and reinforce.
• Recruit/assign admins (hopefully including some participation from Cakewalk) to keep things on point.

 
NEXT! Stickies for key issues to be addressed.
 
2. SONAR Installation and Authorization

• FAQs for the continued use of existing purchases across hardware upgrades, etc.

3. Source Code disposition/support

• The key to any future support given issues with OS upgrades, etc. This is mere speculation without a decision maker from Cakewalk/Gibson, but could be used to capture any status, suggestions for potential maintenance/development resources (i.e. crowdfunding) or open source initiatives.

4. Alternate DAWs

• Inevitable, but recommendations from SONAR users would be the most helpful.
• With migration pointers, notes on VSTs (such as TH3, AD, etc. )

5. Other SONAR support related topics

• Typically user issues found on this forum

6. Other Cakewalk Products (i.e. Rapture, CA-2A, etc.)

• as required

 
Keep it simple will go a long ways towards a real result. Any better suggestions are more than welcome.

Presonus Studio One 3 Producer

KingsMix
 
Presonus Studio One 3 Producer

That would be 'Professional'

There are some awesome people on this forum.
 
"1. Designate a Go To Forum"
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Plan-B-Forum-for-the-Cakewalk-community-sonarmodscom-cakewalkcommunitycom-m3689301.aspx?tree=true
 
This sounds like a good choice for a couple of reasons. 

Matron Landslide

KingsMix
 
Presonus Studio One 3 Producer

That would be 'Professional'

Yes that is correct, guess that might be a little sonar early days left in the lingo.

Good points made above.
 
For me, personally, as I will more than likely drag it out to the bitter end, this is one of the most important points:-
 

jackson white
 
2. SONAR Installation and Authorization

• FAQs for the continued use of existing purchases across hardware upgrades, etc.

cheers
 
andy

 
2. SONAR Installation and Authorization

• FAQs for the continued use of existing purchases across hardware upgrades, etc.

 
SONAR needs to specifically address questions of how remaining updates can be obtained and if any bug fixes will be forthcoming and how users will obtain them. NOW!
 
 
3. Source Code disposition/support

• The key to any future support given issues with OS upgrades, etc. This is mere speculation without a decision maker from Cakewalk/Gibson, but could be used to capture any status, suggestions for potential maintenance/development resources (i.e. crowdfunding) or open source initiatives.

 
Would be awesome, please consider selling it to software company.  Not sure why Gibson would kill this in the industry before attempting to let it go.  But whatevs. 
 
4. Alternate DAW
 
We could go where the bakers go. Reaper, Presonus? 
HEY BAKERS go to our new forum and tell us what you recommend? Let us know where are you end up! where is Craig A voice in all this?
 
 

 

synkrotron
For me, personally, as I will more than likely drag it out to the bitter end, this is one of the most important points:-
 

jackson white
 2. SONAR Installation and Authorization

• FAQs for the continued use of existing purchases across hardware upgrades, etc.

With you on that one. I'd recommend signing up for the forum offered up by Panu, 
 
http://sonarmods.com./sonarmods/forum2017/
 
There's been a couple of posts regarding offline activation. Will try to make some time over the next few days to test and document a first pass at installing it on new hardware.