I've said before and I'll say again...TASCAM will not receive another dollar of mine for software!
 
I'll switch DAWs first or just continue to use what I have...PRE-TASCAM software.

*Pfft...*  Hollow threat.  They'll just wrap it up in becan and you'll completely forget about the crud in the middle.

What did Tascam do to you?  

Jan - Gigastudio.  I invested a lot of money in Gigastudio and Tascam ran it in the ground.  I had GS3 and a lot of 3rd party libraries.  I never did buy GS4 when it came out, but was planning to eventually.  GS4 was only on the shelves a couple of months when Tascam announced it was a dead product.
 
So in order to update my library, I had to invest in Komplete and port as much of GS over to Komplete as I could.  not everything transferred and some of the stuff that did still wasn't correct (i.e. keyswitching on a lot of instruments didn't work any more).
 
I could have just continued to use GS as is, but it had problems which needed to be fixed anyway, which I had hoped that GS4 would have solved.  part of the problem, however, was that the key gen needed to install it was flakey.  it required an answer / call to the server for installation and I was afraid that the support for that would eventually go away.
 
TASCAM had "acquired" GS from another company, can't remember the name right now.  they got rid of that company's management and most of the programmers then they designed GS2 & 3 themselves.  running the company into the ground by the time GS4 was released.
 
writing on the wall...

Hmm, So Tascam products ship with Cubase meaning Tascam has a relationship with Stienberg, and Yamaha. Roland and Cakewalks close competition one might say. 
So here's a thought, Buy your competition and kill it dead. 
So you see! you won't loose much of a market share. You just said yourself you'd switch to Cubase. 
I have Cubase LE`that came with my Tascam and I like it a lot. I don't use it only because it's the limited version and I have the full featured Sonar version. I guess they just made up my mind for me what my future upgrade path will be.
 
Glad to hear your doing lots of playing, I am too these days. Managed a good live recording of us on my TASCAM DR 40 ,, :)   Just had to say it .. 

Cactus Music
 
Glad to hear your doing lots of playing, I am too these days. Managed a good live recording of us on my TASCAM DR 40 ,, :)   Just had to say it .. 

I will not eat green eggs and ham, either...

What if you were joined by a fox?  What if they were served in a box?

What if it were just a hoax?

I do not like green eggs and ham.  I do not like them TASC-I-Am!
 
 
see what I did there?