use your cakewalk products until you cant any more for whatever reason, windows update breaks it,sonar  longer authorizing, vsts wont run, blah blah blah
 
then
 
 
get yourself another DAW and carry on
 
really ?
 
the drama is unbelievable!!Most of us are hobby types is this that important in your life?
 
IF you are really making a living recording and depending upon one daw then you should reconsider your business practices and work flow send stems, export as audio without fx, you know the drill..

I'm still using SONAR, but learning Reaper for the day when SONAR breaks; or when I know Reaper well enough to make it my main DAW.  No panic here, just planning for the future.  Business (I do make living this way) as usual in the meantime.

 
I see your point George, but I'm more of a mind to start learning another DAW (Studio One in my case) earlier rather than when it becomes a necessity.
 
 

"use your cakewalk products until you cant any more"
My plan exactly. I demoed them all (most?); bought Reaper.
Pulled an old Sonar 2 project into Reaper (it needed a key change and lots of midi work).
The only 'keeper' audio track was a harmonic part that I had to pitch shift down 7 semi tones (sounds crazy huh?)
The midi transfer went flawlessly (markers, tempo changes). Reaper handled the pitch shift perfectly.
I got 'into' the project, and the subtle (and not subtle) midi editing in Reaper made me crazy.
Pulled it back in SPlat, I'm polishing the turd (whoops), "master" as we speak (well as I write).
Can/will I become "comfortable" in Reaper; no doubt about it!
But today, no, I'm staying with SPlat to the bitter end...
 
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SteveStrummerUK
 
I see your point George, but I'm more of a mind to start learning another DAW (Studio One in my case) earlier rather than when it becomes a necessity.
 
 

I am also, Strummy. I have Presonus, and like it, I have downloaded a trial of PT11, I tried reaper and dont like it.
 
I agree , you are being pro active as most should here

good game plans here wish everybody upstairs would follow suite

I plan to.

Ya, that's my plan too... with SONAR and this forum.

And really I have a fully functioning rig (touch wood) that does everything I need for now. The only REAL reason the whole thing could tank is if my MOBO fails but I've heard in such events there is a mechanism whereby Microsoft will allow you to transfer your license to the new MOBO.
 
I don't see SATA drives or DDR3 RAM becoming scarce if that stuff fails. My Scarlett interface is rock solid but again replaceable.
 
I guess I'm hopeful that somehow Cake zombies themselves in one way or another but I'm not freaking out in the slightest about my own personal pursuits.
 
If this had happened a few years ago? Ya, then I would have been sooper pissed... because even basic stuff was borking out (dear X2... you sucked).
 
 
/pointless blather
 

Beepster
And really I have a fully functioning rig (touch wood) that does everything I need for now. The only REAL reason the whole thing could tank is if my MOBO fails but I've heard in such events there is a mechanism whereby Microsoft will allow you to transfer your license to the new MOBO.
 
I don't see SATA drives or DDR3 RAM becoming scarce if that stuff fails. My Scarlett interface is rock solid but again replaceable.
 
I guess I'm hopeful that somehow Cake zombies themselves in one way or another but I'm not freaking out in the slightest about my own personal pursuits.
 
If this had happened a few years ago? Ya, then I would have been sooper pissed... because even basic stuff was borking out (dear X2... you sucked).
 
 
/pointless blather
 

Basic stuff still borks out for me even though things improved a lot since X2. Like Sonar not even being able to retain plugin settings that I saved with a project, and automation lanes doing weird things (like going missing). I used to tolerate big ass bugs like this in the hope that they would be fixed eventually. Now that I know they're never getting fixed, I have no reason to defend Sonar to myself and thus moving on to a fresh new DAW without these problems is going to feel like heaven, when I get around to it that is....