subtlearts
monleo2014
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So my guess is that Sonar …… combines/ merges with another big DAW 
! I even have an idea which DAW it is: …. Magix Samplitude.
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Hmm. This strikes me as remarkably unlikely. How would one go about 'merging' Sonar with Samplitude? They have completely different codebases. I think that would quite likely be a more difficult proposition, and certainly make less sense, than starting a whole new one from scratch.
Samplitude is a very fine product, from everything I've heard and read. And I don't think Magix is exactly on the ropes or anything - they just bought most of the Sony Creative Software fleet, including Sound Forge, Acid and the Vegas family. But I don't have the impression Gibson is looking to unload Sonar just yet, and it wouldn't make much sense for Magix to buy Cakewalk even if they were, so unless Gibson has secretly acquired Magix and isn't announcing it yet, I think this is a red herring.
That offer on Samplitude Suite would be tempting though! Not that I need to learn yet another DAW or anything.
The track record of maintenance of Samp is not to be envied. I bought ProX2 a year ago, and have not been able to use it with VST3 still - first it always crashed exiting if using VST3 in a project, then an update but a month last october Waves updated to 9.6 and VST3 scan crashes, and it still does after the april-2016 update of ProX2.
A couple of years ago I trialed ProX, and Waves Element made it crash every time. It took 16 months before that was fixed. And Magix was still in denial when I reported at the beginning of that period - but Waves confirmed it was a problem and eventually got Magix to fix it.
What Samp may give the world of daws would be some things in gui which are well thought out, some zooming options in fast buttons, some saved select ranges in a list which is useful, otherwise many strange choices by Magix - usually editing is based on selecting objects you are working on, but there are a number of toolbar buttons with various modes that tells what is affected by an edit instead. Very unintuitive in my world. So I went Cubase last fall not waiting for those folks to get around and fix it.
But Samp was probably the best importer of Reaper projects, in EDL format. Put everything in it's place, even midi clips. So I used it to convert Reaper projects to Cubase by exporting in OMF. Also some good sample rate converting algos you have to choose from.