I just wanted reply #1000.
 
We will all know in a couple days

Add some basic video editing features please :-)

mettelus
I just wanted reply #1000.
 
We will all know in a couple days

well you didn't get it, you got 1001

The OP doesn't count for the reply #, but I actually wanted them both. 10 minutes earlier and I would have gotten them

Anderton

AllanH
Since we're all guessing: I think Cakewalk will consolidate Sonar Artist, Pro, and Platinum into one product.

 
SONAR Arprotinum?
 

We've already been told that the majority of the customers are Artist.

 
This rumor started because during a particular period of time, the majority of new users chose Artist. I don't believe the majority of all customers are on Artist, but someone from Cakewalk would be in a better position to know.

 
It would be really interesting to know the numbers or at least the percentages between versions. I'm platinum, my brother is professional. he upgraded from artist to pro because of melodyne and pro channel. My guess would be in the order of pl 10% pro 20% and artist 70%. As I say it would be interesting to know.

Ok... heres a far fetched one... Boston music companies motu and izotope are bought by Gibson..

Cheers!

Considering who Cakewalk were hiring last year, it's most likely something to do with HW, e.g. a controller for Sonar. And/or Mac support. That's my expectations at least.
If it's the HW, would be quite irritating cause it'll probably come with lifetime updates, which I jsut bought as a "loyal customer". So then if I decide to buy the HW, I'll be like, "dang, could've saved..." Unless they provide HW discounts of 100euro for lifetime owners.

I think:
1. It should be a Mac version to absorb more users and be more involve in market and business as a professional DAW which cakewalk deserve it because they are always beyond the other DAWs unless they want to be under Microsoft's umbrella like Logic for Mac. 
2. Introduce a brand new control surface or one of the famous controller in the market + a patch update for compatibility.
3. Fundamental update to make the sonar communicate with Protools and Mackie controllers. In this case you can improve your studio with a good-looking and professional HW.
 
I was happy like the others who bought the Roland vs700, and hope one day Roland expand it, but now disappointed because they discontinued the model after about 4 years being in market which is almost nothing for something like this . They even don't bother themselves to release windows 10 driver. 

SilkTone
Hoenerbr already mentioned online collaboration on page 2. Maybe it is some form of tightly integrated realtime collaboration. Imagine being able to invite other SONAR users to your session from within SONAR, and then the project gets synced between the two (SONAR uploads the full project, including all audio etc). The two will then play back in sync etc, and you can record on either/both.
 
Lots of technical challenges with that, including latency, both needing the same plugins, similar IO setups etc.
 
Maybe a more limited version, where one SONAR is the master, and you can add new audio and/or MIDI tracks on the slave that can be recorded to. The master would need to at least send pre-rendered versions of tracks to the slave to make sure the user on the slave can hear the full project (they need to be individual tracks to make sure mute/solo works correctly on both sides).
 
Kinda like Steinberg's VST Connect Pro, but built into SONAR.
 
Or something.
 

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REZA
I think:
2. Introduce a brand new control surface or one of the famous controller in the market + a patch update for compatibility.

I still think it's going to be with Nektar.
Someone who wrote to them recently about a problem received a reply to the effect that they couldn't fix that problem at the moment as they're too busy with new software.
 
Got to be integration with sonar. :)