This is very sad.
Good luck to all the employees - it would be awesome if some big name (cm'on Microsoft) bought the brand and rebooted it.
I am looking forward to seeing what happens next.
 
Thanks Cakewalk for the awesomeness

An incredibly sad piece of news..
 
I sincerely hope that the folks at CW land on their feet as particularly the last few years have done an amazing job.
 
good luck to you all
 
Ian

:(

chuckebaby

easyjoey
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I know the servers will keep running (for awhile) but I would love to have sonar platinum install files so I can install them later and not have to rely on the server.
 
Joe

Then download them from your account.
If you use Command center to install Sonar than they are already on your computer.

And I JUST last week deleted many of the older files in the Command Center folder on drive C; it was many gigabytes of old files.  I did keep the newest one of everything, though.

My thoughts go out to all the employees and their families. It must be hard given the time of year. Izotope are round those parts,  do you think they would fancy adopting a few orphans and perhaps an orphaned DAW? I hope at least the former if not the latter.

This is sad! A bunch of really talented, dedicated folks from development to marketing are all in serious trouble, I hope Gibson was decent enough to provide timelines and respectable severance, but I'm not confident.

This is not the first software tool I've lost, and it won't be the last. That's part and parcel of the software industry in general, and especially in our little neck of the woods.

Let's face it, the Music Biz is transforming, and it is moving away from what some of us remember as music production. You know,  catchy hooks, live players, that stuff.

As that happens the entire Musical Instrument market is taking a hit. But there is a second, more nefarious force at play - the retail landscape has changed forever thanks to the internet, and to a lesser degree big box stores. And we, the consumers share some of the blame - we want ever lower prices. The two big music retailers right now are swimming in debt, and that flows uphill, if SamAsh and GC can't pay the manufacturers then the manufacturers are in trouble too. There is a reason Gibson, Fender, Harman, etc haven't called in the debt!

In the greater scheme of things this is still significant. But the only people facing an oncoming train are the Cakewalk employees (although other Gibson divisions can't be far behind.)

I think we - the Cakewalk community - need to keep things in perspective. A little "woe is me" is ok, but let's not forget the folks who are taking a real hit.

I was hoping to upgrade from Sonar Pro to Sonar Platinum this Christmas with some Christmas money I am getting. I guess this means that I won't be able to do that now? 
 
 

Extremely sad news indeed, really feel for the bakers at this point, especially with the holidays coming up.

I'm in hope that 30 yrs of leading edge development won't be left to rot on the shelf. If Microsoft were truly after 'the creators' market then they need to acquire Cakewalk pronto and let the bakers get on with developing the best windows specific DAW out there.. It'd be pocket change to them, but would signal a commitment to the windows platform.

With their move to monthly updates, Cakewalk were powering ahead. Hopefully this will be just a blip.. hopefully!

If Gibson's refusing to keep the company alive then why not transfer all the old programs over to the public domain instead of making us pray that our validation codes will still work years later?
 
Some of us are so deeply mired in Cakewalk software and projects that transferring over to a new format is no easy feat!!!
 
The least you could do is release a few older versions without DRM issues so that we can still keep on using the software for years to come.
 
Gary ;)
 

Sounds like a great time to look deeper into Ableton.  Or FL Studio.