Hi, read the posting this may be a good thing.  Not sure but thought I'd share this if you didn't see it yet.
 
 
Official customer support statement

Veets
Hi, read the posting this may be a good thing.  Not sure but thought I'd share this if you didn't see it yet. 

Official customer support statement

It’s a partial copy of something that was already announced 10 days ago. The fact it hasn’t been updated since then doesn’t give much hope.

chris.r
Help needed!
 
I didn't download three positions from my command center previously (to save disk space):
 
- Loopmasters Content Collection  (latest version 2.0.0.2)
- Sample Magic Content Collection  (latest version 1.0.0.8)
- X-MiX Content Collection  (latest version 1.0.0.8)
 
they show in the left side menu in my SONAR Platinum submenu but they're not possible to download (install) anymore!
 
Anybody care to support me with your downloaded installation files, pleeeaase?? You can find it in your command center Settings > Paths folder. Please PM me for my email. If the files are huge you can send via wetransfer com. Looking forward to hear from a good soul.
 
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Honestly, not even worth it IMO

So much for lifetime subscriptions.  How is it a company already in deep debt buys Cakewalk and then orchestrates a huge money grab with too good to be true "Lifetime updates".  Software programming takes man hours and man hours cost money.  No company in it's right mind would charge a one time fee for something that has on going expenditures as a long term profit plan. 
 
I Guarantee there was a meeting where the Cakewalk higher ups sat with the Gibson bean counters and discussed:
 
..."How many users regularly buy annual updates?...What percentage of them and the non frequent upgrading users do you think would pay for a "onetime paid Lifetime update scheme?"  How much revenue could we generate with this event and to you corporate lawyers over there in the corner, how long would we have to deliver the monthly updates before folding the company without risk of being sued for this fraud we are about to perpetrate?"
 
I new this was a money grab when it happened and said so.  I new this was coming and so did the high up Cakewalk executives.  We have all been scammed by this organization.  I will never again buy another Gibson product as long as I live and I will likewise boycott any company where the Cakewalk executives land.  All that remains now is to pick a new DAW.  Those of you who think the servers will remain on line for long should think again.

bnwitt... I (k)new this was a money grab when it happened and said so. I (k)new this was coming
 ... Those of you who think the servers will remain on line for long should think again.

The prophet has spoken?

jyoung60

bnwitt... I (k)new this was a money grab when it happened and said so. I (k)new this was coming
 ... Those of you who think the servers will remain on line for long should think again.

The prophet has spoken?

Check my posts and you'll see I predicted this.  I worked as an executive in the corporate world for almost 20 years and I've been in the meetings where these dastardly plans were hatched by the bean counters against the objections of those of us with morals and ethics.  That is why I left the corporate world.  It doesn't take a prophet to step in horse crap and tell everyone it's horse crap.  Once one has seen this kind of human behavior it's not hard to recognize it in the future.
And you know what else, these big corporations always do this right before Christmas.  Merry Christmas furloughed staff.
The only consolation is that these heathens pulling this stunt who think they're saving their own jobs will be in the soup line eventually themselves soon.

I'm may be reaching here, but assuming Cakewalk and/or its products are unable to be sold and there is no use for the technology behind Sonar in other areas, is there any chance that Sonar could be made open source?
 
I wouldn't mind seeing what the community could do by making a fork or two of the code...

Maybe some of these things needs to be posted on Gibson forums?

Audman71
I'm may be reaching here, but assuming Cakewalk and/or its products are unable to be sold and there is no use for the technology behind Sonar in other areas, is there any chance that Sonar could be made open source?
 
I wouldn't mind seeing what the community could do by making a fork or two of the code...

The problem here is:
 
a). Software patents. They can be worth a lot of money, so it's not likely Gibson is that giving away for free. If Gibson can license some of the techniques used in Sonar, they can generate a (small or big) steady income, so it would be counterproductive to give that away.
 
b). Licensed closed software "blobs" in the main code, that cannot be open sourced because they are not property of Cakewalk/Gibson. And without those parts an "open" version of Sonar could very well be completely unusable.
 
As much I would like to see an open sourced version of Sonar (especially since I mainly use Linux, and porting Sonar would be great), I do not see that happening.
 
The same goes for a "resurrection" of Sonar as commercial DAW. Now it has lost most of it's user base (let's not fool ourselves here), and the developers are probably already very busy finding a new job (or maybe are already hired), I think chances of a "restart" are very slim. Especially if you take into account that Gibson probably already tried to sell Sonar, and obviously without success. Maybe parts of Sonar will pop up here and there (see part a. above), but I guess it's really the end of the line for Sonar as DAW.
 
Keep in mind that this is only a personal opinion, and maybe I am wrong. But that's how I see it at this moment.

every day more without sonar support you has right more. After 3 Months or so on, sonar go over event horizont