Hey Dave
 
I am with you. I've said this before. Gibson WAS the BIG dog, the daddy in the house, the man, whatever. The buck stops with them....PERIOD. IMHO of course.

I just bought a new music computer. First thing I installed was Sonar. So simple just load the command center and have everything install cleanly. Blah ... what a kick in the teeth. Roland will not get much good publicity from this for sure. I will certainly express my opinion of Roland on all my music sites.
 
I am 70 years old and have had this software from when it was the first beta. I will use it until I can't keep it running. Maybe it will outlast me. However, I can see myself making another DAW selection ... most likely a DAW that is not in the software graveyard.
 
I am sorry for all of us, especially the younger folks who could have profited from an excellent program with exceptional programmers.
 
The least they could do is give us a download of everything we have now where we would not have to rely on an online site to recover from a software catastrophe. 
 
 

lludwick
I just bought a new music computer. First thing I installed was Sonar. So simple just load the command center and have everything install cleanly. Blah ... what a kick in the teeth. Roland will not get much good publicity from this for sure. I will certainly express my opinion of Roland on all my music sites.
 
I am 70 years old and have had this software from when it was the first beta. I will use it until I can't keep it running. Maybe it will outlast me. However, I can see myself making another DAW selection ... most likely a DAW that is not in the software graveyard.
 
I am sorry for all of us, especially the younger folks who could have profited from an excellent program with exceptional programmers.
 
The least they could do is give us a download of everything we have now where we would not have to rely on an online site to recover from a software catastrophe. 

Ehh - Roland??  I am sure you mean Gibson yes?

I blame Edison. Electrocuting Topsy led to all of this.

Good point, Steve.... OK, I am pissed at both of them especially Cakewalk for foisting the **** Lifetime Updates on us fully knowing that was their last desperation Hail Mary to make money. Oh, and BTW, today TASCAM updated their driver for the US16x08 audio interface for the new release of Windows 10 and now I'm getting an error in Cakewalk "WDM Sampling Rate mismatch" even though I only use ASIO mode. So now I can only deal with them. If the problem is something in Sonar, I could be screwed. 

Will i ever be able to buy the plugins im yet to own? I rely on cakewalk its too good thats there problem. Aslong as it works and i can set up on another system the world is not over.

Next thing you know they will discontinue the speakers i want before i buy them 👀

I wouldn't buy anything from Cakewalk or Gibson at this point. 
 
 

I bought a Les Paul just days before the announcement.  I would not have done so, had I known.

G1Records
Next thing you know they will discontinue the speakers i want before i buy them 👀

If you are think of KRKs, have you seen the ones designed for Behringer by Keith R. Klawitter?
 
I know that Behringer are not the most popular manufacturer but they seem to be trying to raise their game.