As a new Sonar customer, only purchased and started learning the DAW within the past 4 months. I hope there's still access to Cake TV and other support like the forum community in the future. If there is any plans to start a new Hub or area online where newbies like me can still rack the brains of seasoned Sonar users, I'd love to be kept in the loop. 
Cheers  

i wonder if there'll ever be an official "follow up" announcement?

MMontgomery
As a new Sonar customer, only purchased and started learning the DAW within the past 4 months. I hope there's still access to Cake TV and other support like the forum community in the future. If there is any plans to start a new Hub or area online where newbies like me can still rack the brains of seasoned Sonar users, I'd love to be kept in the loop. 
Cheers  

I'm pretty sure most of what was CakeTV is on YouTube. Cancelling that won't save them money, so that may actually be around awhile. You probably should check that out though just in case.
 

Matron Landslide

eikelbijter
Helped my good friend set up Studio One today; he's used Sonar from around version 4, with X1 the last version he's been on. He got on the crossgrade deal mainly to explore the CD Mastering environment.
 
Anyway, let me just say: it made me happy to be using Sonar, although the mastering thing IS very convenient. I will have to look into it more, but I couldn't even set up 'friendly' names for audio ins/outs, which at my buddy's place with 40 audio in sources is very unpleasant. The GUI is very 'loud' if that makes sense; too much info..... will have to explore.....

Of course you can. Just because you don't know how to use something doesn't mean it can't do it. Don't confuse ignorance with fact. I been using Studio One since v3 came out, there is no way in hell I'd ever go back to SONAR even if it wasn't dead in the water.
 

Well sir, then why don't you tell me how to do it and help someone instead of being snide? BTW, I said "I couldn't" not "it can't be done"! But anyways, I just tried to find out but can't find any info on it, and I don't mean setting up templates and all of that, but actually giving friendly names to the ins and outs like Sonar so wonderfully supports so any NEW project or template you make allows you to choose from those names and not the standard one supplied by the hardware.
 
R

gunrunner15
I found a boxed retail version of Sonar Artist in a store and I would like to buy it.  Would I be able to still
activate it, re-install it when necessary, and use it for many years into the future?    

I wouldn't. 

It's scary that guys buy a company the size of Cakewalk a company that has over 30 years of life and just shut the doors rather than sell. I can't understand what these people want? Sell it and let the guys move on, they're destroying the studio structure of several people.
 
As for me, I would love Cubase but I found it too expensive for me. That end of Cakewalk broke me I spent a lot of money with plug-ins etc. This time I go to a DAW that is just growing and getting more and more customers and earning almost all and poll I see. I'll invest in FL Studio, simply because it's a DAW that runs on the outside, innovates, and has nothing to do with Sonar. The guys have the way to do things the way they do, and really liked the prices and the plug-ins they offer. I was able to associate quickly with the DAW and it is quite powerful, modern and always evolving in stride. But I will continue using my beloved Sonar Platinum, I have an album to finish and I will finish it and maybe a couple of tracks I will do already in FL. For those who do not know the Reaper is also great, easy and without headaches. Studio One I'm going to use it again let's see if I like it again, I don't know I'm going to invest money.
 
As far as that's concerned, this disgusting Gibson doesn't sell Cake to a real company! I haven't lost hope yet.

eikelbijter
Helped my good friend set up Studio One today; he's used Sonar from around version 4, with X1 the last version he's been on. He got on the crossgrade deal mainly to explore the CD Mastering environment.
 
Anyway, let me just say: it made me happy to be using Sonar, although the mastering thing IS very convenient. I will have to look into it more, but I couldn't even set up 'friendly' names for audio ins/outs, which at my buddy's place with 40 audio in sources is very unpleasant. The GUI is very 'loud' if that makes sense; too much info..... will have to explore.....

Eikelbijter,
I created a post in the Software forum which hopefully answers your question about setting up Studio One audio I/O.   See it here. 

With almost 1,000 recordings & 27 years on cakewalk I don't even know how to begin saving everything I've done to make it portable. I can only say that Gibson will never recover from this in my eyes.

Pretty Sad!  But after using Twelve Tone Systems' Cakewalk 2 back in the '80's (MIDI only) through Cakewalk Pro Audio and on to Sonar 8.5, I found it more and more cumbersome.  Mike Senior (Sound on Sound) suggested REAPER to me eight years ago and within a week I was zipping through tracking and mixing faster than Sonar ever worked for me.  The audio quality (64 bit internally) and flexibility (route any audio and/or MIDI from any track to any track, make up your own bus structure if you want, use any track for MIDI, audio or even both at the same time, control any plugin parameter with MIDI or audio from the same track or from another track, etc.) sold me very quickly.  Took me all of 15 minutes to create a "vocal rider" using REAPER's parameter modulation with an expander plugin.  


I still use a number of Cakewalk plugins - Dimension Pro, Rapture, Session Drummer 3, BeatScape, TL-64, TS-64, LP-64, Channel Tools, and even a few very old DXi FX like the Sonitus compressor, gate and EQ.  All work fine in REAPER.  As do the latest VST3 plugins, anything with side-chaining inputs, etc.   
 
I do wonder what will happen to TASCAM and KRK.  I have had excellent experience with both brands over the years, and still use a KRK sub in my studio.  At least there are many other good brands out there, so if Gibson wants to auger in, no wuckers!  Except if you thought you'd use Sonar for another twenty years!  

PVAudio
I do wonder what will happen to TASCAM and KRK.  I have had excellent experience with both brands over the years, and still use a KRK sub in my studio.  At least there are many other good brands out there, so if Gibson wants to auger in, no wuckers!  Except if you thought you'd use Sonar for another twenty years!  

You do have to wonder, since Gibson is proclaiming they are restructuring for "Consumer Electronics" and TASCAM is aimed more to ProSumer and Professionals.  Like Cakewalk was. And As KRK are.