Hello Cakewalk community. This is my first time writing on this forum. 
 
I currently have Sonar Platinum installed on my PC. When I run the program, it states the following: "SONAR is running in Demo Mode. Saving is disabled". 
 
I know that no updates are available since "the announcement" was made but can I still use my program, not in Demo Mode?
 
Cheers!

robcovets
I know that no updates are available since "the announcement" was made but can I still use my program, not in Demo Mode?

 
You'll want to contact the support team. That is one of the things they were kept on to correct. Everyone that was still making their subscription payments in November, or had completed payments prior, should be showing a status of "Owned" - you might also check in your 'Account' here on the cakewalk site to find "My Products" and see what it says there.
 

To be fair to Gibson, I'd assume that the Cakewalk products were either too expensive to develop or that the market just wasn't big enough (or both). It does seem odd though that no-one from Gibson has come here to expand upon their decision. AFAIK there's only been a horribly vague statement that the brand was dropped "to better align with the company’s acquisition strategy that is heavily focused on growth in the global consumer electronics audio business under the Philips brand."
 
IMHO that doesn't even come close to offering an explanation. If Cakewalk was becoming an uncomfortable fit for some reason, you'd assume they'd try to sell it (or at least sell the profitable bits). I wonder if they even tried?

CakeAlexSHere

pwalpwal
no one here knows what really happened regarding gibson etc - personally, i'll speculate that gibson were cakewalk's last chance, after they had already failed with roland and intergrated/branded hardware, with anderton joining around the same time - "if anyone can save it, anderton can" - but cakewalk still failed to adjust to the new digital marketplace/fwiw

Some people haven't seen the Reddit thread??
(Google "former employee cakewalk Reddit").
 
 
What the former employee is saying came as absolutely no surprise to me.
Happy New Year. THE END.

sure i read it, but it's only a part of the picture
and a happy new year alex! :-)

Will anyone anywhere ever put their faith in a subscription type system for purchasing/using/leasing/licensing software anymore? This could be a lesson to the other big boys out there that no one is immune from this sort of thing.

I BOUGHT CAKEWALK IN THE LATE 80 EARLY 90 AND I DONT KNOW ANOTHER DAWS TO USE. I HAVE BEEN AHEAD OF EVERYONE IN THE USE OF DAWS AND MIDI AS A RESULT. I WOULDNT MIND PAYING FOR THEM MY SELF TO KEEP THEM OPERATIONAL IF I HAD OTHERS TO JOIN ME. THEY SHOULD BE SOLD TO THE PEOPLE WHO USE THEM. NOT SOME UNDERCOVER APPLE COMPANY/GUITAR COMPANY. WHO AGREES OR WITH ME?

AMENRAMUXIK
I bought cakewalk in the late 80 early 90 and i dont know another daws to use. I have been ahead of everyone in the use of daws and midi as a result. I wouldnt mind paying for them my self to keep them operational if i had others to join me. They should be sold to the people who use them. Not some undercover apple company/guitar company. Who agrees or with me?
 

you're welcome

More Gibson news
 
http://www.musicradar.com/news/namm-2018-gibson-no-show-confirmed
 

Given Gibson's financial situation, the incessant use of "acquisition strategy" in press releases gives me the willies.

sharke

michael diemer

sharke

disdisley
 
 
The bottom line is that Sonar was nowhere near popular enough to justify the development cost. And that's not Gibson's fault. 

Who exactly are you suggesting fault resides with then?
 
Fully aware that it wasn't hugely popular in terms of sales.  As a brand under the umbrella, they were responsible for getting the marketing word out to show people it was in fact one of the best DAWs ever created.  
 
The problem was not the quality of the product, and there are enough consumers in the market place to have kept them in business (otherwise these lesser DAWs would be closing shop).