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I might as well use it to take one more opportunity to say DAMN YOU SONAR, DAMN YOU.....

CoteRotie
If you want to blame Gibson you can blame them for poor management, buying companies without a solid business plan to bring them to profitability, or possibly lack of ability to execute on whatever plan they did have.

Since you seem to be an expert, may I ask what business plan you propose for a rapidly changing environment where an increasing amount of DAW's on multiple platforms are given away for free, sponsored by ads or follows gear ? 

sharke
 
So let's review. First, my go-to was the Quadcurve EQ. I'd open projects to find it either flatlined or with random 16dB boosts in the same place on every instance in the project (also reported by others). So then I ditched it for the Waves Q10, a great EQ in my arsenal that I'd previously overlooked. Then Sonar started refusing to save its settings too. Replace it with a very expensive alternative only to find Sonar doing the same. 
 
 

That's really awful! If that happens repeatedly to you Sharke it's a good idea to move to something that doesn't do something so fundamentally WRONG

sharke
Well, do you know what REALLY boils my pish? 
 
After the NIGHTMARE of having to deal with the fact that Sonar frequently fails to save my Waves Q10 EQ settings with the project, I invested in Fabfilter's Pro-Q 2 on the basis that it would be the ideal replacement for my transparent/surgical EQ needs. 
 
Well g-g-g-g-guess what? SONAR IS FLATLINING ITS SETTINGS AS WELL. Yup, I'm opening projects to find Pro-Q's reset to the factory default instead of the tasty curves I'd spend hours perfecting the previous night. 
 
So let's review. First, my go-to was the Quadcurve EQ. I'd open projects to find it either flatlined or with random 16dB boosts in the same place on every instance in the project (also reported by others). So then I ditched it for the Waves Q10, a great EQ in my arsenal that I'd previously overlooked. Then Sonar started refusing to save its settings too. Replace it with a very expensive alternative only to find Sonar doing the same. 
 
Not that I feel like I wasted money on Pro-Q - it's an incredible plugin. I'll use it in my next DAW, which I'm presuming will include the revolutionary feature of actually being able to save my work properly. 
 
Sonar is a brick. 

Are you using VST3 versions? I had a problem like this with DMGAUDIO Equilibrium, a few years ago. That got fixed, but it wasn't all SONAR'S fault - it had to do with VST3 implementation.
Anyway - the VST2 version was fine.

Craig doesn't need to be defended. He can handle himself just fine. BTW Alex, don't let the vultures get you as you ride off into the sunset. Oh, wait, you are a vulture...

CakeAlexS
Anyway here now follows the usual messages of love to me from your fansbase as per usual right?? :)

 

michael diemer
Craig doesn't need to be defended. He can handle himself just fine. BTW Alex, don't let the vultures get you as you ride off into the sunset. Oh, wait, you are a vulture...

 
^ Bang on schedule!! :)
At least you aren't editing my quotes to make it look like something else as is the norm!
 

CakeAlexS
Observe none of these sort people will be interested in any topic discussion... Just Craig good.. everybody who disagrees bad...

BTW I like this forum very much, but it is poisoned by some mournful creatures who do not like Sonar at all. Why do they not just switch to another DAW and let us Sonar lovers be?

Alex, I and others agree with you. I never liked seeing Craig run people off the forum.

CUBASE!!!!!!! Is the NOW!!!
 
Why should people feel sorry for Cakewalk
They all took away £500 or $600 worth of our money and another £125 or $140 In lifetime updates.
Also we had to wait six months if you wanted tech help from them.Very slow.
Not forgetting all the add ons.
It Is daylight robbery and it is just the Luvvies who feel sorry for a bunch of highway robbers.
 
COME ON GIBSON whoever you are and gives us the exe files to all plugins with codes "WE HAVE PAID FOR THEM"!!!
I think it is scandalous that people have to go to the likes of the company that makes Breverb and pay all over again, telling them "now it is only half price"!!
Dont worry about Cakewalk staff as they will find jobs easily in the computer world that we live in.
I feel more sorry for the low paid nurses and hospital staff in our money grabbing world.
 
"They all think and know that we are all BILLY MUGGINS"!!!  "WE ARE""!!!

iRelevant

CoteRotie
If you want to blame Gibson you can blame them for poor management, buying companies without a solid business plan to bring them to profitability, or possibly lack of ability to execute on whatever plan they did have.

Since you seem to be an expert, may I ask what business plan you propose for a rapidly changing environment where an increasing amount of DAW's on multiple platforms are given away for free, sponsored by ads or follows gear ? 

How is it that I seem to be an expert?   
 
Are you implying that it's not possible to have a business plan "for a rapidly changing environment where an increasing amount of DAW's on multiple platforms are given away for free, sponsored by ads or follows gear ? "
 
So they had no plan? And just hoped that it would turn around and start making money?   (My plan at that point would have been not to buy them in the first place.)
 
Or they did have a plan and didn't execute?  Which is it? 
 
We know they are $500 million in debt, so taking on a money-losing company without a plan doesn't seem to me to be a great move.  Is there a third choice in the above reasoning that I missed, not being an expert?