I'm hoping that Cakewalk staff will at this point be floating ideas to build a new DAW from scratch. Isn't that how Studio One and Bitwig got started - developers on the teams of other DAW's going off on their own? I'm sure Noel & co. must have felt frustrated and restricted at times by Sonar's ancient legacy - building off of old code, hemmed in by the fact that you can make changes to a DAW but not drastic changes. Maybe this is a chance for them to build the DAW they always wanted Sonar to be but couldn't quite get there on top of legacy code.

I might add that I will donate $1000 to keep it going.  Anyone else?  How much can we raise here.  I will consider more $$.
 

Wst3 is right. The true victims are staff. Cakewalk has always had a great staff, akways willing to lend a hand. At the end of the day we all got what we paid for. I'm bummed i won't be upgrading, but even my older version will give me years of use

Wow, Happy thanksgiving, I am gratefull for the years of service cake walk has led the industry and now do we have to surrender to the dark force?\

 
 
 
Craig, can you go into the projects audio folder and load the track wav files into another DAW?  Kludgy I know but I think it can be done to salvage Cakewalk files/projects and migrate them to new systems.  I'm going to try that with Mixbus, since I've started using that recently.

sharke
With regards to everyone who paid for lifetime updates, is there any grounds for a class action lawsuit against Gibson? 

It may be possible but there is likely a loophole in the agreements.
 
Plus, as the old saying goes, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
 
Unfortunately, the lifetime updates may also serve as a poison pill deterring anyone wanting to purchase Cakewalk. sigh
 
P.S. Sorry and a heartfelt good luck to all the CW employees that are getting hosed by this development.

oh FFS, i love using this product too....**** you Gibson and your guitars are ****e now too 

Voda La Void
 
 
So...what do we do about 20+ years worth of songs recorded in Sonar that we would like to finish, revisit, rework, update and all that?  Do other DAW's read Cakewalk work files?  Bundle files?  

I can tell you that it's no problem to import sonar files into Reaper. I'm pretty sure it's possible with most, if not all DAWS.

michael diemer

Voda La Void
 
 
So...what do we do about 20+ years worth of songs recorded in Sonar that we would like to finish, revisit, rework, update and all that?  Do other DAW's read Cakewalk work files?  Bundle files?  

I can tell you that it's no problem to import sonar files into Reaper. I'm pretty sure it's possible with most, if not all DAWS.

Well of course your audio files are just wavs and you can import them into any audio program. The problem is when you have extremely large and complex projects which have dozens of synths, hundreds of effects and complex routing. There really is no alternative but to go through each project track by track, saving fx and synth presets and whatnot, making notes about routing and reconstructing the whole kit and kaboodle in the new DAW. Having reconstructed projects from scratch that got corrupted and went weird in Sonar, I can tell you it's an incredible time consuming task.

Well, Noel, Thanks for everything. You are indeed a prince of a man.