azslow3
30 years.... too young to die 
I wish CW employers all the best and to find good place for the next 30 years
 
For users... I wish a free from on-line authorization Sonar version (X3 like) can be released. CW was selling "Lifetime" license, and sorry to say, but most have understood is as a personal lifetime and not as CW lifetime (which happened to be rather short).

Yeah I was expecting more out of my lifetime subscription.  
 
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Thanks folks, sincerely we are as sad about this as you are. As mentioned in the announcement please rest assured that your software will continue to work and the servers are still active. This is very new so we'll publish a FAQ as we gather more information. 

For a while. We all know that in other similar cases, services gradually fade away until they disappear completely after some time.
It is sad to know that only a few heads can decide the fate of thousands.
But life is just the same ... I just have to thank Cakewalk for the decades I've been faithful to them ...

Are you Fn kidding me?

TheMaartian
I really hope there's life after death for this forum.

+1
 
I would really miss this place... We'd have to set up an independent forum if this one goes down...

i really hope that we will be able to download all of our licensed products

I love this forum and would be willing to kick in some money to keep it going.

azslow3

synkrotron
I guess as an absolute minimum that we should keep the last lot of installers in the CCC folder...

Useless... with current authorization schema.

Oh... I'll take your word for it... So we need to hear of some kind of "end of life" solution for SONAR then, in the coming months.

chuckebaby
I love this forum and would be willing to kick in some money to keep it going.

ditto

synkrotron

chuckebaby
I love this forum and would be willing to kick in some money to keep it going.

ditto

 
Me too. 

Wow..

Been using this DAW since Cakewalk 3.4 on one 1/4" stiffy, circa 1994-ish.

I'm a little shocked right now - being a professional engineer who runs my studio totally on Sonar for projects this now forces me to look at other DAWs, learning curves, decisions about how to transition to another DAW, never mind all the Sonar specific plugs that I know like the back of my hand.... wow... much to contemplate.
Is this a classic case of the Big Corporation agenda won out over the free-thinking smaller guy, I wonder?

Either way, the Bakers have made something special over the years - I thank you guys sincerely.