really sad news...Sonar was my first daw and was my main daw for many many years. I never really did forgive Roland for ditching them and I'll never forgive Gibson. My thoughts go out to the entire Cakewalk staff. Hope to hear from you in the future!!  

im on studio one now
 

Well, I bought the first Cakewalk for PC - Midi recording and editing only. 
I have been with Cakewalk ever since, so it is sad to see the company may disappear. 
 
I'm up to X3 at this point and it does almost everything I need, with the addition of a bunch of plugins of coarse.  The software is still fine, so I will probably continue to use X3 until new plugins, and other things, are no longer compatible. 
 
Hopefully the folks who brought us Cakewalk/Sonar, or at least some of them, will be bringing us a new DAW under a different name.

Soundwise
Can't believe this has happened. Not gonna buy any other DAW as long as Sonar keeps on working.

Sonar is not going to quit tomorrow, but it's probably time to export your projects to file formats that can be imported to other DAWs...

Thanks and best wishes employees. And their families.
 
Can some baker save the forum, and port it over to another host? 
 
The least they could do.
 
Now I'm going to freaking destroy my Gibson songbird guitar, and burn all my Phillip Phillips records.
 
Long live this forum!
-Tom

This is indeed sad news. I'm almost current with my install. I started to download the latest updates and the servers must be overloaded. Ha.
 
Cake is and has been a good investment for me. I certainly hope that is it picked up and improved.

I'm not sure I like the idea of Microsoft owning it. If that happens I suspect it will become a truly subscription based product and that would suck.
I wish all the employees that have just lost their jobs the very best and thanks for your hard work.
 

Dear Gibson Brands
 
I’ve been a Cakewalk customer since Pro Audio 4.5. and always stayed true even through the bad times (X1) and really enjoyed the good times. But… Hang on! Why am I bothering to tell you this when it’s perfectly obvious that you couldn’t care less. Just so you unequivocally know, you will never ever get a $ out of me again.
 
Yours UN-respectfully
BENT

Final thoughts...
 
Sad news indeed, best wishes to the Cakewalk team! Been a happy Cakewalk customer for almost 20 years!
 
I think I saw the writing on the wall with Craig's departure.  :-(
 
I really hope the Cakewalk devs can pull this thing outta the ditch!!! 
 
 

Well, heck.
 
Oddly enough, I got a PreSonus Faderport not long ago, and I downloaded a trial copy of Studio One recently as I was thinking about hardware/software compatibility.  Studio One installed and ran with no issues, it scanned all of my plugins and synths, including the Cakewalk vst's I had purchased separately like the CA2A, but soon after I started exploring Studio One I proclaimed, "I'm not going to switch to a different daw.  Sonar Platinum does everything I'll ever need and the software makes sense to me.  Plus, I've already paid for lifetime updates."
 
Studio One is 50% off right now.

First off I would like to say that how much this sucks. The folks at Cakewalk have done a fantastic job at providing amazing software, that allows musicians all over the world to create their music. I have been a Cakewalk supporter since I first bought Cakewalk pro audio 9, and I have used previous version and it has always been a great program. I purchased Sonar Platinum with lifetime updates over a year ago, I was a little hesitant to be honest at first because it was a large sum of money and I had to sacrifice some in order to obtain this program. I have been very happy with Sonar it is in my opinion the best DAW out there. I am extremely disappointed in Gibson by this action. To me I feel like they just took our money and is running away with it. I say this because in the world of DAW's Sonar is among the top in use. Why take away something that people are buying and are using. To be honest why Gibson is the owner of Cakewalk is beyond me, and if I am being completely transparent, I have never been owned any of the Gibson products since their inception, because I have always leaned towards Fender since I plat guitar. This action certainly is not winning me over. If this is how Gibson treats it's customers I certainly won't be buying any of their products in the future. What's that old saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."
 
I am no lawyer, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised if at some point Gibson faces some legal issues over their lifetime update policy from customers that paid for this service only for it to be taken away.
 
I can only hope that Gibson makes it right with customers and doesn't just kicked them to the curb.