Have a look downstairs in the Coffee House, I don't think anything from there is included in searches, and for good reason

Could you enlighten me; "What if i want to tranfer all of my work to another PC after all cake servers go to down?"
What am i goin to do? I bought Sonar Platinum by using Steam and i got lifetime pass. Also i have got sonar Steam Edition key?
 
I am waitin reponse from Gibson Guys if you are here.

From the FAQ webpage after Gibson acquired Cakewalk..
 
Will SONAR continue to be developed?
Of course! As a market and technology leader with many industry firsts, SONAR will be the flagship product of TASCAM Professional Software. The program will continue to innovate in exciting, unique, and even surprising ways. Who will handle technical support and questions about the program? Cakewalk will continue to handle customer support and questions.
 
say no more..

Greg Hendershott, if you're out there, here's a chance to save what was once yours. Please!

To be honest I'm kinda heartened by the amount of empathic reactions here. I also feel very sad for all the folks at CW, I've met and worked with Jim Landry personally and I know he's a stand up guy working his ass off for this company, I'm sure the same goes for everyone else.
 
But mostly I'm livid at Gibson. This has to have been part of their plan all along. Either that or the top level management is nefariously whimsical. To switch to the monthly membership deal, get many people to pay another 200 bucks for a "special lifetime deal" and then pull the plug less than two years later (if my math is correct) is just a complete FU to the consumer (in many cases working pros who depend on the product).
 
I hope the folks at CW all get nice jobs in the industry, honestly I don't suppose many feel very enthused about staying with Gibson.

Sanderxpander
 
But mostly I'm livid at Gibson. This has to have been part of their plan all along.

"Plan" is not a word I've associated with Gibson for quite some time now.

As a Cakewalk user since the Twelve Tone days I am really disappointed with this. Having read all of this thread I think it would be a good idea for the Bakers to issue a .dat file to all registered users which would allow re-installations when the servers die. That's what you get if you register off-line, so surely there must be a way to produce a generic file. 

https://www.facebook.com/greg.hendershott 

Unbelievable... 
Been using this since the days of DOS Cakewalk, then synced with Samplitude, then took a break and discovered Sonar 2.0. Why do this guys? I just "subscribed" like 6 months ago after running 8.5 forever.
Unbelievable...
Look at what you are shutting down, 30yrs of freaking development, tweaking, insight, and features. This is one of the few if not the "oldest" DAW software out there... and you are just going to kill it?
No regard to those who spent on it, who dedicated time talent and cash to the product you now own?
This is the problem with business in general today, we have been sold a bill of goods by the MBAs of the world, and nothing has value. 30 years of development guys!!! 30 freakin' years, older than the operating system it now runs on... "oh lets reorganize and streamline our operation, what can we cut to achieve an artificial number someone came up with in finance"
I know its hard to see a piece of software as a classic... 
Unbelieveable...

manfromplanetx
Unbelievable... 
Been using this since the days of DOS Cakewalk, then synced with Samplitude, then took a break and discovered Sonar 2.0. Why do this guys? I just "subscribed" like 6 months ago after running 8.5 forever.
Unbelievable...
Look at what you are shutting down, 30yrs of freaking development, tweaking, insight, and features. This is one of the few if not the "oldest" DAW software out there... and you are just going to kill it?
No regard to those who spent on it, who dedicated time talent and cash to the product you now own?
This is the problem with business in general today, we have been sold a bill of goods by the MBAs of the world, and nothing has value. 30 years of development guys!!! 30 freakin' years, older than the operating system it now runs on... "oh lets reorganize and streamline our operation, what can we cut to achieve an artificial number someone came up with in finance"
I know its hard to see a piece of software as a classic... 
Unbelieveable...

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