If the product will continue to work, then why am I suddenly in Demo mode!? The only reason I'm reading this is because I came here to find out if any one else was having the same problem. I paid a lot of money for this package over the years. Is it all going to end like this?

Thank you Noel and Company (sans Gibson) for all you have done. I really hope there is a new beginning in this story rather than just an ending. May the road rise to meet you...
Julien

Anderton

LJB
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.

Same here. I found out Friday that Cakewalk was officially closed down from contacts at other companies, and called Noel on Sunday just to make sure. To me it's like a death in the family.
 
On the bright side, there are still people using ancient versions of SONAR, so I think it's probably safe to assume I'll get plenty more years out of it before Windows changes to the point where it's unusable.
 
On the other hand...as I've mentioned before, I also use Studio One Pro for the mastering-oriented Project page functions and Ableton Live for live performance. I've always felt SOP was closest to SONAR, so I guess it's time to learn the Song page functionality and move on.
 
I'm downloading the Studio One Pro soundsets in the background...
 
BTW someone might want to hip Gibson to the typo in the "Annoucement" headline.

Thank you Craig, I was reading.. hoping to find input from you. I’ve looked at several DAWs and S1 P certainly looks like the best bet. I can’t tell if Muxbus is 64bit or just works with it. Cubase, from what I can tell is 32, but I’m not sure S1 P says it is 64bit, that matters to me. Also it’s the most affordable of the bunch though I have not looked at Reaper.
Something I read on a FB Cakewalk users group that jumped out at me is that Gibson is about 350
Million in debt and Cakewalk May have more value to them as a write off loss on their taxes than it would have for them if they sold it. That is something to think about. If someone could get the code, then there are those who would run it but that may not be an option, I dont know.
I do know that I’m glad to know you’re using S1P. I think you’re more of a traditional musician. I’m not looking for something to make beats or electronic music but some synth, VSTs, program drums, play guitar, sing, record. S1P sounds like a deal at $99..I think it’s $199. Cubase is about $350 for a crossgrade and Mixbus (if you get everything) is $300 IIRC. I heard somewhere that Prosonus is talking about a special crossgrade price for SPLAT users. I dont know if it will beat the $199 but I hope it shows in the next 5 days.
Thanks for the help. I’m sticky my with Sonar but going to spend time, more time in S1.
Julien

If Gibson has a business loss in general, they do not need a deduction for a loss on Cakewalk. 
But Gibson, which I think is doing really well with guitars (they are better than they use to be), should care about its reputation.  And working with other companies to share the Sonar codes would be very helpful.

You know.. November, just before Christmas may seem a lousy time to hear you don’t have a job BUT it is better than January when you’ve just spent a lot on a nice Christmas because you thought everything was going along fine. Maybe it’s better this way. Now they know to cut back and plan wisely, I dont know.. just a thought. Certainly not defending Gibson. I’ll never buy another Gibson or Epiphone, they used to make great guitars.., in the 50s but those days are LONG GONE and the crappy guitars they peddle now, for too much money (Agile is better), will not sustain them in this time of remixing and loops. Bye Felicia (Gibson)!

@JBow
 
Curious?  where did you see $99?
Thanks

deswind
If Gibson has a business loss in general, they do not need a deduction for a loss on Cakewalk. 
But Gibson, which I think is doing really well with guitars (they are better than they use to be), should care about its reputation.  And working with other companies to share the Sonar codes would be very helpful.

Good, sounds good. I hope they care but I doubt it, after all they are GIBSON! Some people just don’t learn or learn everything the hard way. I hope that isn’t the case. I have X3 and current SPLAT but I may jump for S1P because I feel insecure over all this. I’m in the process of setting up (finally) a dedicated studio room and am glad to know this now. I hate change and I really hate surprise change that I don’t understand... but there’s lots of things that I don’t understand but it’ll be ok. It’s just life.
J

stratman70
@JBow
 
Curious?  where did you see $99?
Thanks

I was mistaken. It was $199, I was looking at several options and got mixed up. I think I fixed it, I’ll check. Sorry, if I do see that I’ll surely post it with a link!

Starting a kick-starter campaign sounds like an excellent idea.   The intellectual assets for this product have to end up somewhere. 

deswind
If Gibson has a business loss in general, they do not need a deduction for a loss on Cakewalk. 
But Gibson, which I think is doing really well with guitars (they are better than they use to be), should care about its reputation.  And working with other companies to share the Sonar codes would be very helpful.

I'm thinking the same thing. If Gibson, in the short time it has owned Cakewalk has managed to recover some portion of it's acquisition cost, the value might just be in writeoff. Selling Sonar would tend to mess that up.