Like you said, Jarsve, let them write in Norwegian. Your English ain't very good, but better than anything I could write in any other language.  And understandable, to boot, if you are competent in English yourself.  It does need a re-write in proper English, so maybe some of the complainers will give it a go and put their re-writes up for criticism. ;-)
 
I don't think that MS is all that interested, but it is like asking a girl out for a date.  You'll never know until you actually ask.
 
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So much dedication, hard work, persistence, talent, loving and caring for its users.  Surely someone will see the value in this product line and acquire it. 

Savij
HOWEVER,
There is another option that has not been talked about. It will show whether there is real support or not..... I/we can start a KickStarter campaign. Let people put their money where their mouth is. Sooner or later you will need to pony up money for a solution. One possibility is to make that Sonar. I bet if a campaign offered 100k for rights to Sonar, that would get Gibson's attention.
 
Again, I am a Senior Software Engineer (although not in C++ which I assume Sonar was written)...

If you are a senior software engineer, why you think that Cakewalk IP, after 30 years of company development, cost just ONE year salary of ONE (not extremely good payed) senior software engineer?
 
But even if you collect something more reasonable, what you are going to do with it? (see my previous post).
 

It's like living with a girlfriend, having a wonderful night together and in the morning you wake up with a letter on the kitchen table, she's gone ,she's not with you anymore forever. The monthly updates were a train running faster and faster, now I discover that it was going to crash on a wall, a sort of parabola of modern industry, where they stress us to develop more, produce more, and noone knows if it is so because they know we are selling less.
 
It's now 20 years since '97, 10-12 songs every year, plus the songs before '97 which I ported to digital from my multitrack recorder, all within Sonar (currently Sonar Professional).
 
Here in Italy the DAW competition for musical pro-hobbysts like me is Cubase, Logic and Sonar. All professional studios have ProTools (with poor midi). Boys use Reaper. But just thinking of something else is a pain.
 
Being on Windows, I guess I will go on using Sonar, but I will start to bounce everything  to audio in the end; I will also devote Sundays to open the old sonar bundle files and save them as omf. Next year, at the black Friday, I will consider a crossgrade, but not now, I cannot. I am stick to Sonar, I can't use anything else but Sonar.
 
I wish to greet the Sonar developer people, who I'm sure are reading this post, for the years we have spent together and because they enabled us to do music. I also write, perhaps for the last time, to wave my hello to all the forum contributors, I've seen Craig, Stratman, daveny, SusanG and all the others in this post, (even Brandon!), it's been a good time together, I've grown with you.

 
Sad days, some people so want you to continue
using sonar, and it is difficult to continue using the software with validity data
windows soon ending with the sonar, this is fact
I started playing in the pro tools oh, God, how I hate pro tools. . studio one,
Reason, Ableton is a S****, reaper, etc. .....................
I still love my sonar.
 
 
ps. sorry for my english
**** YOU GIBSON

Very sad to read this announcement. For employees at Cakewalk I hope they find a good new job. And thank you all very much for this great DAW that you have developed! Cakewalk is to young to die.
 
29th of december last year I've bought Sonar Platinum with lifetime updates. I have used many years cubase LE (had an very old version, it was livred by a yamaha synthesizer in 2003. Last year I wanted a complete and better DAW, much more up to date. First bought in november 2016 by  local musicstore an older version, x1 producer and a month later I upgraded it to sonar Platinum, because they were adviced with a upgrade to platinum and it was the last chance to get it with a lifetime update... diddn't know that the lifetime was 11 months...
I'm still learning, regularly I find new functions in Platinum and now I don't know what to do. Crossgrade to another or wait till it not works anymore over a couple of years.
 
I know my english is not good, hope it's readable.
 

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As  producer and guitarist, I am extremely sad!  I think of all of you at Cakewalk in this Christmas holidays ! 
 
I have certainly been fooled with the lifetime subscription, but I know it's not the fault of the Cakewalk employees. You have always been loyal for 30 years. I wish you the best!

For the rest, It's hard to imagine a worse advertising campaign from a company like Gibson! 

What a treacherous Christmas gift!

Hello guys
Read this report from an employee of Cakewalk .... Reveals interesting things about the "end" of Sonar:

www.reddit.com/r/Cakewalk/comments/7fwb6h/former_employee_here_ama/
 

Anderton
.... I will definitely miss sonar, big time, but that's the way it goes. ....

Craig,  I am much surprised so many people are already moving to other DAWs. When you say you will miss Sonar -  is that mean you are about to stop using Sonar now?  Do you expect Win10 update would make Sonar unusable any time soon?