Anyone wants to help out on writing this in better English? I cant do better...
 
Cakewalk and later Sonar has been our favorite DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for many years. It is the home we go to when being creative. From writing, record, mixing to master songs and albums. Sonar has some unique features too. Like ProChannel with always open go too effects. The first/best ARA implementation. Was the first one to go full 64 Bit. Made by musicians for musicians. Has been on Microsoft products since the 80’s. We deeply love Cakewalk and Sonar.
Gibson is now stopping developing and service of Cakewalk and Sonar. Now, they are basically giving it up, and letting it die.
Dear Microsoft.
Please rescue Cakewalk and Sonar out of Gibson. You can make Sonar a system like Office and Office 365. And Music Creator to an app in the store. And please make it under insider, so that we, the users can have a say in the development. You can rebrand it if you want, but please make it backward compatible with current Sonar, Music Creator and plugin base.
 
https://www.ipetitions.co...ewalk-and-sonar-out-of

Jarsve

Sylvan

Jarsve
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https://www.ipetitions.co...ewalk-and-sonar-out-of

I want to sign this but can whoever made this re-write it to correct the grammar and spelling issues? I am not trying to be a punk here, but in order to be taken seriously we should put forth our best effort. I feel that if someone from Microsoft that has any kind of authority to actually do something about this reads this page with the poorly written English (grammar and spelling issues,) they will immediately get the impression that this is not very serious.


Please, let's do this right. Fix the poorly written English.
 
Thank you,
-Charles

Thanks, be free to write it. English is not my first language, so I appreciate if someone better write it.

Then why did you write it? 

Jarsve
And to the person pashing my English... Try to write it in Norwegian and then I can judge you how your Norwegian is. I do this to help YOU guys of. I dont ned this!!!

I am not a brain surgeon, this is why I dont do brain surgeries. You should of write in Norwegian. 

i give up. thank!

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

Thank you for posting this Ademir.  This gives closure for me.  It is hard to describe the emotion I am going through with Cakewalk going under.  Their tech support was a model for all other companies until recently.  Sonar Platinum is really a great DAW. 
 
After much research and studying, I went to Cubase 9.5 Pro and I am finding that things are very similar to Sonar Platinum.  I will get along with the change fine.  But there was something about all the hard work it took to learn Sonar.  The long hours of reading manuals and books, tutorials, videos and those frustrating moments where you could not get things to work right.  I used to lose it on a regular basis when I couldn't get things to work.  Then there came a point when all the hard work and effort to learn Sonar finally pays off and you realize how truly amazing Sonar is.  You no longer fight with the program and it becomes a breeze to work.  There is a real feeling of accomplishment that you have mastered such a great program. The amazing works that you create with it that give you so many "Wow" moments.  I think this is where the emotion comes in so strong.
 
At this point, it doesn't matter who is to blame.  What is done is done and we all have to move on at some point.  Still, there will always be great memories of this spot in time that we will talk about for years.  
 
Thanks you all at Cakewalk for all you have done for us.  You are appreciated.

Jarsve
Anyone wants to help out on writing this in better English? I cant do better...
 
Cakewalk and later Sonar has been our favorite DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for many years. It is the home we go to when being creative. From writing, record, mixing to master songs and albums. Sonar has some unique features too. Like ProChannel with always open go too effects. The first/best ARA implementation. Was the first one to go full 64 Bit. Made by musicians for musicians. Has been on Microsoft products since the 80’s. We deeply love Cakewalk and Sonar.
Gibson is now stopping developing and service of Cakewalk and Sonar. Now, they are basically giving it up, and letting it die.
Dear Microsoft.
Please rescue Cakewalk and Sonar out of Gibson. You can make Sonar a system like Office and Office 365. And Music Creator to an app in the store. And please make it under insider, so that we, the users can have a say in the development. You can rebrand it if you want, but please make it backward compatible with current Sonar, Music Creator and plugin base.
 
https://www.ipetitions.co...ewalk-and-sonar-out-of

Frankly, your English is so much better than my Norwegian, all I can say is "good job."
 
I believe Noel is pretty well connected with Microsoft. I would be surprised if he wasn't trying to explore some possibilities ,and if anyone can connect with Microsoft, it would be him and not forum visitors. But there's also the question of whether Gibson would sell the IP, which I don't know. 
 
If I were  Microsoft, I'd see if I could acquire SONAR Home Studio and make it the "Windows GarageBand."

Afrodrum

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?

It's a crossfade. I'll use SONAR less and less, and another program more and more, until the other program takes over at some point.
 
Why? Because I happen to know there are some significant MIDI changes due to roll out over next couple of years. I don't know whether that will require changes in DAWs or not, but I want to be ready if it does.
 
I am working with Studio One because I am already quite familiar with it. Cubase is of course an excellent program, it's what I used before SONAR...the main reason I switched was because Cubase didn't handle loops well back then, but it does now. Mixcraft has really grown up with the past few revs, people ignore it at their own peril, but I decided I wanted cross-platform this time around just in case the Macs being promised for 2018 are really as awesome as Apple says they will be (not holding my breath, but you never know). I also use a MacBook Pro on the road, so I want something that works natively with that as well as the Windows workhorse in my studio.
 
I'm already conversant with Pro Tools, I did a lot of classical sessions with it. It's okay, but not great for what I do. Ableton Live has been a part of my world since it was released, AFAIK it's the only program worth considering for live performance.
 
FWIW, I was very impressed with the statement from PreSonus welcoming SONAR users. It gave props to SONAR and the devs, and had some real heart and appreciation in it. Giving an extra discount to SONAR users crossgrading because they were "homeless" was a nice touch.

Craig asked for better language....okay. **** GIBSON. They should know better than to mess with Cakewalk. This will be the end of their empire.

Excuse me, “CHUCK GIBSON”.

I wish the adaptive limiter was a vst plugin...
Same for the pro channel.

I wish so many things...

It all just seems... weird. Sad and weird.

Still trying out other daws. I'll ride the SPLAT train until the wheels fall off I guess.