Been with Cakewalk Sonar since 3  - sad

One question  - if no updates, reduced support  etc continuing what happens to the balance of the montly payment plan took out - - as while I would like to have what I have and keep using SOnar stand alone into the future -- if support/updates etc stops - -then shouldnt it be competely validated/lifetime as of now
 

jpetersen
If Microsoft comes up with another "Creator's Update" that breaks Sonar, my installs are toast.
I now regret moving from Win7 to Win10.

Save your install files as a normal backup. Then if this happens, you can always go back you windows 7 and use sonar as you want. Windows 7 will fork for many many years to come. I dont remember when they pull the plug on that. But its many years.

Anderton
Don Williams is the real deal. I was involved with Don in trying to get notation into SONAR, and Don was more than reasonable at all stages of the effort. He really wanted to make it happen. So did I.
 
I would highly recommend that anyone who wants really good notation check into Overture 5. 

Got it !  Thanks Craig and Don ...

Anderton
 
If I were  Microsoft, I'd see if I could acquire SONAR Home Studio and make it the "Windows GarageBand."

Maybe. But MS would need to find an answer to the doc latency issues that PCs can suffer from first. Doesn't look very good when your customers can only get latency of 50ms+ without crackling and pops and "disable the wi-fi/external USB gadgets/whatever and go buy a different widget" doesn't give a good impression to customers. Especially ones knowing nothing about Windows and DAWs.
 
And if altering BIOS settings, cpu parking and setting up customs power schemes is required I  suspect that's beyond the ability of Mr/MS AveragePC User.
 
All this gets multiplied on laptops where there's no proper access to the full BIOS and fixed internal hardware.
 
I may well be wrong, but I've thought for a long time that the reason MS have never competed wit Garageband is (1) they've no product to use it as a loss leader for and (2) getting to the state where all PCs "just work out of the box" as an acceptable DAW, even at Garageband levels, is pretty much impossible.
 
Maybe it's possible on MS produced hardware, but on all the thousands and thousands differently configured PC models churned out by hundreds of manufacturers every year?

Jarsve
i give up. thank!

Ignore them. The person criticising you is like a rude, unpleasant child to everyone.
 
You've done the best you can and no-one can ask more than that.
 

Matron Landslide
Of course you can, I've been doing for ages on both Pro and Home versions
 
Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services then scroll down to Windows Update and disable it.
 
Don't worry what anybody else says, it's permanent (unless you decide to change it) it works perfectly, all my PC's and Laptops (a mixture of Pro and Home) are all done like that, and they all remain on the same version and build number as when I done it ages ago. If at sometime you do want to update, you just enable it again.

That is ridiculous. Why would anyone want to disable updates? If software is not supported and not able to survive in operating system environment, it needs to be replaced. The issue is not only with Windows update. On many occasions, I had 3rd party software (last time Waldorf software synths) not working and I would contact tech support, they would say, "Sonar? We dont test with this software, we dont know". After Cakewalk is closed, no developers will test their software to make sure it is working correctly with Sonar. The bugs and problems will grow like untreated health problems. 

I've owned Cakewalk products since 2003 and though I don't generate income with SONAR, I don't regret any purchases I've made in the last 14 years because I enjoyed supporting a group of people that obviously cared about what they do.  I know this is a difficult time for the employees affected but I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all your hard work over the years.  Along with this forum you've  made it a special thing to be a Cakewalk supporter and I enjoyed every minute of it.  It was a great ride and I wish each and every one at Cakewalk the best.  Thanks again
 

Thanks for your post Don. I was a huge fan of Master Tracks Pro back in the day!

Overture 5 tiene la misma apariencia de Sonar...
 
¿tal vez Overture 5 será la nueva versión de Sonar :) sin gibson?

Is it April 1st?