I'm one of the suckers who fell for the Sonar "lifetime upgrades" from Cakewalk a year or so ago and who now are stuck with software that won't ever be upgraded again. Unless some other company steps up to the plate and buys it from Gibson.
What are people moving to as an alternate? I don't really want to mess with Steinberg's licensing system, although if I have to in order to continue to have a great DAW I will. I realize that some others also use a USB dongle and I'd rather not have to mess with that. I know that Steinberg's soft-e-licenser can eliminate that but I really want to have software that will work on both my desktop and my laptop without having to remember to either bring the dongle or de-activate on one machine so I can re-activate it on the other.
I've downloaded Reaper and will be investigating that in the coming weeks.
What other suggestions have people found to move forward with? I'm on Win10 64-bit computers (both my desktop and laptop) and use both midi and audio in my projects (sometimes each alone and other projects with both midi and audio mixed together).
Thanks for any insights anyone can share -- I'm heartbroken about the loss of Sonar and Cakewalk. I've been using Cakewalk since the days when the company was known as Twelve Tone Systems.
What are people moving to as an alternate? I don't really want to mess with Steinberg's licensing system, although if I have to in order to continue to have a great DAW I will. I realize that some others also use a USB dongle and I'd rather not have to mess with that. I know that Steinberg's soft-e-licenser can eliminate that but I really want to have software that will work on both my desktop and my laptop without having to remember to either bring the dongle or de-activate on one machine so I can re-activate it on the other.
I've downloaded Reaper and will be investigating that in the coming weeks.
What other suggestions have people found to move forward with? I'm on Win10 64-bit computers (both my desktop and laptop) and use both midi and audio in my projects (sometimes each alone and other projects with both midi and audio mixed together).
Thanks for any insights anyone can share -- I'm heartbroken about the loss of Sonar and Cakewalk. I've been using Cakewalk since the days when the company was known as Twelve Tone Systems.