Are we allowed to repost news from Discord in Cakewalk Discuss?

[User 905133]

If not, please let me know and I will edit the following quotation out.  Thanks.

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Announcement: Cakewalk by BandLab Deadline Extension

Hi @everyone

We’ve been listening closely to feedback from across the Cakewalk community, and we want to address some of the main concerns around the transition from Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) to Sonar.

• Extended access to CbB
  • We’ve extended CbB access through September 30 to give you more time to plan, prepare, and transition at your own pace. We heard that the original timeline felt too short, and we agree that more breathing room will help make the process smoother.
• Sonar is still Cakewalk at its core
  • Sonar builds on the same workflow and feature depth that long-time users rely on, with significant performance and stability upgrades under the hood, including a modernized engine, improved handling of heavy project loads, and better support for high-resolution displays. If you’re coming from CbB, it will feel familiar, but faster, sharper, and ready for what’s next.
• Improving usability
  • We’re introducing expanded color customization and theming controls to give you more flexibility in how the DAW looks and feels. We will also continue to evaluate ways to make Sonar easier and more comfortable for everyone to use

Thank you to everyone who has shared feedback and helped others through the transition. Getting it right for the long-term means listening, especially to people like you who know the product inside out. We’ll continue to share updates here and across our channels, and we remain committed to supporting this community through the next chapter.

— The Cakewalk Team   [reformatted from the Discord post]

 

Edited 16 hours ago by User 905133
removed a duplicate word

[Terry Kelley]

Well, well.

[Sidney Earl Goodroe]

I left CbB on my desktop. I fired it up and got the no activation toast. Now with the so called extension, how do I reactivate?

[Starship Krupa]

Why would we not be allowed to do that? I don't think that the company is trying to hide the information, @Ashwin Rao posted the same announcement on Reddit. I was kind of surprised that he didn't post it here as well.

To me, everything sounds like the grownups on the Peanuts specials until we get to this:

"We’re introducing expanded color customization and theming controls to give you more flexibility in how the DAW looks and feels."

[Amberwolf]

Also....see here:

 

[mettelus]

13 hours ago, User 905133 said:

We’ve been listening closely to feedback from across the Cakewalk community

Not really sure that is "listening," since there was a good number of threads prior to the announcement that got locked regarding this. More a knee-jerk reaction IMO. As soon as you force someone to upgrade into something they didn't ask for just to recover work they invested time into (not everyone uses their DAW daily), you've pretty much backed yourself into a corner. Regaining trust isn't an easy task, and it isn't done with social media.

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

2 hours ago, mettelus said:

Not really sure that is "listening," since there was a good number of threads prior to the announcement that got locked regarding this. More a knee-jerk reaction IMO. 

It’s rare to see such seamless crossover between heavy-handed moderation and questionable artistic output. At least they’re equally committed to both.