"abbadon" is used by Cakewalk for authentication and pre-dates us at BandLab. 
 
As to why it's called "abbadon" (I googled it) I have no idea :-) I will ask Noel and find out!

Good stuff.

I was pleased this morning to get an email from BandLab concerning the new CbB release. Now this gives me something to forward to friends and it just might interest them.

meng
"abbadon" is used by Cakewalk for authentication and pre-dates us at BandLab. 
 
As to why it's called "abbadon" (I googled it) I have no idea :-) I will ask Noel and find out!

That's another conspiracy theory gone.
 
Thanks Meng

iRelevant
[font="'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large"]Re: New free Sonar Platinum! Is this a dream or a nightmare??

 
Hoo boy the paranoia and negativity of some folk's in this world never ceases to amaze me :)
File names, really? Some of this stuff has been there for 20 years in the app. Nothing new in Cakewalk by Bandlab there.

meng
"abbadon" is used by Cakewalk for authentication and pre-dates us at BandLab. 
 
As to why it's called "abbadon" (I googled it) I have no idea :-) I will ask Noel and find out!

Its just somebody's "quirky" sense of humor. Nothing dark or doomsday there. We have all kinds of weird names in some places. What's next auditing code quality based on file and variable names? :)

I wouldn’t recommend Sonar/cakewalk to any friend,it’s just not stable enough,when I heard it was ceasing to exist I moved over to Reaper,unbelievable difference in stability .not 1 single crash so far and its so light on resources ,does everything sonar does and more it doesn’t .

My guess is that the biggest surge of interest will be when one or more of the Music and PC magazines run an article on how to use Cakewalk by BandLab with a bunch of the freely available VSTs especially some of those available from commercial providers as loss leaders.
 
I think that for those who have taken the "free" route CbB offers a great way to move to something a bit more "up market" without paying for it.
 

Mmmmmm....Yeah...It kinda was.

iRelevant
What you are showing here is ironically the MIDI only prototype circulating the Interweb in the latter part of '97.
The marketing was "lone independent developer takes on the corporations" with shareware. "The only shareware worth paying for".
PS. I appreciate your initiative, but think it still is to early to make a push for CB. 
 

Look, I'm not hating on FLStudio. I was one of the few people championing it around version 4 or 5 when it really got some legs.  But you have to understand, Cakewalk, Cubase, Protools etc, were full fledged DAWS in the late 90's. While FL was still teething. Those early years and funny sounding name kinda gave it a bad rep (maybe an unfair one but still). A rep that I for one am very happy it was able to shake.
 

pwalpwal
you should promote cakewalk by highlighting its good points, not by trashing the competition

I'm not. I was pointing out it's very humble beginnings and it's original lack luster perception and how it was able to over come those things later partly by good word of mouth and healthy growth of it's user base. It's really an underdog story with a happy ending.
 
I'm not a hater - I'm a congratulator