Maybe I'm underthinking this, but it seems to me that CbB is pretty much like downloading a monthly update, except you're getting it through BandLab Assistant instead of Command Center. If you had Platinum your Platinum stuff is still there. Professional users get to keep their extra plug-ins, but both Professional and Artist users get an upgrade to the core Platinum features.
 
Whenever there was a monthly update there were always threads about perceived problems, real or imagined, and I suspect any update will foster some of these...and that most can be resolved (at least with scook's assistance ).
 
If you're concerned, just set a system restore point before going the CbB route. I just installed it, and it sure looks and acts like Sonar.
 
Don't worry, be happy. 

I'm curious when the remainder of the full Plat install will be ready. I have Sonar Pro  and now CbB, installed and everything is smooth with the new core Daw engine installed. Looking forward to a few added plugs and instruments.

Rbh
I'm curious when the remainder of the full Plat install will be ready. I have Sonar Pro  and now CbB, installed and everything is smooth with the new core Daw engine installed. Looking forward to a few added plugs and instruments.

I don't think anybody's gonna answer that question. Or, looked at another way, this is the "full Plat install." It's the core program. Plugins were extras. Sometimes they were "free," but only after you paid for an upgrade (except for a brief period of "lifetime" upgrades).

Always in motion is the future.

Rbh
I'm curious when the remainder of the full Plat install will be ready. I have Sonar Pro  and now CbB, installed and everything is smooth with the new core Daw engine installed. Looking forward to a few added plugs and instruments.

Heee Hee
They Are b#@dy brilliant plug ins too.......................You'll love them......at some point.........I guess.
AHHHHhhhh the Future.........don't you love it :)
 

The big difference now is that offline Splat users are pretty much out of luck when it comes to updating to CbB...

I admire your positive and constructive attitude Craig. The issue for me is not the Bandlab software. Cakewalk may, or may not be out of business. I don't know. All I know is they stopped work and laid off the staff. Their intellectual property (whatever that is) has been sold to a new company. I had a contract with Cakewalk based on a fee paid for a product, but I have no contract with BAndlab. They have no responsibility to me in any way. If my Cakewalk purchased stuff stops working they don't have to help me. They are a completely new and un-tethered entity.
 
Fair enough. But why am I being coerced into a relationship with this new company in order to use the goods I bought from the company that is now gone. I feel like Bandlab actually bought the registered users of the Cakewalk company. For me that's the crux of the entire problem. There was no formal wrapping up of my contract with Cakewalk. I should be able to walk away with everything I purchased, and the ability to use it until it becomes unserviceable. 
 
I have purchased alternatives due to the uncertainty of this situation and I really like them. This does not prevent me from using the Cakewalk software I have paid for, but Bandlab now says I have to go through them to do so. I want nothing to do with Bandlab really, it's not my thing, I don't do social media.
 
So how is it legal for a company that I have no contract with, to force me into providing them with my personal information, product codes, buying history and credit card information, to access something that they don't own and have no responsibility for?
 
Meng?, Noel?  How about somebody explain how this works. 

Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Where did you pick that up from?
 
You existing Platinum installation will continue to work unless a future Windows update or hardware change kills it. What then?
 
Well, to coin a phrase, you're buggered - because you'll be trying to use software provided by a company which no longer exists.

Formal wrapping up when Cakewalk was sold to another company. That's all there is. Go away if you don't like it.

Bristol_Jonesey
Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Where did you pick that up from?
 
You existing Platinum installation will continue to work unless a future Windows update or hardware change kills it. What then?
 
Well, to coin a phrase, you're buggered - because you'll be trying to use software provided by a company which no longer exists.

SHORT , BLUNT , EXTREMELY ACCURATE PERHAPS .........what more can you call for ......Hey ?
Thnx indeed  for your ever so polite input 
Have a Nice Day :)
Cheers......Frank