I started using Cakewalk for DOS version 1.1 before color monitors and before Windows was invented. No mouse.
I have stayed with it all these many years even though there was always pressure from people in the business to use other software. I finally purchased the lifetime updates reciently. i would like to hope this will be honored by the new company. if not i will have to finally switch to Pro Tools. its a sad day.....

Looks like you will be switching to Pro Tools then . . . Enjoy the change, you'll probably find it liberating, refreshing, and something you should have done long ago . . . and of course there is always other DAW's where you will likely experience the same emotions . . . embrace it

So many posts in the past 5 months, starting with their 'Cakewalk life story' . DOS this, Windows 3.1 that, Soundblaster, floppy etc...

Kamikaze
So many posts in the past 5 months, starting with their 'Cakewalk life story' . DOS this, Windows 3.1 that, Soundblaster, floppy etc...

LOL yeah that's been grinding my gears as well. It's like there's some kind of template going around. "Let me just say that I've been using Cakewalk since 1989. Here's a photo of my original floppies, which I still have. Here's a list of the versions I've used since then. I was shocked to learn recently that blah blah blah, lifetime updates, blah blah blibbety outrage disgust sadness disappointment." Does tend to get a little samey. 

I'm sticking with Sonar.

I started using Cakewalk in 1936 on my first Turing Machine. Look here's a photo of the 12 Tone fanies that came with it.
 
 
If the company that has no obligation to me as a customer doesn't give me free support for the rest of my life, then I'm not going to give them the money I wasn't going to give them.

markarbogast
I started using Cakewalk for DOS version 1.1 before color monitors and before Windows was invented. No mouse.
I have stayed with it all these many years even though there was always pressure from people in the business to use other software. I finally purchased the lifetime updates reciently. i would like to hope this will be honored by the new company. if not i will have to finally switch to Pro Tools. its a sad day.....

I'm not being smarmy I promise, but Bandlab didn't promise you lifetime upgrades; Cakewalk/Gibson did, and they went out of business.  In turn, Bandlab didn't buy the CW business, they bought the SONAR code.  That's two very different things.  So BL doesn't owe any of us lifetime updates.  If they had bought CW then we might have a case, but again they only bought the SONAR code (or some part of it).
 
Best of luck with your music.

Lifetime updates were for the lifetime of Cakewalk.  That ended in Nov 2017.

Hey guys, I feel it is necessary to point out that Cakewalk (product) users have made critical comments (in other forums) regarding the hostility in our forums.  The Cakewalk forums always had the great reputation of being a friendly and helpful place. So can you please help the rest of us restore that reputation particularly as we make the move to the BandLab community?  I for one would greatly appreciate it.
 
Kind regards,
 
tecknot
 

sharke

Kamikaze
So many posts in the past 5 months, starting with their 'Cakewalk life story' . DOS this, Windows 3.1 that, Soundblaster, floppy etc...

LOL yeah that's been grinding my gears as well. It's like there's some kind of template going around. "Let me just say that I've been using Cakewalk since 1989. Here's a photo of my original floppies, which I still have. Here's a list of the versions I've used since then. I was shocked to learn recently that blah blah blah, lifetime updates, blah blah blibbety outrage disgust sadness disappointment." Does tend to get a little samey. 

It almost makes it look like Cakewalk couldn't get any new customers over the last 30 years.  I suppose that would explain their finances if they hadn't gotten any new blood over such a long time span.