Bandlab has taken on Cakewalk/Sonar IP (and some assets). They have already put up a new website.
 
Here are some of the most important Q & As;
 
Will anyone from the original Cakewalk development team be joining BandLab?
Absolutely. More details will be shared soon.
 
Is the old website still relevant or active?
No. Certain features on www.cakewalk.com may still work, but we are now in a migration process to ensure everything that has been acquired will be safely transferred as well as archiving the old site onto a legacy subdomain.
 
Will the Cakewalk forums continue to be available?
Yes! The Cakewalk forums are valuable resources for bakers as well as other professionals in the music community. We plan on keeping the peer-to-peer forums active.
 
I’m an existing or old SONAR user and have questions about my old account or subscription or want a refund.
BandLab Technologies did not acquire the operating company of Cakewalk Inc., only the complete set of intellectual property, patents, trademarks and certain assets necessary or related to the entire Cakewalk product suite. 

For users of Cakewalk from before 21st February 2018 – please refer to the original Gibson/Cakewalk announcement FAQ here.

The website link: https://cakewalk.bandlab.com/

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Yes, it is great news especially as I don't have to keep on migrating all my projects to other DAWs now. I wonder how many Sonar users have permanently gone elsewhere now though. I have pretty much moved on from Sonar now, but it would be great to see it live on and develop. Bandlab is a very new company, who only started in 2016. Hopefully, that will drive their enthusiasm. As a company, they seem to know what they are doing. I guess we'll have to see what happens.

I'm using studio one in my studio, but in my music classroom I'm using sonar still.
I'm enjoying many things about studio one, but missing many things about sonar.
I have no problem paying for and using both moving forward.

35mm

 I wonder how many Sonar users have permanently gone elsewhere now though.

Time for another poll?

Mesh

35mm

I wonder how many Sonar users have permanently gone elsewhere now though.

Time for another poll?

lol no, never again!

Wow!  Good news for Sonar!
Had to get a new pc lately (old one crashed). I was able to reinstall all the Sonar Platinum software from the CW website. Any way I did buy a crossgrade of Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio (boxed version), but have not installed on new pc. 
 
Can't tear myself away from SPLAT!! Love it!! Looking forward to see what BandLab will do. Hoping for bigger and better things to come!

Looks promising! I'm pulling for them! I'm still hanging around, with Studio One in the wings...
 
Gibson's spiral toward bankruptcy covered here: 
 
S&P frets over Gibson Guitars' debt problem
http://money.cnn.com/2018...son-guitars/index.html

I have been with Cakewalk since cakewalk pro audio 6 with a break here and there. I am now looking at other DAWs like cubase, samplitude and maybe studio one since I hear so much about it. I will still support sonar if it continues, but from this I have learned..again... not to place all your sardines in one can. Will for sure have two or more DAWS on hand always.