interesting... had no plans on going anywhere just yet, so I'll be here on watch hoping things continue to get better for us.

Just to be clear, are you saying that customers of Cakewalk prior to the acquisition of "some assets" will still be able to download and activate products purchased from Cakewalk prior to that acquisition from this new website? Acquiring assets does not automatically imply acquiring or accepting the obligations of the organization from which the assets were acquired.
 
If not, then hopefully the Cakewalk servers will still be operational in some form in order to activate already purchased products. If not, then this is very bad news for current Cakewalk customers who do not want to purchase everything again from a new company. The ongoing development of SONAR etc. may be a good thing for those who can afford to move to new licenses at any price, but would represent a significant loss to those who plan to use existing Cakewalk activations.
 
btw How does this relate to the promise that Cakewalk would provide a way to activate customers' products without access to the Cakewalk servers?

Potentially great news! I've migrated to Samplitude (still considering Studio One), but I have 20 years with SONAR, and if Bandlab does a good job I'd much prefer to stay with SONAR.

slartabartfast
Just to be clear, are you saying that customers of Cakewalk prior to the acquisition of "some assets" will still be able to download and activate products purchased from Cakewalk prior to that acquisition from this new website? Acquiring assets does not automatically imply acquiring or accepting the obligations of the organization from which the assets were acquired.

This is something BandLab will need to address. I do not believe the current FAQ even considered purchases made from the "closeout" sales. I hope these will be managed by the existing infrastructure since the product was created and packaged for the retailers before the change over - since it is the old product, after all. But that would be speculation on my part and as likely to be wrong or more so than to be right.

I only have one question, considering they are saying :
 
"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. ".
 
Does this mean if I want to reactivate my Sonar Platinum and license through command center "Or the download files which I already have" in the future that I will have to purchase a new license through them considering they are basically saying in that statement that due to the no fault clause "I suspect" that they don't owe nobody nothing who were previous customers of cakewalk, not even a reactivate previous software if needed???
 
Anyone a lawyer or better in the know here? I would like to know more about this. The part about the certain aspect of Cakewalk.com not working gives me the impression and considering my previous question gives me the impression that if you don't have your Cakewalk software activated now, it may not be happen in the future. 
 
Like I said, I'm asking questions here, as I am sure others would like to know also....... 
 
 

Serious_Noize!
Does this mean if I want to reactivate my Sonar Platinum and license through command center "Or the download files which I already have" in the future that I will have to purchase a new license

no

So where's the activation code?

The activation process has not changed. AFAIK, the old Gibson FAQ about activation still holds true.

So is that part of the "Cakewalk organization" that BandLab did not acquire or part of the assets they did acquire? I'm not trying to be difficult. Just trying to figure out where we stand with the permanent activation process that a Cakewalk representative promised us in the past. 

There is a god!!

Thank you!!!!!!