Check this post from Sound on Sound.  
https://www.soundonsound....s/cakewalk-sonar-lives
 
Note this paragraph from the article:
Current SONAR users needn't worry about cross-grade pricing either. In a post on the Cakewalk forums, Meng Kuok has stated that "our steadfast goal is that former SONAR owners (of all versions) will not need to spend any money to cross-over/cross-grade to the future flagship product."
 
Wonder what the future "flagship product" will be.

pcryder
Check this post from Sound on Sound.  
https://www.soundonsound....s/cakewalk-sonar-lives
 
Note this paragraph from the article:
Current SONAR users needn't worry about cross-grade pricing either. In a post on the Cakewalk forums, Meng Kuok has stated that "our steadfast goal is that former SONAR owners (of all versions) will not need to spend any money to cross-over/cross-grade to the future flagship product."
 
Wonder what the future "flagship product" will be.

Interesting that you would mention that. Here's the thing, I'm just a cakewalk user who wants what they have paid for, meaning activate my software when I need to without having to worry about somebody holding me HOSTAGE to do so in the future. And by that I mean, I OWN SONAR PLATINUM/License that is. There were VARIOUS licensed versions of Sonar be it Platinum or Pro or Artist or the Home version and such. The thing is, considering that fact, activating the software being an owner of the license "Which the new owners of the code are NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AS STATED WHEN THEY SAY THEY AQUIRED THE CODED AND MORE OR LESS MEANS NO FAULT CLAUSE WHERE THEY ARE NOT TIED TO ANY AGREEMENTS CAKEWALK HAD PREVIOUSLY WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS".   Understandably so. 

But this excitement means nothing to me if I am sitting here and my system fails and I have to buy a new one and try and install my CAKEWALK SOFTWARE and use Command center only to find a message saying "THE MIGRATION PROCESS NO LONGER WORKS, YOU MAY PURCHASE A NEW LICENSE HERE HTTP ETC....... ". 
 
How about a promise to HONOR ALREADY PURCHASED LICENSES, THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. 
It would not COST THEM ANYTHING except for the activation servers. 
 
Either way................ Probably get banned for my comments, I shouldn't be because I am simply asking questions. 
 
Ya know, what might be SIMPLE FOR SOME or COST WORTHY is NOT SO MUCH SIMPLE FOR OTHERS LIKE ME. I have a license for Sonar Platinum and the plugins, I would like to know if I can activate them via COMMAND CENTER or Some other way in the future, and that is what I am asking. 
 
 

Well, no one knows for sure what the future holds, but the owner of BandLab did say this in the Hello from BandLab thread:
 
Quick note as it was asked about in another thread - the reason why I am not using the word SONAR when referring to the new flagship product is not because it's planned to be a different product, it's just that we're doing the legal/brand work to make sure calling it that would be the right thing to do and wouldn't cause any confusion in the market given the circumstances over the last couple of months. You can take it to mean "future version of SONAR, or whatever it might be called". 

Folks who want to stick with 2017.09 may very well lose out. I foresee the activation servers being shut down, with the rider that "you can migrate to the new BandLab SONAR for free".
 
However, that new version might be a) subscription, b) phone-home, c) etc in ways that the current 2017.09 SONAR is not.
 
It is not clear to me that Gibson/Cakewalk will come through with the offline activation method for folks who want to reinstall 2017.09 in the future. We will have to wait and see. 

Christ on a bike. What you have here is the biggest glimmer of hope since the announcement last November and yet the perpetually aggrieved (typically the people who wrongly believe they "own" the software they use) are still whining. My head hurts. 

Whatever happens, the alternative -abandonware- is the least desirable option.
I can understand owners with a Lifetime Subscription (like myself) wondering if that subscription will be honored, but even if it's not and we get an existing users discount on the next incarnation of Sonar, it's STILL better than the alternative.

Serious_Noize!
How about a promise to HONOR ALREADY PURCHASED LICENSES, THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. 
It would not COST THEM ANYTHING except for the activation servers. 

That is exactly what they have said.  I re-posted it on the previous page just 3 post above yours....
 

Serious_Noize!
Either way................ Probably get banned for my comments, I shouldn't be because I am simply asking questions. 

You're asking questions that have already been answered...  read the posts...

sharke
Christ on a bike. What you have here is the biggest glimmer of hope since the announcement last November and yet the perpetually aggrieved (typically the people who wrongly believe they "own" the software they use) are still whining. My head hurts. 
 
Mega Dog Dittos to that

ptheisen
Well, no one knows for sure what the future holds, but the owner of BandLab did say this in the Hello from BandLab thread: 

BandLab's owner knows exactly what the future HOLDS, and saying HELLO means MORE THAN YOU MAY EVER KNOW. Saying HELLO means absolutely NOTHING except that he or she promises to make some money for themselves or share holders apart of their entity and or such things etc... I think it was probably somebody other than the owner who made the announcement, because int his day and age you can easily post videos, but I guess business wise to say anything in a video can't be fought in court where WORDS or assurances go when it comes to actions and business and such things. 
 
As per your "WELL NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS" . : For example : They just purchased the RIGHTS to all your purchase and personal information that you have ever had with Cakewalk and the forums, and your replies and comments and everything else. 
 
So saying : "Oh Happy DAY all is well" is not a good mind set when it comes to the current status as a customer for this software SONAR such as you or me. In my feeble opinion. 
 
All I want to know as everyone else is a few SIMPLE question ........ LOOK : BANDLAB :
 
1 : " What is the END date for using Cakewalk Command Center?"
 
2 : "Having our downloaded install files for cakewalk software that we already own, and having the REGISTRATION Codes, how can we activate them without a SERVER to do so in the future? We paid for the software, 
 
3 : I have absolutely nothing against the Bandilab owner or the company, I wish them the best because Cakewalk was history and that's how it was at the time. All I want is to have a few questions answered here for everyone to see who purchased the former OWNERS CAKEWALK SOFTWARE. While I realize there could be legal hurdles in such a situation. There really is not. And by that I mean : CAN WE CONTINUE TO ACTIVATE OUR CAKEWALK SOFTWARE THAT WE HAVE NOW AS IS THROUGH COMMAND CENTER OR DOWNLOADED FILES FROM OUR ACCOUNTS???????????? AND IF SO FOR HOW LONG????????????????
It is very simple. And I doubt that question will get answered. 
 
Those are my questions and my thoughts on the subject, regardless of WHAT YOU MIGHT READ, if you don't know for sure what the answers are PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO ME, let the people who just purchased do so. 
 
 
 

Karyn

Serious_Noize!
How about a promise to HONOR ALREADY PURCHASED LICENSES, THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. 
It would not COST THEM ANYTHING except for the activation servers. 

That is exactly what they have said.  I re-posted it on the previous page just 3 post above yours....
 

Serious_Noize!
Either way................ Probably get banned for my comments, I shouldn't be because I am simply asking questions. 

You're asking questions that have already been answered...  read the posts...

No I am not asking question that have already been answered, read my last reply in this thread.