I'm really pleased that they've bought Sonar, it means the product has a future. 
 
I have a lot of older projects in Sonar so knowing that it will still be supported is great.
 

Fingers, toes and (all other appendages crossed) that this means Sonar customers will have some easy transition into Bandlab - I'm a Lifetimer, and I can only hope that aidanodr is right. I'd hate to have to 'buy' the product again just to guarantee functionality.
At least the waiting game is over! 

Congratulations to everyone involved! I'm so happy to see this wonderful product (which I'm proud to have helped build), carry on.

This is great news I guess and a bit concerning though. Have started to move on to Studio One and really like. Projects were pretty easy to transfer over using the method that Sweetwater provided.  Certain things I will miss in Sonar like the staff view and a way to put chord changes on a Midi file. Will have to see what happens in the months to come. Hopefully it will be more good news and I hope that a lot of the Team from Cakewalk will be pulled in to work on the newer versions. 

I do have a Mono guitar case which is under BandLab. They are great. Cloud based music creation doesn’t excite me at all as cloud apps don’t work for me. I would not be excited to pay full cost for the next possible update of Sonar. Seems that would be another slap in the face to lifetimers, and not at all an enducement to reexplore a future Sonar line. So I will be interested to see how this all develops.

good luck everyone!

Sounds like Cakewalk will live on... nice!
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I hope that this is good news for Sonar, but I still have questions. 

Frankly, I am most concerned that Sonar Platinum will continue to be the innovative product it has always been.  I have and continue to use it as my main daw of choice.  Hopefully, they will be astute enough to also look into some of the fine programmers who were a part of Sonar and the Sonar progress.  Truth is that when a company buys a product like this they have only two options.  One is to continue development for the good of everyone or two is to relegate it to the backburner.  I do not see this company as the latter.  They appear progressive and certainly proactive.  I think it will ultimately be good for us all.  What can be better than that in the long run?

That's great news. It looks like a young and innovative company.