Good news indeed !!!
Cakewalk lives 🎉🎉😎

Good news!  Sonar lives!
 
At least now we will have somebody to keep the product activation servers running, so we can continue to install and use the products we have paid for.
 
I am fairly sure that any future support and upgrades from Bandlab will require payment, as nobody works for free.

I am encouraged by this news. I do hope that BandLab can release that one final update and some fixes as an acknowledgement of the existing paid customers - offer us a bone, so to speak. I like that BandLab is enthusiastic about bringing the world of music together, enabling content creation, sharing, and discussion.

They already have a free online DAW, so Cakewalk SONAR technology could be partially or entirely folded into that, though I hope the main SONAR product continues to exist as a product. The challenge I saw was that something like a DAW the scope of SONAR really needs a full ecostructure to exist within. Does BandLab have a place to provide that. 

I hope we see some involvement by BandLab here in the forums.

Just an additional thought.... should BandLab try to buy something like TASCAM, too? The interfaces and recording technology of someone like TASCAM could be tied into SONAR (or vise versa) to fill out the ecosystem (which is the word I was looking for and couldn't find in that previous post).
 

In researching BandLab, I can’t quite figure out how they make their revenue?

bodhi65
In researching BandLab, I can’t quite figure out how they make their revenue?

That is a valid question. Advertising? I haven't joined their community yet, so I haven't seen their community.
 

BandLab Technologies is a collective of global music brands with a vision to connect the world of music.
Together, our brands share a passion.

I have insufficient English to understand what that means
From what I can understand, they have someone who can write applets and web apps.
 
Most probably they have payed for asserts. In this case at least they have some money and that is positive.
 
Are they sufficiently fit to return Sonar into the game? Till there is an evidence that can be true, I am pessimistic.

Wonderful,
 
(and let's see what will happen).
 
Giorgio

Just have one thing to say, NEVER heard of them :). I consider myself switched on and plugged in.. oh well. Good news for the bakers hopefully anyway.

I don't expect them to honor the lifetime updates, but I'll be darned if I have to buy another full version of this product again. I really hope they give their pre-existing customers a deep discount.
 
I've been trying 4 or 5 different DAW's and I'm about this close to pulling the trigger on Studio One. I might still do it while the cross-grade is available just because it's actually really good. I just miss all the plugins that are restricted to my Sonar purchase.