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I'll give that a shot. Since I purchased the Sonar Platinum, which meant I would get all the upgrades for free, do I still get the upgrades for free?
SONAR Platinum was a Gibson/Cakewalk product. Gibson shut down Cakewalk in Nov 2017. SONAR is no longer being developed. Gibson sold Cakewalk assets to BandLab. Several of the Cakewalk staff were hired by BandLab and they released a new product based on Platinum called Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB). Effectively it started with the unreleased 2017-11 version of Platinum and has been updated monthly since the announcement in April 2018.
So far, only the "Platinum" Core and a few plug-ins have been released. This is what constitutes the free version of CbB. You will need to retain your Platinum installation to have access to all the plug-ins that were bundled with Platinum. CbB is free to all.
The installation instructions for CbB are
here.
BandLab purchased Rapture Pro too. BandLab has mentioned releasing their version of a synth based on Rapture Pro but I do not expect to see them releasing the old Dimension Pro or Rapture. FWIW, Gibson Cakewalk had no plans to update Dimension Pro or Rapture either. In fact, the two synths have not been updated in years.