Coming from X3e, I'm lovin' it!!  Thanks, Meng and the Bandlab-ers!  (is that a band?)

They are still Bakers IMO
(and it still cracks up Jonbouy AFAIK)

I can not tell if he's good or not. I can not get him out of demo mode. I followed all the instructions the support team gave me. I lost a lot of time yesterday and today installing and uninstalling the application. I give up ... Maybe they will release an update to correct this ....

scook
If you do not like the dark PRV, copy the TungstenTheme.fth from the SONAR 2017.10 program folder into C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes changing the file extension to .sth. You may also change the name of the file if you wish. Then load the theme in Cakewalk Preferences.
 
Also check the VST paths in Preferences along with the rest of preferences. This ls a new product and you have to set it up like one.

On my install, it had the Tunsten theme already installed, but it wasn't the default.  So check, it might already be there...
 
-d

No issues at all for me.  Took about ten minutes from bandlab login to opening it on my desktop.  It pulled preferences from Splat and found everything.  Very easy.

Cactus Music
Hate the new PVR--- I can't see the notes of the other tracks now. Toooo dark.
And all my Air VSt's are gone. Funny, they open just fine in Cubase and Mixbuss. 
It's kind of just Sonar with nothing excitingly new. 
I'm a bit disappointed.  
Not complaining, I see what they are trying to do and it's all good overall.,, just really not anything exiting for those of us who already have this. Wonderful for the rest who now get it all for free. 

I had that problem and felt a right fool when somebody told me to change the MIDI Track Icon colours to something brighter than black. Works a treat! Regarding missing VSTs, just point their locations at the new install via the Cakewalk Plu-In Manager and everything will work. it did for me. Runs sweet as a nut now. Very impressed

Has anyone tried to pull files from the cloud into Sonar...or was it the other way around?

My bad. I called it "Sonar". Goodbye Sonar...hello Cakewalk BandLab or is it BandLab Cakewalk? " Cakewalk by BandLab". Can we just call it Cakewalk?

Cactus Music
 
And all my Air VSt's are gone. Funny, they open just fine in Cubase and Mixbuss. 
 

Since I didn't see that addressed by anyone else, I was missing a lot of plugins too.  It does NOT import your VST locations.  It only puts the two most common 64bit VST locations in the settings.  You will need to go in and point it to the other locations as well.  I just opened my Sonar next to my Cakewalk and used Sonar as reference and created the new paths.  Took me just a few minutes. 

davehorch
On my install, it had the Tunsten theme already installed, but it wasn't the default.  So check, it might already be there...

I thought Tungsten was the default, at least that it was set that way after I installed CbC and before copying over a theme I created for SONAR. In CbB the Tungsten theme has the new dark PRV. The Tungsten theme in SONAR 2017.10 has a light PRV. Both work in CbC and one could swap out the theme in the program folder but I prefer to keep the program folder as installed and add themes in the user theme folder.