Sonar Lives - Your Questions Answered

Bandlab has taken on Cakewalk/Sonar IP (and some assets). They have already put up a new website.
 
Here are some of the most important Q & As;
 
Will anyone from the original Cakewalk development team be joining BandLab?
Absolutely. More details will be shared soon.
 
Is the old website still relevant or active?
No. Certain features on www.cakewalk.com may still work, but we are now in a migration process to ensure everything that has been acquired will be safely transferred as well as archiving the old site onto a legacy subdomain.
 
Will the Cakewalk forums continue to be available?
Yes! The Cakewalk forums are valuable resources for bakers as well as other professionals in the music community. We plan on keeping the peer-to-peer forums active.
 
I’m an existing or old SONAR user and have questions about my old account or subscription or want a refund.
BandLab Technologies did not acquire the operating company of Cakewalk Inc., only the complete set of intellectual property, patents, trademarks and certain assets necessary or related to the entire Cakewalk product suite. 

For users of Cakewalk from before 21st February 2018 – please refer to the original Gibson/Cakewalk announcement FAQ here.

I'm using studio one in my studio, but in my music classroom I'm using sonar still.
I'm enjoying many things about studio one, but missing many things about sonar.
I have no problem paying for and using both moving forward.

Mesh

35mm

I wonder how many Sonar users have permanently gone elsewhere now though.

Time for another poll?

lol no, never again!

interesting... had no plans on going anywhere just yet, so I'll be here on watch hoping things continue to get better for us.

Potentially great news! I've migrated to Samplitude (still considering Studio One), but I have 20 years with SONAR, and if Bandlab does a good job I'd much prefer to stay with SONAR.

I only have one question, considering they are saying :
 
"BandLab Technologies did not acquire the operating company of Cakewalk Inc., only the complete set of intellectual property, patents, trademarks and certain assets necessary or related to the entire Cakewalk product suite. ".
 
Does this mean if I want to reactivate my Sonar Platinum and license through command center "Or the download files which I already have" in the future that I will have to purchase a new license through them considering they are basically saying in that statement that due to the no fault clause "I suspect" that they don't owe nobody nothing who were previous customers of cakewalk, not even a reactivate previous software if needed???
 
Anyone a lawyer or better in the know here? I would like to know more about this. The part about the certain aspect of Cakewalk.com not working gives me the impression and considering my previous question gives me the impression that if you don't have your Cakewalk software activated now, it may not be happen in the future. 
 
Like I said, I'm asking questions here, as I am sure others would like to know also....... 
 
 

So where's the activation code?

So is that part of the "Cakewalk organization" that BandLab did not acquire or part of the assets they did acquire? I'm not trying to be difficult. Just trying to figure out where we stand with the permanent activation process that a Cakewalk representative promised us in the past. 

Bandlab are going to continue development of Sonar (it may or may not be called Sonar).
Bandlab have stated that their intention is for all Sonar users (of any version) to move forward to the new Bandlab owned version for no charge.
 
That makes the future of authorising your current (or old) version of Sonar moot.

Actually, their official statement contradicts that:
 
"BandLab Technologies did not acquire the operating company of Cakewalk Inc., only the complete set of intellectual property, patents, trademarks and certain assets necessary or related to the entire Cakewalk product suite. 

For users of Cakewalk from before 21st February 2018 – please refer to the original Gibson/Cakewalk announcement FAQ here."

see http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3731449
 
edit: now refers to Noel's post

Very interesting. I will be happy to support both SONAR and Studio One as my primary tools.
Each has it's strengths, so I find this to be good news!

scook

Serious_Noize!
Does this mean if I want to reactivate my Sonar Platinum and license through command center "Or the download files which I already have" in the future that I will have to purchase a new license

no

That being the case, "NO" that is. Considering the impression I got : "Perhaps I misread?", but I got the impression that the new owners were no longer responsible for previous cakewalk licenses, meaning, they may say : "We will continue to do whatever", but until I see or hear them iron clad say : LOOK : "For those of you who currently own cakewalk licenses we will continue to : NOTE : MAINTAIN an activation process so that you do not lose your activation process OR LICENSE". 
 
While I get the part about the : Sure we will keep cakewalk going and rah rah rah stuff. 
 
The part about where they say : 
 
" Is the old website still relevant or active?
No. Certain features on www.cakewalk.com may still work, but we are now in a migration process to ensure everything that has been acquired will be safely transferred as well as archiving the old site onto a legacy subdomain."
 
RELEVANT being the key word and they said "NO". So, command Center and activation may be a no go according to that in the very near if not already future is what I am asking about??? 
 
Please do not speak unless you ACTUALLY KNOW FOR SURE what is going on. I don't mean to sound rude, but it's a question every cakewalk user would like to know.