Coming home, firing up the computer and seeing all of the new messages on the forum I was worried it was bad news. Instead, the announcement by BandLab of purchasing and continuing the development of SONAR is really, really good news. And as others have said before, Thank You for stepping in and keeping this fine piece of software not just in production, but announcing that the plan is continued improvement.
 
I do want to say one thing Noel - you told us to keep the faith when things looked bleak. You were absolutely right. I want to thank you for your insight during that time. I also want to thank you for the work you have done both as developer and a leader with SONAR, and I look forward to the good work I know you and the other bakers will continue to do.
 
Life Is Good!

Great news! I was hoping this would happen! Thank you Meng! I like you already!

@meng First order of business... can we please move the forum software over to XenForo? APG is just beyond terrible. :P

I await with enthusiasm and caution...I, too, had decided that I needed to stop generating my content/music on a platform that could within a year or so, be dead with "the next Windows 10 upgrade"
I went ahead and grabbed the Samplitude offer...but that DAW just doesn't connect with me, although SoundForge is probably worth what I paid and it is awesome. 
I have been learning/using Reaper increasingly (there is now a plugin to port over my SONAR Projects which I'm doing) and it's a pretty good DAW. I'm more efficient with it but there are more than a few features that I miss from SONAR. I would probably happily come back if I thought that Cakewalk would reliably return, but with each week I get more comfortable with Reaper. 

I knew that Cake could get out of this situation. But frankly I was surprised they got away from Gibson faster than I imagined. I thought you might have heard of something only between April and May 2018.

I thank Bandlab with all my heart for solving this problem. I'm looking forward to seeing the next shots that Cakewalk will make, I'm expecting a more aggressive Cakewalk willing to challenge competitors beyond the Windows system. Very, very pleased with that. Know that I'm using Sonar every day!

WELCOME BACK CAKEWALK AND WELCOME BANDLAB THAT THIS PARTNER BECOMES SOMETHING GIANT

Thank you Meng and Bandlab, for helping to keep great software like Cakewalk / Sonar alive. I know this doesn’t happen for free and I’m ready to do my part.

Again, thank you!

T

I can't even begin to tell you how happy this makes me.  

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]

metz
Awesome News! And while I have the attention of the Masters of the Universe at BadLab/Cakewalk.Dont forget to make the next flagship Product able to scale properly to high resolution screens. :-D
 
/M

You might get your wish. That's one of Ben's favorite areas :)

Noel I remember when I came here to tell people that who was broken was Gibson and a hater tried to say that the problem was Cakewalk. You came and agreed and clarified things and left everyone optimistic about the future. Thank you Noel, we are ready for new products and upgrades. Very anxiously you burned the tongues of opportunistic competitors who were desperate to catch Cake fans. Very, very happy that everything was solved very fast! You guys are awesome, and Sonar will always be my favorite Daw. That was the best news of the last months. My heart was broken, but now I feel like I've gained a new heart...
 
CAKE IS LIVE FOREVER! 

Thank you for saving us all!!!

I have no idea how this is going to unfold. I hope it unfolds well. But I'm very glad to hear that Noel and Ben have a hand in it. Shame things didn't pan out for Cakewalk as a whole, and all its staff.

But to me as an end user, the saddest thing of all was the idea that this huge 30 year development project with contributions from developers past and present was just going to be thrown away. Cakewalk is literally as old as Windows itself, and I felt like I was watching a wonderful old building being knocked down for no good reason. I'm glad it's going to stay up. Whether I like the refurb is an open question, but it's a project that has all my goodwill.