TDFKAS = The DAW Formally Known As SONAR.

The DAW Formerly Known As Sonar
 
(from Meng's top post)
 
edit: great job Wookiee!

I am very excited to see what BandLab has in store for us. :)

Good to hear from you Meng!  

hey Meng, i have a question
 
what about the Steam version of Sonar (or TDFKAS, i suppose :P)? i'm guessing Steam users were a rather small portion of Sonar users, but it would be nice to be able to continue to use "whatever-comes-next" on Steam still ... honestly - i don't even care about lifetime passes all that much ... but i do care about having the new one on Steam (i mean, obviously ... if i didn't, i would've bought it somewhere else, and probably much cheaper too) - even just for the easy update process alone (... and having all the addons as DLC etc. etc.) 

no to mention other stuff like z3ta, all the plugins and loops that were being sold as DLC for Sonar etc.

it's bad enough image-line went through Steam Greenlight (and got accepted) back in the day and then proceeded to completely ignore steam because "we'll put it on steam when the sales slow down" (i'm paraphrasing but that's basically what their argumentation was) ... i need at least one DAW on steam, goddammit! ;)
 
with all that being said - the Steam version did have almost 10,000 users and i do realize that's probably not that many, but it would be nice of you guys to not just tell all of those people (myself included) to go somewhere else (as in - download some other client or something for the new one) from now on
 
thanks in advance for the reply

meng
 
Before that happens though, as part of the preparation for product relaunch we’ll be sending everyone who previously registered a Cakewalk account a request to sign up for a BandLab account. It’s free, it’s secure and it doesn’t mean you are obliged to use BandLab's social music platform features (although there are plenty of good collaboration options and other features in there  - you can read more about them here).
 
Signing up for a new legacy Cakewalk account is no longer available and for those who have accounts, the reason for this is that we will be tagging your Cakewalk ID to your new BandLab account as we migrate databases and wind down the legacy server. Starting very soon, your BandLab account will be what you use to authenticate and activate TDFKAS and replaces the old Cakewalk account. As part of feature development, it will also bring more features and services to your Cakewalk experience in the future should you choose to use them.

We decided to do it this way (opt-in) instead of auto-creating an account for everyone because we didn't want to force a new user account on anyone - we apologise that it's a little bit extra work but we hope that you understand! It's important to note that in order to ensure you get the right upgrade or crossgrades in future, you'll need to sign up for BandLab with the same email you used for your Cakewalk products.
 

 
First, thank you very much for the 21/03/2018 update. I see this as good news.
 
Second, I had used my Facebook related email when I signed onto BandLab earlier. I've updated to the proper email I associate with my Cakewalk products. 
 
 

So good to see Meng still engaging with us here after everything that has gone before on this thread. Looking forward to see where we are going.

I just went to verify my email used for cakewalk before setting up a Bandlab account.   I must have used my gmail account when I set up the forum profile.  I tried to change it to my verizon account, (that I use way more), and it said that it was already used with another account and can't be updated.  I know I got occasional emails from cakewalk to my verizon account. 
I wonder why this is happening.  Any ideas?

tubeydude
I just went to verify my email used for cakewalk before setting up a Bandlab account.   I must have used my gmail account when I set up the forum profile.  I tried to change it to my verizon account, (that I use way more), and it said that it was already used with another account and can't be updated.  I know I got occasional emails from cakewalk to my verizon account. 
I wonder why this is happening.  Any ideas?

You probably set up the account under both at some point. I had to contact support a while back to consolidate to one email. I set up my account way back when I had a different ISP and thus a different email address. That ISP closed rather suddenly and I was left with a lot of accounts out there I couldn't change (like MySpace - it was that long ago) because they would send an email to the old address to ask for verification for the changes. I got Cakewalk Support to fix my account to use the new email address. (MySpace Support wasn't helpful at all in this).

He said precisely the opposite, the names will not continue, but the product will.