iRelevant
I'm still not able to confirm my e-mail on BandLab, hopefully this won't be a problem moving forward. 
(I never received a e-mail with a verification link when joining BandLab, and nothing happens when I click the "Resend confirmation email" link in the app. Apart from that everything works fine).

Check you entered your email address correctly.. (stupid suggestion I know...  but.. well...)
The email they send to you has a "no_reply" address,  check that your ISP or your own spam filter isn't blocking it..
 
Their system is working, I just did this procedure myself and it took seconds.
 

Well this is a shock....email received today from Bandlab....watch this space?
Was seriously missing Sonar after living in 'other' worlds. Hoping this is good news.

I just got the invite to Bandland today.  I did sign up for an account.  I must have been under a rock as this is the first I've heard of Cakewalk being sold.
 
I'm not sure how I feel about it.  I recently went back to Sonar 8.5 from X1 and am loving it.  I will wait and see.

Account created

Does this mean I will need a BandLab account to authorize the DAW known as SONAR?

mister happy
Does this mean I will need a BandLab account to authorize the DAW known as SONAR?

Kind off.

If you read the email, they have said they will be running down the Cakewalk servers and transferring and linking our old Cakewalk accounts with our Bandlab accounts.

mister happy
Does this mean I will need a BandLab account to authorize the DAW known as SONAR?

AFAICT, yes. Basically, it seems the servers will go down at some point in the near future, and the only way to access your account will be through BandLab credentials.
 
My concern for this announcement is that it was made as an opt-in feature vice automatic database migration, especially since we have had issues in the past with email distributions. Since all products affected are also available through CCC, a simple update to that program would accommodate people more efficiently. The CCC application can tap into whatever database it is scripted to using more than one set of credentials (numerous apps allow Facebook, LinkedIn, local, etc.). If this forum also moves as announced, there is going to be a subset of owners left out in the cold from this, especially if the opt in period has an endpoint (i.e., Cakewalk customers roll off into non-customers).
 
Does this opt-in period have an end point with the understanding that many customers 1) do not read the forums regularly, 2) could easily miss a one-off email, and 3) may not even think about their old Cakewalk account until a year from today?

lashman
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.

 
One more vote for the return of TDFKAS to Steam Platform. o/

It seems like it would be more straightforward to simply something like “if you want to authorize your old SONAR license you need to sign up with our social media website”. I am not especially interested in the TSFKAS but would like to keep my SONAR running.

Not sure if anyone can help me with this but here goes. I received the email from BandLab saying I should sign up with my original email, my problem is I am switching internet providers tomorrow and will have a new email address. I'm not sure if this will affect any emails I would need to get from Bandlab or anything else for that matter. I would have preferred to be able to change to my new email address now within sonar, but they are saying we must use the original email address.