Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
I think you can all be confident that not only will SONAR live on but that it will evolve in ways we didn't imagine. Thank you Meng and BandLab for making Cakewalk walk again!
 

Welcome back Noel!  Your move to the new team is awesome news!
 
P.S. your guitar tracks on BandLab are cool! 

michael diemer
Meng, please tell me that Sonar will continue to have a Staff View. And an Event List. And a Console View. And so on. The great strength of Sonar is that it has all these different ways of doing things. No other DAW has this.

Apart from the ones which do...

Anyway, it’s great someone has decided Sonar is worth investing in and continuing development. I’ve thought for many years that it’s the best Windows DAW there is. Though those who, unlike me, use the staff view might be made even happier if it gets the reworking and de-bugging it’s needed for a very long time. Same with ACT and the Matrix view.

And for those of us no longer using Windows, any chance of re-activating the Sonar for Mac project? >:-)

A great introduction that gives those of us on here hope for the future of Sonar and this superb forum. The very best of luck to everyone involved.

About the best news possible.

Welcome aboard Meng!   Blues.....now I'm impressed!  

I'm delighted to hear this news, and especially pleased that Noel will be involved in the product moving forward.
 
I've been a Cakewalk user since Pro Audio 7 and although I've used other DAWs, nothing comes close to it for me.
 
Like many of you, I took advantage of the lifetime updates and in my case, I paid for this only a month after paying for another years' full subscription. Although I was gutted to hear the news in November, I don't feel cheated in any way - if my small contribution helped towards paying an extra month of one of the bakers' bills, it was money well spent.
 
Software as good as Sonar deserves to live on, and I'm happy to pay my way for future upgrades.
 
Here's looking forward to seeing what the future holds!
 
M.

Ahhh ... very interesting. 
Welcome aboard the forum and thank you for sharing the info.

It seemed ridiculous that a great mature program like Sonar Platinum would simply fade away and not be picked up by another quality company. My personal thanks to Meng and the good people at BandLab for having the intelligence to snatch it up and carry on. 
 
I've always dabbled with various recording programs, but Sonar provides everything I need in one package and has been way ahead of others when it comes to 64-bit, etc. It's great to know that Sonar will help us continue to make music far into the future. 
 
Your clear communication and your commitment to the product and the excellent group of people here on the forum are very much appreciated. 

Thank you for the post meng! 
You (and Mesh) made my day!
GREAT NEWS! I never gave up hope!

Thank you for your post. Being able to have some degree of access/conversations with the people behind the product has always been the most compelling reason to visit this forum. Long may it continue.
 
Speaking as someone who since the closure of Cakewalk has checked out the obvious rivals (as a back up plan in case I lost the ability to use Platinum at some point in the future) and saw no compelling reasons to make me want to change to any of them, I'm very much looking forward to hearing what the future holds for Sonar.*
 
 
* as long as it doesn't require monthly subscriptions, being online only or I-lok!