It was followed by monthly bug fixes and stability updates, and by the fourth release new features began to be added. The first release of Cakewalk by BandLab was on Apand was restricted to bug fixes planned for SONAR, as well as string and art changes to reflect the name change from SONAR to Cakewalk by BandLab. The current Cakewalk by BandLab is descended directly from the SONAR code base as acquired by BandLab. In addition to acquiring the intellectual property from Cakewalk, Inc., BandLab also hired former CTO Noel Borthwick and Senior Software Engineer Ben Staton (among other former Cakewalk staff) to continue development of the code. licensing servers as a courtesy to owners of legacy products. BandLab continues to maintain the old Cakewalk, Inc. BandLab's stated goal was continued development of the former company's flagship product, SONAR (now renamed Cakewalk by BandLab) as part of its portfolio of freeware digital audio workstation software. In February 2018, BandLab Technologies announced that it had purchased all of Cakewalk, Inc.’s intellectual property and some of its assets. At this time, Gibson ceased all development and support of Cakewalk software with only the licensing and support forum servers kept running. was dissolved in November 2017 by its parent company, Gibson Brands. After 30 years of operation, Cakewalk, Inc.

SONAR was the final flagship product of Cakewalk, Inc. It is developed and published under a free subscription licensing model by BandLab Technologies of Singapore for the Microsoft Windows platform. English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Russianĭigital audio workstation, Music sequencerĬakewalk by BandLab is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation software package for audio and MIDI composing, recording, arranging, editing, mixing and mastering.

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