

This was a sign of relief for many users now trying to consider their digital audio workstation options going into the future. This was sad news indeed for Cakewalk users around the world.įast forward to the thread ` BandLab Saves Cakewalk‘, where BandLab had announced the exciting news (in February 2018) that they had bought the complete set of intellectual property of Cakewalk. If you’re a digital audio workstation (DAW) user or visitor of this site, you might have been aware back in November 2017 via the thread ` Farewell Cakewalk Sonar‘, that Gibson – the owner of Cakewalk at that time had shockingly stopped production of this excellent digital audio workstation. The Digitial Audio Workstation (DAW) formerly known as Cakewalk Sonar, is now Cakewalk by BandLab – and it’s FREE!!Įdit: Skip to our latest Cakewalk by BandLab article which includes an easy-install guide. A complete stand-alone digital audio workstation for free. This is part of our ongoing effort to empower musicians to make and share their music around the world.Cakewalk by BandLab. "We are making the software completely free to use to ensure that anyone, regardless of their resources, technology or stage in their career, can have access to the highest level of professional music production tools.

Regardless, an "aggressive feature development roadmap" lies ahead of Cakewalk by Bandlab, CEO Kuok Meng Ru said in a press release. Sonar launched a Mac prototype in 2016, but there is no word yet on whether BandLab will be developing a Mac version. The Windows version is now available for download here. Now, BandLab has announced that it is relaunching the Sonar digital audio workstation (DAW) as a new free product: Cakewalk by BandLab. Earlier this year, we reported that BandLab, the Singaporean music tech company that has made headlines for its stake in Rolling Stone, had acquired music software company Cakewalk from Gibson, who had ceased development of the company's product Sonar last year.
