We are very excited by the potential of Cakewalk by BandLab and think that many creators will benefit from access to a professional DAW with a long history of empowering music makers.”Ĭakewalk by BandLab will continue SONAR’s track record of world-leading innovation for creatives using Microsoft Windows. Professional products like Cakewalk are essential to those who make their living in music production and the natural next step for musicians who use platforms like BandLab to simplify their creative and collaborative process. This is part of our ongoing effort to empower musicians to make and share their music around the world. 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. The revived DAW includes all core premium features of SONAR Platinum such as the award-winning Skylight user interface, flexible ProChannel modules, and powerful end-to-end 64-bit mix engine.ĬEO of BandLab Technologies, Meng Ru Kuok said, “We are excited to be able to continue development of SONAR in its new guise as Cakewalk by BandLab and have an aggressive feature development roadmap ahead. The new successor to the legendary DAW is available to download for free now at. This highly anticipated product release follows BandLab Technologies’ announcement just last month that it had acquired all of Cakewalk’s IP and certain assets from Gibson Brands. SINGAPORE, 4 APRIL 2018 - Today, BandLab Technologies launched early access to ‘ Cakewalk by BandLab’ – replacing SONAR, the iconic DAW developed by Cakewalk Inc. Early access to Cakewalk by BandLab is available now on Windows.Full authentication and unlimited feature-access will be available free.World-leading DAW SONAR, with the entire SONAR Platinum feature set, is relaunching as Cakewalk by BandLab.SONAR relaunches as ‘Cakewalk by BandLab’: Iconic DAW now free to download for everyone

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