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.” 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. This is part of our ongoing effort to empower musicians to make and share their music around the world.CEO 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. '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.

Cakewalk by bandlab is free