Consolidating music software. What do you think?

Now that Cakewalk SONAR is Cakewalk by BandLab, does it make sense that Cakewalk by BandLab is the main item on Equipboard, and all SONARs be considered older versions of it?

To me it depends on how much the "feel" of it has remained the same. Has anyone used Cakewalk by BandLab? Is it just a rebrand for now? I haven't played with it, but it seems to be Windows-only and free to download.

Great question.

I poked around a bit this evening. Everything I've read gives the impression that Cakewalk by BandLab is really just the final version of Sonar Platinum re-released under it's new owner's brandname, and with some bundled extras that involved third party licenses removed... and an integration with Bandlab added in. Even if the product looks and feels nothing like Sonar a year from now, the fact that the first Bandlab release was essentially the Sonar Platinum codebase back from the dead would be enough to qualify the Bandlab version as part of the same branch/continuity/timeline, IMHO. Smush 'em all into one, I say.

Anyone who actually owns Sonar is welcome to chime in and counter. I've never been a Cakewalk license holder.

https://cdm.link/2018/04/cakewalk-sonar-windows-back-free/

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039253773-What-are-the-differences-between-Cakewalk-by-BandLab-and-other-legacy-Sonar-DAWs-

I used a student version of SONAR for a production class back in high school. I've yet to try Bandlab's version.

A similar question is to be asked of Emagic Logic and Apple Logic Pro. Right now I have it set so that Logic Pro is a newer version and users are directed to the purchase link for Logic Pro.

Cakewalk, Logic and Cubase go back so far you need to specify a bit.... pre SX cubase is its own thing as are pre-apple logic and pre-sonar cakewalk, they were riginally just sequencers.... cubase added limited recording functionality first as far as I kow.