became President of Cakewalk, Inc. On December 6, 2013, Roland sold all of its shares of Cakewalk to Gibson Brands. For the next 4 years, Cakewalk continued to operate in Boston, developing products for the Cakewalk brand, along with joint products with TASCAM. On November 17, 2017, Gibson announced that it was ceasing active development and production of Cakewalk branded products. After 30 years, Cakewalk, Inc. ceased operation, with only the company's web forum and license authorization servers still being kept functional. On February 23, 2018, Singapore-based BandLab Technologies announced its purchase of some of Cakewalk, Inc.’s assets and all of its intellectual property. 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. Products The company's products included sequencers; digital audio workstations, including the current Cakewalk by Bandlab, and former products Dimension Pro and Rapture Pro (Multisample synth); and instruments, effects tools and miscellaneous consumer products for creating music. See also List of music software References External links Official website The Cakewalk Blog Cakewalk by BandLab Software companies based in Massachusetts Companies based in Boston Defunct software companies of the United States American companies established in 1997 Privately held companies based in Massachusetts Information technology companies of the United States 1997 establishments in Massachusetts Software companies established in 1997