. cakewalk inc. formerly called twelve tone systems inc. type subsidiary industry software founded 1987 ; 29 years ago 1987 headquarters boston massachusetts united states area served worldwide products sonar music software parent gibson website cakewalk.com cakewalk inc. is a music production software company . based in boston massachusetts the company is best known product is their professional level digital audio workstation daw software sonar . sonar integrates multi track recording and editing of digital audio and midi . the company also offers a full range of music software products including pyro audio creator a digital music management program and dimension pro a virtual instrument . greg hendershott founded the company in 1987 as twelve tone systems inc. and was its ceo until 1 july 2012 . the firm soon found that most customers referred to it by the name of its initial product a midi music sequencer that hendershott had named cakewalk in reference to a movement of children s corner by claude debussy . to avoid confusion the company operated for many years as twelve tone systems inc. dba cakewalk . in september 2008 the company officially changed the corporate name to cakewalk inc. 1 previous to this in january 2008 the logo on the company s products but not the company name itself had changed to cakewalk by roland to reflect roland corporation s purchase of a majority interest in the company . 2 the sonar digital audio workstation provides users the ability to create projects in which they edit digital audio tracks midi tracks and associated information like lyrics and music notation . sonar displays a range of project information including audio waveforms musical scores editing consoles event lists . the operator can mix midi output and audio tracks down into a stereo . wav file format and burn that to an audio cd or publish it to other media formats . the company released the original midi music sequencer product cakewalk for ms dos . in 1991 they released a version for windows 3.0 . early cakewalk for dos versions up to 3.0 required the intelligent mode of the mpu 401 and so could not be used with product clones of the mpu 401 while later cakewalk versions since 4.0 relied on the dumb uart mode only . the company renamed the sequencer cakewalk pro at some point and then cakewalk pro audio when they added support for digitized audio . in 2009 cakewalk announced a new product line sonar v studio 700 and sonar v studio 100 . these became the flagship products in cakewalk s new line of hardware and software music production products . the next generation v studio line of products is modeled on roland s hardware cakewalk s sonar producer . effective 1 july 2012 greg hendershott resigned as ceo after 25 years with the company . michael hoover previously executive vice president of products became president effective 1 july 2012 . 3 on december 6th 2013 roland sold all their shares of cakewalk to gibson brands . cakewalk will continue to operate in boston developing products for the cakewalk brand along with joint products with tascam . contents 1 current cakewalk products 2 see also 3 references 4 external links current cakewalk products edit sequencers & digital audio workstations sonar platinum flagship daw sonar professional sonar artist sonar steam edition sonar x3 producer sonar x3 studio sonar x3 instruments dimension pro rapture z3ta 2 sfz studio instruments session drummer 3 pentagon square triangle effects sonitus fx suite boost 11 ca 2a leveling amplifier consumer products music creator pyro audio creator kinetic usb music pack most products have multiple versions see also edit list of music software references edit cakewalk announces corporate name change official press release 2 september 2008 . roland acquires majority of cakewalk by peter kirn . published 18 august 2008 by the create digital music blog . despite the impression given in this report s opening sentence only the product logo not the company name changed to cakewalk by roland . michael hoover named new president of cakewalk the cakewalk blog 25 june 2012 . external links edit official website sonar v studio homepage the cakewalk blog hd videos on cakewalk products videos on cakewalk project5 daw user site dimension synthesizer user site interview with founder and ceo greg hendershott 20 years on 12 november 2007 at create digital music blog . v t e gibson guitar corporation established 1902 founder orville gibson key figures orville gibson lloyd loar ted mccarty seth lover les paul henry juszkiewicz david harvey guitars electric current gibson eds 1275 es series explorer firebird flying v l 4 l 5 les paul moderne sg super 400 discontinued byrdland blueshawk citation corvus futura l6 s little lucille marauder nighthawk rd sonex spirit 335 s acoustic current j series dove hummingbird discontinued advanced jumbo b series chet atkins sst l 1 basses current grabber les paul bass thunderbird discontinued eb 0 eb 1 eb 2 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