Not sure if this will be of interest to anyone here, but after Gibson shut down the entire Cakewalk brand, the rights to the software assets were sold to BandLab Technologies.
BandLab just released the premier Cakewalk DAW, Sonar Platinum, for free under the name "Cakewalk by BandLab". It is Windows-only.
Before switching to Mac, I used Sonar for all of my Hauptwerk projects.
More info here:
https://www.soundonsound.com/news/sonar-now-free-renamed-cakewalk-bandlabDownload available here:
https://cakewalk.bandlab.com/