It is developed and published under a free subscription licensing model by BandLab Technologies of Singapore for the Microsoft Windows platform.

After 30 years of operation, Cakewalk, Inc. was dissolved in November 2017 by its parent company, Gibson Brands.

BandLab continues to maintain the old Cakewalk, Inc. licensing servers as a courtesy to owners of legacy products.

It was followed by monthly bug fixes and stability updates, and by the fourth release new features began to be added.

In order to download and install the package and add-ons (which include the Cakewalk Studio Instruments bundle, Cakewalk Theme Editor, and a trial version of Celemony Melodyne), the user must first create an account at BandLab’s website, then download and run either the web installer or BandLab Assistant.