SONAR's visual displays included audio waveforms, musical scores, editing consoles, and event lists. The SONAR digital audio workstation provided users the ability to create projects in which they could edit digital audio tracks, MIDI tracks, and associated information like lyrics and music notation. With the addition of more features, the company renamed the sequencer Cakewalk Pro, and then Cakewalk Pro Audio when it gained support for digitized audio. Įarly 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. In 1991, they released a version for Windows 3.0. The company released the original MIDI music sequencer product, Cakewalk, for MS-DOS in 1987. To avoid confusion, the company operated for many years as 'Twelve Tone Systems, Inc.

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. Greg Hendershott founded the company in 1987 as Twelve Tone Systems, Inc., and was its CEO until July 1, 2012.

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