I was late to the party compared to a lot of you guys - my first CW product ☺️
My circuitous route to Cakewalk By BandLab:
I started with Guitar Tracks 2 before quickly moving on to Guitar Tracks 3 Pro.
I ventured into MIDI with Music Creator 4, before upgrading to the wonderful Home Studio 4 and then Home Studio 6.
After so many of us were disappointed with Home Studio 7 (which CW used as a guinea pig implementing a very early and basic version of the Skylight interface), CW generously offered HS7 users a cheap upgrade to SONAR 8 Studio - which I gratefully accepted!
I soon moved up to SONAR 8 Producer (I loved 8.3) before upgrading via every X-Pro version up to and including the short-lived 'lifetime' SONAR Platinum.
Many thanks to BandLab for keeping our beloved DAW afloat (and let us not forget – so extensively backward-compatible) ?