A lot going on in the world of CakeWalk at present, as well as the new Roland made, Cakewalk badged audio hardware that will be hitting the street this year, there's a new Free Update to CakeWalk's flagship DAW. -Sonar 8.5.3 - focuses on the AudioSnap 2.0, with various workflow, timing and other enhancements.
The SONAR 8.5.3 AudioSnap Update includes:
Improved stability
Improved rendering quality and functionality
Improved tempo detection algorithm and new option to set clip tempo to original project tempo
Improved Clip Tempo Maps functionality
New resolution settings to set tempo changes on every beat, measure or clip
Auto stretch mode added to Clip Follows Project command, emulates AudioSnap auto-stretch behavior
New Extract Groove and Apply Groove buttons to match the groove of one clip to another
Revisions that turned synths into brand new machines