Not allowing license transfer is illegal in Europe, revealing after payment unfair

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To say the least, revealing the impossibility of license transfers only after the purchase is unfair.
More so: I asked Cakewalk customer support via email if license transfer is possible since there was no info on their homepage. No reply. Very friendly, thank you.

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In Europe any such limitation brought to the attention of the buyer after he or she paid is ineffective even if it was otherwise legal.

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Not allowing license transfers of software is illegal in Europe in the first place.

Jeez, just don't buy Cakewalk then.

I ain't no lawyer but I think if you buy a downloadable product you are stuck w/ the laws that apply in the country of purchase.  Feel free to "sell" your 2nd hand software to someone else, tho they won't be able to register it.

FYI, I have never seen a post critical of Cake software get "deleted." Some have been locked or removed when they strayed into politics/religion.  It seems that you have had a bad experience w/ some product of Cake's.  Perhaps an explaination of your difficulties would get some of the users here to help.  And the mods stop by sometimes - you'll might get an answer or help if you've tried support to no avail (btw - have you checked your spam box?).  But threatening threads headers ain't the way to do it.

You are wasting allot of energy worrying about it ; Really , if you're not happy with rapture then you're not going to be happy with any softsynth really ...You could do so much worse than having ti keep such a great product !!  Stict to vendors who alow transfers please ... don't be a rebel without a cause !! Rapture will get by fine without you and it's your loss !!! ( + you will always pine for her , and , she's mine !!! stay away you Fakka !!!)   You are not a true synth whore when RAPTURE isn't in your stable !!!!  Go away Flea !!!! 

Or I'll send my EULA to straighten you out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  : - )

plec,

I looked at the thread.  For $99 is a no brainer if you need a general purpose synth.

frosch,

it is a great soft synth for just about anything you want to do synth wise.  It is a good, clean sharp synth and the expansion packs are packed w/ wierd presets.  It is fairly easy to program, esp. if you stick to one element before heading out to multi sounds.  It ain't a gm synth to replicate horns and such, if that is what you are looking for, but it makes synth and keyboard sounds.

there are a lot of other presets/sounds available - one of the members here sampled a couple of hundred old analog synths and made the sfz files available.

The only other synth I use on everything is alchemy, which has a "thicker" (if that makes any sense) sound.  It is considerably more expensive.

I'm pretty sure you can download both the intel and mac versions, to answer your kvr question.  Cake is a little slow answering tech requests, but that is pretty much par for the course unless you know who to talk to or a small developer is checking his mail every night.

Really, it is a great synth, esp. for that money and I have a ton of them.  I really don't know what you expect from Cakewalk - a fully functioning version to demo before you might send in your money?  No one does that.  If you can't get a sense of what this synth is about and its programablity (even w/ a reduced sound set) I don't know how you are going to ever make a decision to buy any softsynth out there.

Good luck.

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plec,

I looked at the thread.  For $99 is a no brainer if you need a general purpose synth.

frosch,

it is a great soft synth for just about anything you want to do synth wise.  It is a good, clean sharp synth and the expansion packs are packed w/ wierd presets.  It is fairly easy to program, esp. if you stick to one element before heading out to multi sounds.  It ain't a gm synth to replicate horns and such, if that is what you are looking for, but it makes synth and keyboard sounds.

there are a lot of other presets/sounds available - one of the members here sampled a couple of hundred old analog synths and made the sfz files available.

The only other synth I use on everything is alchemy, which has a "thicker" (if that makes any sense) sound.  It is considerably more expensive.

I'm pretty sure you can download both the intel and mac versions, to answer your kvr question.  Cake is a little slow answering tech requests, but that is pretty much par for the course unless you know who to talk to or a small developer is checking his mail every night.

Really, it is a great synth, esp. for that money and I have a ton of them.  I really don't know what you expect from Cakewalk - a fully functioning version to demo before you might send in your money?  No one does that.  If you can't get a sense of what this synth is about and its programablity (even w/ a reduced sound set) I don't know how you are going to ever make a decision to buy any softsynth out there.

Good luck.

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I get the argument. I just don`t agree completely.
I am accusing Cakewalk of running an unfair policy but I still want to be fair and not advocate other companies` products in this thread.
I do think however that there are more versatile synths in the market for 99-150€.
Other manufacturers choose more realistic demo limitations. Being interrupted and distracted every 15 seconds is a bit too much.