The Et Cetera website now says:  

"Shipping from Et Cetera on Monday 15th October!" 

Can't be long now then.

Bristol_Jonesey


Pretty sure that's today Jackie!

Hope you enjoy X2 as much as I have.

It certainly is, just not sure how long the postman / courier will take to get it to me!  :)

Mine arrived yesterday and I can confirm that my Cakewalk store account now shows:


"DSF Symphonic Strings HD - Free with SONAR X2 Producer purchase" with a download link.


Although it took so long for the registrations (X2, Rapture and the automatic free DSF download) to appear in my account (after filling in the online registration form) that I emailed customer services, so I don't know whether time or their intervention was responsible.


I didn't bother registering Dimension Pro again as it seems like the same version already registered with X1, what have others done about Dim Pro?


Amusingly, the DSF Strings show with a date of 10/10/2012 which is the same date my SONAR X1 Welcome Kit 2 etc. now show (those automatic entitlement ones seem to do their own thing, don't they).


I'm looking forward to the Content Club goodies, it's a feel-good idea:  http://www.cakewalk.com/p...ucer/content-club.aspx 


Hope you've all got yours now too.  :)  

Mine arrived yesterday from Et Cetera 


 Great site! Great price, brilliant communications. Will definitely use next time. Very painless. 


Didn't get a chance to install last night :( 




 I can't see the DSF strings download link in my account however? 


Thanks to OP again for recommending! 

You should also see new registrations for any X1 Pro Channel modules which you bought separately, such as the Leveling Amplifier, Concrete Limiter etc.

Bristol_Jonesey


You should also see new registrations for any X1 Pro Channel modules which you bought separately, such as the Leveling Amplifier, Concrete Limiter etc.

Hmm, that's weird then, my PC2A still has the old date:


30/03/2012
ProChannel Module - PC2A T-Type Leveling Amplifier

Not sure why you want to install Dim Pro again, since it hasn't changed.  

Bob Bone

Nothing from my X2 purchases are showing. 

 Would retail shop advise Cakewalk I have purchased X2? 

 Am I being a bit dim? I can't work out how Cake would know I have bought X2?

Ah, that would be why... :p

 I've always downloaded before. (apart from my first venture into Sonar with Sonar 6 HS...time flies)

 Thanks again Jackie!

Jackie

SilverfoxUK


Nothing from my X2 purchases are showing. 

Would retail shop advise Cakewalk I have purchased X2? 

Am I being a bit dim? I can't work out how Cake would know I have bought X2?

Here you go:


http://www.cakewalk.com/register/default.aspx


Use the same email address as your Cakewalk Store account. 


If the new registrations haven't appeared in your account tomorrow (along with your DSF download link), send customer services an email with the online form here:

http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/csr.aspx

SilverfoxUK


Nothing from my X2 purchases are showing. 

Would retail shop advise Cakewalk I have purchased X2? 

Am I being a bit dim? I can't work out how Cake would know I have bought X2?

from your registration.
 
and it will only show up in your e-store account if you used the same email address when you registered it.
 
 
also, give it some time after registration.  it took about a week before mine showed up in the e-store account after I registered it.

All sorted now. Links appeared next day! 

 Nice.

  Installed X2 last night, had a play around. seems fine. 

Opening an automation track lane in X2, from a project created in X1, resulted in about 20 lanes opening up in X2. bit odd but I guess once I start natively working in X2, should get these issues. 

The wording was definitely confusing.  :(

I agree, it was really misleading.

Customers want to know what options they have, and they want those options to be communicated clearly.

It seems that the pre-sale "bonus" was just access to the download link a day early (which isn't a bonus that would particularly attract me, but clearly appealed to some), but it wasn't clear at the time that the DSF Strings pack would still be available post-release.  I don't recall the cut-off date being very clear either, but maybe that was just me.

At the time it seemed that the DSF strings pack was the pre-sale bonus but then it transpired that it was the early adopter bonus, available to download customers until the end of September and to purchasers of physical stock from third parties until the end of October... except the store page I just checked for the X2 Pro upgrade still lists the DSF Strings pack as if it is available for download customers at the moment (so I have no idea whether it still is or not).

It would have been more straightforward if Cakewalk had just issued a statement that any X2 Pro registration before the end of October would qualify for the DSF Strings pack, then people would have had an opportunity to sort out their options and cashflow.

I like the freebie for early adopters (and I like the Content Club idea), but it was not communicated clearly enough.