Sonar X2 Producer new content available

Yeah, it has been there for hours. Wonder where the announcement is? Did just notice the updated Content Club webpage.

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2750209

no biggy, already got a year pass for it.. doubt I'm the only one.. exclusive content would be better

 
I dunno...   I'm sure liking this one.  

stevec

no biggy, already got a year pass for it.. doubt I'm the only one.. exclusive content would be better

 
I dunno...   I'm sure liking this one.  

maybe when they start giving out content you already have for a few months you might not be liking it so much... I think it's more irony,  they have a big company (roland) yet nothing REALLY exclusive I can't get elsewhere or already don't have. don't offer loops only as wav's.. thats to make pedestrian / lazy man's music . 

It's a good time for them to put something else there, that you really can't get elsewhere and x-amount of others haven't offered already.

@fog. you seem kinda cranky this week! It's hard to complain about a freebie. No matter what they offer, short having someone create custom content every two months, somebody here is going to already have it. I'm not sure what the percentage of people here who already have groove3 memberships is, but unless it's the overwhelming majority, cakewalk has just given out a very practical and useful freebie. Everyone who owns this product can likely get some benefit. Of course there are the exceptions who somehow know absolutely everything there is to know about Sonar and other things covered on groove3, but I'm guessing those are exceptions. Even when the freebie is useless ( everyone does not use loops) it's still a freebie and will be hit or miss. It sounds like what you are asking for is an unreasonable expectation for a freebie...namely a commercially viable product that is exclusive , overlaps no functionality with cakewalk products or sounds in existence and all for free? I'm sure they get a discount purchasing the group license at groove3 but developers creating custom content, add-ons etc are not in any way cost effective. It is never a wise business model to give a damn about customer complaints about freebies. Nothing they do will ever be enough. What exactly do you want them to give you for free?

not really cranky.. but I bet the membership isn't low for g3 if you use a lot of things = it's far cheaper to get a year pass...the month pass has been offered at least 2 places else I know of ... music tech and one of the big US shops

it would be far better to get something exclusive , perhaps from roland sound wise etc.. that you can't get anywhere else.. (no I'm not talking yet another version of the 808 / 909 kits either)

the strings thing is the only freebie that was "nicely" marketed as an exclusive for pre-orders.. and then what happens.. it is available for full orders after. Guess I'll be upgrading with a UK shop next time.

the loopmaster stuff, well sorry.. I could have got most of that as sneaky peaks etc.. so not really exclusive either. I'm sure I have some of it on a computer music mag dvd, no doubt

you think the companies who are in co-op aren't getting business from cakewalk indirectly or directly .e.g. the soundpacks bundled with sonar itself. so it's a free advert also

even if they are getting billed for it, that's factored into what we are paying, as I don't assume cake is a charity .. and the groove3 thing is targeted marketing , so if it gets them more yearly passes= good for them. 

I guess it stems back from when i did a website.. every year we'd offer something that was never released and it was only available to that time... not repeated.


offering loops as wav.. is like me giving you a birthday "cake".. in the form of some eggs / flour / icing and saying get on with it..lol (it isn't 1991 and I don't own an akai 950 )

Okay... let's bring this back to earth.

So I'm not familiar with this website or how the subscription works. I'm assuming I have to create an account and then I can watch these streaming for a month.

So... no downloads, right? ALL their videos are available for streaming, right? For example I was poking around and saw the Mixing 101 http://www.groove3.com/str/Mix-School-101.html... So can I watch all of those vids?

It looks like there are a bunch more I'd check out too. Mostly actual recording concepts. I've got enough material about Sonar. What I'll probably do is wait until the last couple days to redeem it (currently working through the X2 manual) then just spend every darned day for a month watching as much as I can and take notes along the way.

So if that's how this works... then yeah, this is FINALLY a super useful freebie for me.

I'd get more mileage out of that month than others though because I can literally spend all day every day watching the things. Perhaps my head will finally explode. ;-)

beep , you can watch them.. free for a month.. a year pass , allows you to acess them to view.. but if you wanna download = they charge

jeff it's worth subbing IF you have enough of what they due vid's for.. xmas they has a good deal on , so I renewed then to my existing one

dub, your right... it's like comparing apples / oranges ..the folks who I did the site for had FAR less resources than roland does, or cakewalk.. the smart thing for them would be to include something from their sound libs or synths (bet they have shedloads from even the s760 etc) that could be re-used..... it's a bit like me buying u-he diva.. the demo swayed me enough.

Thanks, Fog. I'm excited to watch them but I must resist the temptation until I get through the manual... at least the important bits. Cheers.