Mr.Anderton....more emulations,please

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask for help from Mr.Anderton,to suggest to continue the develop of emulations of popular old devices.
Now ,for me, my system with Sonar X3 is so reliable that I would just have more choice in the plug ins.
These are some brands that I'd like to see in ProChannel:
Summit Audio, Tubetech, Aphex,Manley and Millennia for masterbuss, DBX, Pultec, API, Neve, Empirical Labs, Maag ........
Mr.Anderton and Cake team, can you speed up this part of the Sonar X ?
All my best
 
Roberto

That's not my decision, but I can give some "outside-looking-in" comments.
 
If you're talking about including them with the program, licensing intellectual property (IP) from companies costs money. This would increase Sonar's price - in some cases dramatically depending on how much a company values its IP. This would particularly affect upgrade pricing, as these plug-ins would likely appear first in upgrades.
 
The point of plug-ins is that users can choose what they want to use for particular applications; if Sonar upgrades cost another couple hundred dollars to include specific plug-ins, and people didn't want those plug-ins possibly because they'd already paid significant money for licensed plug-ins from companies like Waves and Universal Audio, I think those customers would not happy.
 
The Nomad plug-ins aim for a vintage character, and I assume they were included to add that element to Sonar.
 
If Cakewalk was to develop its own line of plug-ins that parallel what's already available and make them optional-at-extra cost, that would take away development time from the core program itself and creating new devices like Z3TA+ that don't have equivalents from other companies.
 
That said, it's clear that Cakewalk does choose to do plug-ins that cover the same territory as classic hardware devices - like the Console Emulator, Tape Emulator, and CA2A. I'm confident that the Bakers will make the correct decisions as to which plug-ins are worth pursuing, and which ones aren't.
 

Anderton
That's not my decision, but I can give some "outside-looking-in" comments.
 
If you're talking about including them with the program, licensing intellectual property (IP) from companies costs money. This would increase Sonar's price - in some cases dramatically depending on how much a company values its IP. This would particularly affect upgrade pricing, as these plug-ins would likely appear first in upgrades.
 
The point of plug-ins is that users can choose what they want to use for particular applications; if Sonar upgrades cost another couple hundred dollars to include specific plug-ins, and people didn't want those plug-ins possibly because they'd already paid significant money for licensed plug-ins from companies like Waves and Universal Audio, I think those customers would not happy.
 
The Nomad plug-ins aim for a vintage character, and I assume they were included to add that element to Sonar.
 
If Cakewalk was to develop its own line of plug-ins that parallel what's already available and make them optional-at-extra cost, that would take away development time from the core program itself and creating new devices like Z3TA+ that don't have equivalents from other companies.
 
That said, it's clear that Cakewalk does choose to do plug-ins that cover the same territory as classic hardware devices - like the Console Emulator, Tape Emulator, and CA2A. I'm confident that the Bakers will make the correct decisions as to which plug-ins are worth pursuing, and which ones aren't.
 

Thanks for replay ,i agree with your considerations,but i would pay an extra cost for an old pearl device (Tubetech,Summit Audio....)emulations with a perfect integration with Sonar X Pro Channel and vst3.
But this is me.....

Geo524
I mean no offense but how about letting Cakewalk Developers decide what plugins to include. I think they've already done a great job with this. Mr. Anderton brings up a good point about Sonar increasing in price by licensing IP from other vendors/companies. After all there were some folks that felt the $150 upgrade price was a bit steep even with all the extras included. I felt $150 was fair considering what we got but if it had been even a little more I don't think I would've upgraded...

And to my point...part of that $150 was Melodyne, Addictive Drums, and Nomad. However, when you consider how much the extras in Sonar would cost if you didn't buy them as part of a Sonar upgrade, then the Sonar pricing looks really attractive.
 
The other nice thing about Sonar's 3rd-party plug-in choices is they don't always include the same extras in different version upgrades. Over time, you can build up a collection of plug-ins if you keep your old installation discs around. R-Mix and V-Vocal, the Lexicon Pantheon, etc. come to mind.