Sonar Updates

Perhaps both.  I think the idea is to get patches out quickly. I also think updates will come along often. Its something that we will have to see how it all works out. 

yep, what John said...
 
 I think we are going to all just have to jump in and hang on.
 
I'm thinking the 1st year this works out well for us consumers.  We pay for an update and get new things along the way, extra updates throughout the year .  The second year things get dicey....Will the 2nd year membership be more a leap of faith?  
 
It would behoove the bakers to be honest with the updates and not hold back.  Cake has been a very honorable company in the past.  I have little doubt they will continue.
 
My guess is... there will be a feature or 2 (Staff View maybe!!) plus a host of things (like AD2) that will make the membership renewal more than worth it.     
 

I'm with mixmkr. In the beginning CW staff have said they will make it worth it to members.

I think they will do exactly that and more. And come next year, it will be a no-brainer to renew our membership.

Grem...you're right.  Cake actually has a lot on their plate to deliver, or else they're going to suffer in the sales dept.  I'm POSITIVE they know this, as they aint stooopid about this stuff either (along with making a great piece of software) and I'm sure have thought this out in length.  After all, getting the option to upgrade to a Les Paul Supreme, ONLY for members, has got to be around the corner!! ;-D

Jimbo 88
Cake has been a very honorable company in the past. I have little doubt they will continue.
 

 
Agreed, i have noticed this about Cakewalk. Can't say that for many other companies these days, even the iconic ones like Apple and Sony etc. Do i have any examples of this?...
 
I bought an Apple iPod Nano on the info at their website that it has 29 hours music playback time. Biggest load of **** ever, and not just depending on how we use it. Just a point-blank lie to sell millions more of them. And with Apple's other products their pricing strategy is so 'manipulative' and contrived to a point that can be easily seen as utter ruthlessness beyond normal company prerogative! Especially the way they allow only certain iMac models to be upgradeable so that we can't get any value-for-money with the cheaper models etc. And Apple got sued recently in America over the iPhone 6 having much less available ram memory than was advertised. Can't tell me Apple wasn't aware of this.
 
Sony designed the menus in the Playstation 4 to make it an utter annoyance to turn-off the controller when viewing movies which we need to do because the controller has such bad battery time. It could easily have been a one-click affair, but Sony made it an 8 button-push affair so that we would get so fed-up and just buy the accessory TV remote. They figured that if even only 10% of Playstation owners buy it that would give them an extra $250 million just by 'deliberately' causing annoying inconvenience with the onscreen menus. 
 
Microsoft refuse to include a default program to allow us to fix constant and continuous registry errors that detrimentally affect Windows just by mere virtue of 'everyday normal use'. There is a third-party program which does this (repatches the entire Windows registry to the best optimal state as if totally reinstalling Windows but without having to actually reinstall it and without affecting installed programs/apps etc). Considering all the headaches that Windows is notorious for, one would think that Microsoft would buy the third-party program and integrate it into Windows as standard.
 
Canon and Sony deliberately downgrade video functions in their high-end DSLR cameras (these deliberate downgrades lock internal digital codecs and bitrate to suppress performance) in order to sway cashed-up serious video producers to folk-out for the $12,000 camcorder models. This can easily be deemed unethical rather than business prerogative. And Nikon actually refused to admit a major and obvious fault with one of their high-end DSLRs and thus only a class-action lawsuit in America made them replace all the cameras free of charge. 
 
Seiko sells 8 year model watches as if they are this years model and supplies them to retailers. Thus the retailer even has to open the watch to replace the battery to keep up the pretense it is new (thus making it technically second-hand), but also means a major service is required soon after buying it. As happened with me recently and thus i had to take them to court over it. Amongst all the wrangling, the service attendant at Seiko accidentally blurted-out that this is an 8 year old model, even though i only bought it months ago. 
 
 
Certain TV companies buy B and C grade near-reject panels and use them for quick mass sales etc. I've had to return 4 different TVs because of this. Blemishes and blotching in the panel that they could argue is nothing strange when they know very well it is low-grade garbage and affecting our viewing experience.
 
And on and on and on, it's endless. Integrity and honesty is always of utmost importance to me in my own dealings, thus I hope Cakewalk always continue on the 'intergrity' road.
 
 
 
 

gswitz
@Drone7, I've got to say I don't agree with pretty much anything you've said. In all your stories, my sympathies lay with the producer rather than you in almost all cases. 

 
Correction: geezz, do have to make everything so fu_king personal??? Well, seeing as how you wanna get personal about it, i'll say this... i only try to stick with what's factual, so it's not actually me you're disagreeing with, it's the spirit in you disagreeing with the spirit in me, i'll let you think on that one...
 
Also, you said: "I've got to say I don't agree with pretty much anything you've said."
 
Well, i've got to say, you forgot to add the word "ever" as the second to last word in that sentence.
 
And really, that's cool by me if you have an issue, but not even the two parties of the American government can agree on anything, tell me something new, or should that be "There's nothing new under the sun". It's all been seen and done before mate, as long as we don't kill each other over it, that's the main thing... have a nice day.
 
 

SuperG
For testing, get some truly trash-configured PCs and beat on it till it cries.

 
Well said, meaning well worded, i like your idea and the way you put it.
 
Anyway, hopefully Cakewalk let go of the recursive paradigm to their approach over the years. This new monthly schedule thing might alter their approach to all this. You're not the first to mention what seems like decades old bugs that haven't been fixed, which borders on negligence in my books, but hopefully Cakewalk will try and zero-in on these longstanding bugs and get them dealt with once and for all. I hope Cakewalk takes heed of all the feedback...