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What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
Or did someone make a mistake sending emails?
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 09:01:14
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Steev
Or did someone make a mistake sending emails?
The was confusion in several places. The website has now been fixed.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 10:00:10
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Ah well, I will take advantage of the offer, but I am particularly peeved that I have been led to believe, and budgeted for, an end of March deadline.
I know $99 is peanuts to most people, but that extra month I thought I had made it so much easier to work with.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 10:16:11
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Sir William
Ah well, I will take advantage of the offer, but I am particularly peeved that I have been led to believe, and budgeted for, an end of March deadline.
I know $99 is peanuts to most people, but that extra month I thought I had made it so much easier to work with.
Yeah I am kind of in the same boat. Bought some used gear that I was afraid to wait on and planned to take advantage of the $99 offer before the end of March. Now I am up in the air on what I am going to do.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 10:22:20
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Sir William
Ah well, I will take advantage of the offer, but I am particularly peeved that I have been led to believe, and budgeted for, an end of March deadline.
I know $99 is peanuts to most people, but that extra month I thought I had made it so much easier to work with.
Yeah I am kind of in the same boat. Bought some used gear that I was afraid to wait on and planned to take advantage of the $99 offer before the end of March. Now I am up in the air on what I am going to do.
I honestly think Cakewalk should swallow their pride and take their error like a man - extend the deadline to end if March. After all, it wasn't the users' mistake.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 11:09:59
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Sir William
I honestly think Cakewalk should swallow their pride and take their error like a man - extend the deadline to end if March. After all, it wasn't the users' mistake.
I guess "Add one year..." discount was thought for "early adopters", with reasonable one month grace period. And not as money saving feature in terms of "I can skip 2 months and loose nothing" (either at the beginning of the last year or this year). I know in most cases "special actions" are prolonged and not cut, but in this case that make sense. Also "usual" price (in other online shops) is less then $30 more.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 11:27:05
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I have continued my subscription so no missed payments and a catch-up after two months from. I appreciate what you say, but that is NOT what cakewalk has been emailing me since late December. Changing the goalposts at the eleventh hour is a bit sneaky, as it was CW's error after all.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 11:30:26
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Surely it's just an arbitrarily set date anyway?
But I moved quickly - I got mine - unnecessary panic, though.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 11:36:24
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Arbitrary is fine, if it is not duplicitous. What I find difficult to accept is the glaring mistake where two different dates are bandied about, then with 2 weeks notice, the final decision is called to use the earlier date.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 14:34:09
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Sir William
Ah well, I will take advantage of the offer, but I am particularly peeved that I have been led to believe, and budgeted for, an end of March deadline.
I know $99 is peanuts to most people, but that extra month I thought I had made it so much easier to work with.
Same here!
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/16 19:57:25
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Steev
Or did someone make a mistake sending emails?
The was confusion in several places. The website has now been fixed.
Is this the fastest bug fix??  Still I wish if it is extended - cannot take now.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/17 10:54:03
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While it doesn't impact me personally, it doesn't feel good to see this, even if the errors were innocent. We all screw up and it's nice when people are generous and allow for our "humanity" and great when there can be forgiveness. For myself, when I do make mistakes that impact people, I do what I can to make it right. The people at Cakewalk are not unreasonable and I feel confident that if anyone really impacted by the date change contacts Cakewalk directly, that the marketing team would find a way to arrange a "personal extension" for the $99 deal. I've seen them make things right in the past.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/17 12:51:30
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Hay look, Somethings are not locked in stone... lol 3/18/2019
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/17 15:18:52
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On Cakewalk side I will extend the deadline for the whole year. But on Cakewalk side I will mark the extension not from the payment day but from previous membership end date  I mean the last year there was no "members only" content and I do not see they are going to change that this year. "Skipping" several months has close to no consequences, except possible delay in receiving the equal number of updates as soon as they have published (and not everyone is installing them immediately to avoid new bugs in current setup). I am sure Cakewalk is going to "tune" the membership model with time. They have already understood that "the value" of this year is in general lower then for the last year (and so have adjusted initial prolongation price). May be they have also understood that with a plan to release new update in Mar. they should increase prolongation price before that. So I repeat. If someone had a plan to "prolong" end of Mar, either he/she is not an "early adopter" or is not a member now. In some respect that is a "trick" to pay less. And in this case Cakewalk has right to "trick" back... Problems with real errors in advertisements, like with XLN last time, Cakewalk is solving as it should.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/17 20:40:34
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In some respect that is a "trick" to pay less. And in this case Cakewalk has right to "trick" back...
Sorry AZSLOW. I beg to differ. Its a question of announcement time. When it was 31st March some of us plan accordingly. Last moment(?) it got changed and upset the plan. If it was announced initially as Feb28, the plan could have been else. Some have been able to replan and some cannot. The 'cannot' people are the combination of following sets: Getting membership expiring soon - and will still try to avail. Getting membership expiring soon - and will take path of $149 when they are comfortable. Getting membership expiring soon - and will wait for any similar offer comes up and continue with the installed. Getting membership expiring later - and will still try to avail. Getting membership expiring later - and will wait for any similar offer comes up and continue with the installed as they are not getting affected at least now. Getting membership expiring later - and will take path of $149 when they are comfortable and continue with the installed as they are not getting affected at least now. Getting membership expiring later - and will think about the path of $149 when they are comfortable and continue with the installed as they are not getting affected at least now and looking for other option as well depending on the features come up during this time. ... and more I think. This is not to trick to play less .. Some of us don't earn from music and still try to keep going on and need to think about conversion rate where somewhere it is 1:67 keeping busy the entire day and end of the day working with another effort of keeping the eyelids up with some unusual crashes and thinking the software doesn't have bugs only the hardware is not capable enough and restart with a hope to upgrade that too sometime when wallet permits. This is not to trick to play less .. If those users say its fine and we are not going to renew and we don't want the new features, but we want all the bug fixes for the software they have already paid for will Cakewalk start making two versions - "Manchester-BF", "Lexington-BF" ... etc and SPLAT-N', SPLAT-O' and so on? All these discussion wouldn't have come up if the date was not changed or accepted the extension back, no one would be in a position to say anything. Somewhere in some forum I have seen about the legal issue of advertising and Federal Law etc etc. But I feel time to time interaction by Cakewalk Team made the users feel as team members not customers and many of the users are psychologically attached to Cakewalk. All these are my personal opinion. Got to go to Work [to earn!! $149  ] Regards Snehankur
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/17 21:25:38
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Speaking for myself and no one cares what I say anyway... My decision to upgrade was made by one thing only... Cakewalk, after saying we had until March 29th to upgrade "False advertised" and changed the date to Feb 28, not even of the end of the month. I have to wonder if they even know this is a leap year... This is truly pathetic! I will go back to upgrading when I feel like it and NOT because I'm being manipulated to do so! I don't blame the bakers or the CW faces we see on this forum, I'm sure they feel embarrassed just showing their faces here! "IMO" as always...
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Hay look, Somethings are not locked in stone... lol 3/18/2019
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/18 02:51:00
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Snehankur
azslow3
In some respect that is a "trick" to pay less. And in this case Cakewalk has right to "trick" back...
Sorry AZSLOW. I beg to differ.
Its a question of announcement time. When it was 31st March some of us plan accordingly. Last moment(?) it got changed and upset the plan.
It is still not the end of Feb, hard to call that "Last moment".
If it was announced initially as Feb28, the plan could have been else. Some have been able to replan and some cannot. The 'cannot' people are the combination of following sets:
Getting membership expiring soon - and will still try to avail.
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"Expiring soon or later" means they was not early adopters (all of them have it expired now). And I guess initial plan was to make the discount for that category (so with more than 1 month grace period, Sonar 2015 was released in Jan).
If those users say its fine and we are not going to renew and we don't want the new features, but we want all the bug fixes for the software they have already paid for will Cakewalk start making two versions - "Manchester-BF", "Lexington-BF" ... etc and SPLAT-N', SPLAT-O' and so on?
In membership model you pay for fixed period you get updates AND features. That does not include fixes after that period for free. There are many users which would prefer just fixes while ready to pay for both. But that is more work which will rise the price in general if implemented. Cakewalk could make a "package" : "one year membership + one year free updates" for $300. Does that make sense?
All these are my personal opinion. Got to go to Work [to earn!! $149]
While it is possible to pay $149... no one is forced. Online stores near always have reduced price.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/18 11:35:21
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The way I read and understand it is our original subscription date stays the same no matter when or if we renew it, which is perfectly understandable and expectable.
Moving the date up a month did have a mildly negative impact on me as I did plan my budget to up grade in the middle of March.
Truth be told, being my budget has always been rather tight this time of the year, and so I wasn't planning on upgrading anytime soon to not at all, after reading Cleverbridge's rate hike to $20 per month.
Having read about the Cakewalk direct discount I decided to go for it, even though I do my serious moves on a much more stable and trustworthy Win 7 SONAR X3 P machine, which is actually much more than anyone could ever need to record and create music in unrivaled quality, depending on experience and expertise.
That being said, I've grown to like SPLAT and the subscription plan, but I don't really need it.
But I'm not comfortable with changing my [budget] plans, again, and being a firm believer in "Murphy's Law" rushed into parting with an extra $100 unexpectedly a month early.
I wasn't planning on upgrading anytime soon to not at all anyway, so if Cakewalk renegs on the March deal offer I'll spend my extra Franklin elsewhere. :o)
It would be interesting to find out if the very mild and relatively few and far between problems I experience with SPLAT are actually just bugs in Windows 10? Only time will tell...
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/18 11:52:46
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azslow3
While it is possible to pay $149... no one is forced. Online stores near always have reduced price.
Encouraging, though I would prefer to get it from Cakewalk - If I wish to .... "no one is forced" azslow3
It is still not the end of Feb, hard to call that "Last moment".
You missed the "?" mark. I wanted to mean it as relative. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month all can be last moment depending on the capability of on. For me it was One month. azslow3
"Expiring soon or later" means they was not early adopters (all of them have it expired now). And I guess initial plan was to make the discount for that category (so with more than 1 month grace period, Sonar 2015 was released in Jan).
I agree. But no being an early adopter is not a sin. azslow3
In membership model you pay for fixed period you get updates AND features. That does not include fixes after that period for free.
There one question has come in my mind and I couldn't find an answer. Suppose I am not an early adopter and my subscription finishes in 6 months time. And I choose not to pay further. After this 6 months will I have a bug free SONAR Platinum staying on my PC? If so, at what point I should stop installing newer releases? As if I install a current version they will introduce new bug and fixes of some earlier bugs. If I am happy with bug free Manchester (for example) and after 6 months of updates I revert back to earlier version they will introduce back the present bugs again, if I am not wrong. So is it an ongoing process of subscription that you cannot quit or stop and be happy with what you have unless you accept to stay compromised with bugs? I conclude with what I had said earlier: "All these discussion wouldn't have come up if the date was not changed or accepted the extension back, no one would be in a position to say anything. Somewhere in some forum I have seen about the legal issue of advertising and Federal Law etc etc. But I feel time to time interaction by Cakewalk Team made the users feel as team members not customers and many of the users are psychologically attached to Cakewalk." Anyway I am not going to leave Cakewalk. It took more than 22 years of struggle to come back to music and Cakewalk. Regards AZSLOW! Snehankur
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/19 12:01:24
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Well I just hope this wasn't a data entry where a low level employee gets the axe because they um, entered data wrong and gets fired because this effects revenue projections. We are dealing with a mega huge corporation which by no means should be confused with Wal-Mart (another problem entirely, just on another scale and plain of existence). Please note that I'm playing a Strat in my profile pic. It's not that I don't like Gibson's, they are priced out of the range of us people who USED to be what was once considered the middle class. One of my favorite guitars of all times was my mid 60's Gibson SG. Not even close to as durable or versatile as my "older" Fender Strat, but I loved it anyway, and I have never EVER played a Les Paul I didn't like. That being said, I've used Cakewalk since "Pro Audio 9" and bragged about it, as well as how Cakewalk staff always participated and chimed in at this very forum, but didn't see that happen in this thread. Or did I miss something? Well one thing is for sure is I personally won't be a SONAR "subscription" evangelist anymore, it's seems to be Cakewalk is getting to big to fail or so they think, and that's getting outright embarrassing in other forums I participate very regularly in.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/19 12:52:34
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Steev
Well I just hope this wasn't a data entry where a low level employee gets the axe because they um, entered data wrong and gets fired because this effects revenue projections.
We are dealing with a mega huge corporation which by no means should be confused with Wal-Mart (another problem entirely, just on another scale and plain of existence).
Please note that I'm playing a Strat in my profile pic. It's not that I don't like Gibson's, they are priced out of the range of us people who USED to be what was once considered the middle class.
One of my favorite guitars of all times was my mid 60's Gibson SG. Not even close to as durable or versatile as my "older" Fender Strat, but I loved it anyway, and I have never EVER played a Les Paul I didn't like.
That being said, I've used Cakewalk since "Pro Audio 9" and bragged about it, as well as how Cakewalk staff always participated and chimed in at this very forum, but didn't see that happen in this thread.
Or did I miss something?
Well one thing is for sure is I personally won't be a SONAR "subscription" evangelist anymore, it's seems to be Cakewalk is getting to big to fail or so they think, and that's getting outright embarrassing in other forums I participate very regularly in.
I chimed in on another thread. This was an error and we gave notice last week so customers would know. We don't have the too big to fail attitude. That's not even close to it. We are very fair with pricing and contribute a lot to this forum as well. We like communicating with customers and getting feedback. We also work very hard on customer satisfaction and obviously we've been improving the product every month.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/19 12:54:10
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Snehankur
azslow3
While it is possible to pay $149... no one is forced. Online stores near always have reduced price.
Encouraging, though I would prefer to get it from Cakewalk - If I wish to .... "no one is forced"
azslow3
It is still not the end of Feb, hard to call that "Last moment".
You missed the "?" mark. I wanted to mean it as relative. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month all can be last moment depending on the capability of on. For me it was One month.
azslow3
"Expiring soon or later" means they was not early adopters (all of them have it expired now). And I guess initial plan was to make the discount for that category (so with more than 1 month grace period, Sonar 2015 was released in Jan).
I agree. But no being an early adopter is not a sin.
azslow3
In membership model you pay for fixed period you get updates AND features. That does not include fixes after that period for free.
There one question has come in my mind and I couldn't find an answer.
Suppose I am not an early adopter and my subscription finishes in 6 months time. And I choose not to pay further. After this 6 months will I have a bug free SONAR Platinum staying on my PC? If so, at what point I should stop installing newer releases? As if I install a current version they will introduce new bug and fixes of some earlier bugs.
If I am happy with bug free Manchester (for example) and after 6 months of updates I revert back to earlier version they will introduce back the present bugs again, if I am not wrong.
So is it an ongoing process of subscription that you cannot quit or stop and be happy with what you have unless you accept to stay compromised with bugs?
I conclude with what I had said earlier:
"All these discussion wouldn't have come up if the date was not changed or accepted the extension back, no one would be in a position to say anything. Somewhere in some forum I have seen about the legal issue of advertising and Federal Law etc etc. But I feel time to time interaction by Cakewalk Team made the users feel as team members not customers and many of the users are psychologically attached to Cakewalk."
Anyway I am not going to leave Cakewalk. It took more than 22 years of struggle to come back to music and Cakewalk.
Regards AZSLOW!
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
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☄ Helpfulby charlyg 2016/02/19 13:14:24
Dave000
Speaking for myself and no one cares what I say anyway...
My decision to upgrade was made by one thing only... Cakewalk, after saying we had until March 29th to upgrade "False advertised" and changed the date to Feb 28, not even of the end of the month. I have to wonder if they even know this is a leap year... This is truly pathetic!
I will go back to upgrading when I feel like it and NOT because I'm being manipulated to do so!
I don't blame the bakers or the CW faces we see on this forum, I'm sure they feel embarrassed just showing their faces here!
"IMO" as always...
Not embarrassed at all. Not all offers end on the last day of the month. They vary. We are aware of the leap year. We mostly likely will keep the offer up an extra day for anyone who misses it. We typically do this with all our offers. I am sorry you fee like you are being manipulated. We've done special offers like these all the time. Many times we extend them. This is one of the first times I can remember ending it soon. All offers are always subject to change. It's on our email at the bottom. Regardless, we put together a pretty reasonable renewal offer for customers and there will be over 6 weeks to take advantage of it. A lot of companies only offer flash sales or much smaller time periods.
post edited by Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk] - 2016/02/19 13:12:27
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Andrew Rossa
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/19 13:00:04
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azslow3
On Cakewalk side I will extend the deadline for the whole year. But on Cakewalk side I will mark the extension not from the payment day but from previous membership end date I mean the last year there was no "members only" content and I do not see they are going to change that this year. "Skipping" several months has close to no consequences, except possible delay in receiving the equal number of updates as soon as they have published (and not everyone is installing them immediately to avoid new bugs in current setup).
I am sure Cakewalk is going to "tune" the membership model with time. They have already understood that "the value" of this year is in general lower then for the last year (and so have adjusted initial prolongation price). May be they have also understood that with a plan to release new update in Mar. they should increase prolongation price before that.
So I repeat. If someone had a plan to "prolong" end of Mar, either he/she is not an "early adopter" or is not a member now. In some respect that is a "trick" to pay less. And in this case Cakewalk has right to "trick" back...
Problems with real errors in advertisements, like with XLN last time, Cakewalk is solving as it should.
I don't think the value of this year is going to be lower. We have some exciting stuff in store for 2016. Beyond what we've listed.
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/19 13:42:35
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It is very tolerant of you to chime in Andrew - my response to the self obsessed whining would have been entirely different. Reading this thread you would think that ending the sale will lead to starving children and global warming. For the love of dogs it is just a discount price folks - buy it now or get over it! Jeez.
post edited by tenfoot - 2016/02/19 13:56:59
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Re: What's up with the March 31 upgrade offer moved to the end of Feb?
2016/02/20 07:01:06
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Thank you for responding Andrew and I hope I didn't cause you too much personal grief, and I really appreciate and have the ultimate respect for your work and contributions in making this probably one of the world's best support forums of any software.
I would also like to point out that I feel that SONAR is the absolute hands down "Best Value For the Buck", and an excellent DAW and will never stop using it.
How ever, I am less than satisfied with the subscription plan, especially when I received notice from Cleaverbridge about a $5 rate hike per month.
I was somewhat peeved when I tried to simply buy out of the rental plan with no provision to get any money back on the months I had already paid into.
That being said I'm happy with what I got from Platinum, comfortable with doing tracking work with a stable X3 and mixing in Platinum, and don't really feel the need to upgrade.
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