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Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
I am havng a (very rare!) housekeeping session. I have Cakewalk programme discs going back to Pro Audio 9. I used to need that one to validate the mp3 codec. I used to buy disc versions of most updates in case of computer failure. I have Sonar 5, 6, X1, X3, Dim. Pro. &c. Now we have Command Center is there any point in keeping these? I know some discontinued plugins may be lurking, but are they any use under Windoes 8.1/10? What's best practice? Might I be junking anthing valuable? Advice gratefully welcomed.
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NeoSoul
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/22 17:24:22
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If you have the full Boxed X3 Platinum, I'd be interested in it. I upgraded from X3 Professional to X3 Producer (digitally through Sweetwater) and hoped to get the install discs from Cake, but they discontinued the discs once they rolled out the Membership system.
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/22 17:42:58
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☄ Helpfulby Zargg71 2016/03/22 18:06:19
I would keep the disks that contain the VST and VSTis that you use today but are no included in splat.
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Zargg
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/22 17:59:05
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Hi. I remember when SONAR shipped with Timeworks plugins (32 bit dxi IIRC, in SONAR XL 2.2), and thought that I would never get the likes of that again. But the plugs included in SONAR today is way better, and I do not miss them at all. I would only keep things used in older projects, and update the rest to whichever is the latest version. Others may have another opinions.
All the best.
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/22 18:19:04
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Keep everything you have! While we do have CCC it's only for Plat anything before that will not show up in CCC for instance sometime in the 1980's Cakewalk produce a disk called Cakewalk Express while I do not see any need for the plug-ins that it has I do like the demo songs it has those demo songs are no longer available from Cakewalk. Another example Cakewalk had a plug-in Beatscape I think the name is that Cakewalk has discontinue which I think is a very nice plug-in if it was available I would like to have. So again keep everything you have you never know if there was a plug-in that you may find useless that may one day may become useful.
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Dave76
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/22 18:20:54
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Speaking from recent experience, if you have any old projects created by them, I'd hang on to them. I've been going through my archives recently and have been trying to open up a bunch of pre-SONAR to SONAR 4 era projects. They'll open in the latest and audio will work but so many plug-ins have gone away that you can lose a lot of detail. I managed to find my SONAR 4 install CD and it still works like a charm under Windows 10. At least now I can look at the old settings as a frame of reference for migrating the projects to the latest if I decide to.
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Cactus Music
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/22 22:38:25
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CCC it's only for Plat anything before that will not show up
This is not true as you still have your store account page where everything is still saved. For me this goes back to X1LE. The older programs may not be managed by CCC but if my house blew up and I lost everything I will still have everything I ever bought from Cakewalk stored there and easily retrieved.
I find little reason to keep CD's anymore. Most contain outdated versions of everything including driver instal disks. Now we download direct from the manufacture all we need and it will be up to date.
The exception will be old obsolete equipment.
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GregGraves
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 05:37:40
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☄ Helpfulby bandso 2016/03/23 14:32:33
If you throw something away you think you'll never need, it is gone, and sure enough, you'll need it.
If you keep something you think you might need in the future, you will never need it....
CAVEAT: Any saved thing will sit there, year after year collecting dust, tempting you again and again to get rid of the damn thing ... and when you finally give in and toss it ... you'll immediately find you need it.
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 13:34:15
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Some VSTs are no longer available from Cakewalk, as far as I know. Old plugins like the Lexicon Reverb, and V-Vocal, I've had to access by installing them from old disks. For that reason, I'm keeping hold of my CDs.
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 16:23:11
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Agreed with all above especially that nugget from Greg. Keep them and put them nice and neat in a new but nearby location. Label them , put a rubber band around them. Put them in the box that you have that copy of Windows 95, old DOS games and that cookbook software you swore you would use and "Rosetta Stone: Learn Russian Now" and throw THOSE away. Relabel "Cakewalk Archival DATA" . That way it will "feel" like you cleaned up without actually throwing them away. 
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 16:49:00
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Those CD/DVD insert pages that go into a normal 3-ring binder are useful. I put all CDs into a few binders and threw away most of the boxes and CD cases and reclaimed a lot of space. Just be sure to get all of the S/N cards, etc. I had an entire box of plastic cases that went to recycling (and those cases are heavier than you think till you have a couple hundred of them).
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 16:56:11
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I have all of mine. I would advise one to hold on to them. I also use them when I install on a new machine I may need to install the various plugins that no longer ship with Sonar.
You gain nothing from discarding them and you may need them in the future.
"From Greg Graves
CAVEAT: Any saved thing will sit there, year after year collecting dust, tempting you again and again to get rid of the damn thing ... and when you finally give in and toss it ... you'll immediately find you need it."
I think its a law of the universe. Right up there with "what can go wrong will go wrong".
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Dave76
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 17:15:50
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Cactus Music
This is not true as you still have your store account page where everything is still saved. For me this goes back to X1LE. The older programs may not be managed by CCC but if my house blew up and I lost everything I will still have everything I ever bought from Cakewalk stored there and easily retrieved.
Some of us go a long way back before X1 and those older versions are not available through the account page. For example, my account page shows licenses for SONAR 2 XL and 3 as well as pyro 2003 but sadly no downloads for any of these. It is also missing stuff I own like SONAR 4 for some reason.
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/23 17:38:09
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mettelus
Those CD/DVD insert pages that go into a normal 3-ring binder are useful. I put all CDs into a few binders and threw away most of the boxes and CD cases and reclaimed a lot of space. Just be sure to get all of the S/N cards, etc. I had an entire box of plastic cases that went to recycling (and those cases are heavier than you think till you have a couple hundred of them).
Great advice; I did this years ago and the binder sits on the shelf, not taking up much space but is always there. Steve
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Re: Housekeeping. Should I keep old Cakewalk programme CDs?
2016/03/24 14:14:43
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GregGraves
If you throw something away you think you'll never need, it is gone, and sure enough, you'll need it.
If you keep something you think you might need in the future, you will never need it....
CAVEAT: Any saved thing will sit there, year after year collecting dust, tempting you again and again to get rid of the damn thing ... and when you finally give in and toss it ... you'll immediately find you need it.
Listen to what the man said. It's not like a 77 Fender twin that weighs 200lbs and which your old man trips over it when he gets up. Jesse Q. Screed
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