What if I already own everything They make???
 

Again,
Did you guys fix the Concrete Limiter PC module that we paid for?
No mention of Concrete Limiter from what I can see...

gustabo
Again,
Did you guys fix the Concrete Limiter PC module that we paid for?
No mention of Concrete Limiter from what I can see...

This is not included in SONAR. If you have a specific question about it, I'd start a new thread about it. I am not sure which fix you were inquiring about.

Sooo... the upgrade price for Producer is going to go up to $200? Okay now I'm gonna do a bit of grumbling... that's gettin' pretty steep, guys. Hope there will be plenty of sales throughout the year.
 
/grumbling

tclark101

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

tclark101
"Any chance you read the FAQ before you posted this? This is a very customer friendly program."
 
My worry is that I will be paying $149 for the update -- THIS YEAR. 

After that, it looks like I will be expected to pay around $600 per year to keep up my Platinum Subscription. Is this correct? 

Nope. After a year, you can purchase upfront for $199 or renew monthly for $19.99/month. You will have had a year to decide if you think it's worth it. So does put the burden on us to provide value :)

That does sound nice, but what about third year, fourth year, etc? Is the $199 per year the currently-planned on-going price to maintain a Platinum Membership? That is, for all users, is the planned Platinum membership $499 first year (for new people), and $199 after that? 
 
Just trying to clarify if the plan will soon become $499 per year, every year, to maintain. 

New customers would pay $499 upfront (like they do today) or $49.99/month for 12 months for SONAR Platinum and then starting month 13, they'd get charged $19.99. There is no plan to bump everyone up to $49.99. After you renew or upgrade from SONAR Producer, you will only pay $19.99/month.

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

Scoot
A little underwhelmed due to the holiday sales meaning I'd be looking for XLN to release some new kits from me to benefit from that

One thing to keep in mind, Platinum comes with Addictive Drums 2 Producer Bundle. That means that even if you have some of the kits already, you can choose 3 more ADPaks, MIDIpaks and Kit Pieces. Also, the new Drum Replacer will be a Platinum feature. 

I have all the kits I want from them at the moment, hence the waiting for new kits to be made by xln. I on the fence with their percussion session, so if I got x4 pro, it would get me that one I guess. If I hadn't bought 4 kits in the holiday season sales, then platinum would look a bargain. 

tclark101
Not intending to sound impolite, but I keep hearing "next year $199" -- I know you don't want to commit the company to $199 forever, but is it envisioned that it will go much beyond $199 per year to maintain a Platinum Membership? 
 
That is, i can see it going to $219 or $229 in a couple years, but are you planning to eventually have long-term future maintenance be on the level of $499 per year?

Well it used to be $79... then $99 unless you waited for a sale... then $149... and after this initial offer $199. So yeah, of course it will eventually go up. But they've raised the prices, slowly... so at least it will take a away before we're paying $499 a year to use Sonar.

tclark101
Not intending to sound impolite, but I keep hearing "next year $199" -- I know you don't want to commit the company to $199 forever, but is it envisioned that it will go much beyond $199 per year to maintain a Platinum Membership? 
 
That is, i can see it going to $219 or $229 in a couple years, but are you planning to eventually have long-term future maintenance be on the level of $499 per year?

I don't think that's the plan. We want to keep this simple. So moving forward there is only one renewal price, not the multiple upgrade paths we have now. We thought at least for the beginning it would be nice to give X3 customers a little break on the price. We also think $199 or $19.99 is a nice price point. I know I spend more than $20/month on worse things than DAW software :)

SimpleManZ
Easy to see I can only use Sonar on "1" computer from now on end. Then the occasional rebuilding of the said "1" computer will need to hassle of reclaiming whatever token I have 'dongled-Sonar' to the internet. 

We haven't claimed that. I currently have SONAR installed on multiple PC's with the same serial number and the same Cakewalk SSO account. It's practically the same model we've always had. 

If your system is offline, all you need to do is get a challenge file from SONAR. Send it to us with an online PC, and you'll get back your response file to import into SONAR on your offline PC.  

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

tclark101
Not intending to sound impolite, but I keep hearing "next year $199" -- I know you don't want to commit the company to $199 forever, but is it envisioned that it will go much beyond $199 per year to maintain a Platinum Membership? 
 
That is, i can see it going to $219 or $229 in a couple years, but are you planning to eventually have long-term future maintenance be on the level of $499 per year?

I don't think that's the plan. We want to keep this simple. So moving forward there is only one renewal price, not the multiple upgrade paths we have now. We thought at least for the beginning it would be nice to give X3 customers a little break on the price. We also think $199 or $19.99 is a nice price point. I know I spend more than $20/month on worse things than DAW software :)

Sounds great. Thanks for the clarifications. I'm on board. I've been keeping Producer up every year and it seems like this is only an incremental increase for people who keep up the upgrades like I have (with no whopper on its way). Thanks!

What if you're like me and got Addictive Drums 1 when it was offered with Sonar? Would I get Addictive Drums 2 this time?

I deleted the first part as I see it was answered while I was typing---
 
I'm not into having my DAW on line either.  I'd rather a USB licenser but it would be nice if they all shared the same device.  One will run out of ports! 
And to the dude who is off to buy Cubase, good luck with that. I got it for Christmas and have been using it for a over a week now, You want me to write out the list of missing features that it doesn't have compared to Sonar? It's like using Sonar 6. No, it's even missing stuff Sonar 6 had.  Sonar is without a doubt the DAW we should support. I'm not 100% happy with the latest version, but after suffering Cubase for a week it all of a sudden seems like the perfect DAW! 
 
I can't believe you are all being so patient with the one guy who's off his meds today.
 
Cubase uses a USB licencer and I like it because it's hassle free once set up.
You can install the software on a second computer off line. Cakewalk needs to do something about the Piracy and this new model is what that is all about, my guess. 
 
This is good marketing because I'm happy enough with X3 and was not planing on a upgrade for a few versions. You might have baited the hook :) 
Now I'll go read the versions and see if I can afford to upgrade to the flagship from Studio.