trtzbass
If they'd do that I'd buy the whole thing in a heartbeat

+1

Vastman
I see NOTHING wrong with in-app purchases... that's been the Pro Channel way since day one... "I'm done"????  No one forces anyone to buy them.  I would love the option and it's a valuable revenue stream to support Cake's new business model.  I too dream of a money free future but Trek ain't here YET!
 

Maybe I'm wrong, but for me, "in-app purchases" are done "through" the software, which means you would see ads and offers for products to buy inside SONAR.
 
I'm all for new ProChannel modules and other VST(i)s made by Cakewalk, but I prefer to have these things separated from my workspace.
 
If it would be an option like "Would you like to see in-app purchase offers?" in Preferences to enable/disable,
I'm all in. 
 

OK... I see how ur defining it... like a cell phone!  makes sense... we're just talkin semantics here and I agree that would suck
 

I just thought it was worth pointing out that this thread has over 30 posts and not one of them contain a single word about how these plug and mix processors actually sound. Not one word. 

JohanSebatianGremlin
I just thought it was worth pointing out that this thread has over 30 posts and not one of them contain a single word about how these plug and mix processors actually sound. Not one word. 

That's kind of not my intention behind this thread, to just be about the XLN and P&M options, but about all a options. wanted to;
Draw attention to the fact that suppliers are not making Prochannels.
Show some products would suit the prochannel format with the smallest tweaking (The DS-10 and all of P&M stuff VIP collection).
Ask others what others companies ranges would fall into this catagory.
Hope that stirring up something with 3rd parties may inspire dialogue between cake and a 3rd party.
 
Regards you question thought:
The XLN DS10 is meant to sound very good, and is one I'd consider Should I look for  3rd art transient. I curretly have the TS64 wired into the FX Channel. http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3475010
With 40 from P&M, there is a variety it seems from reveiws some a good a consistently good, some are good until pushed. I wouldn't want all 40, but there are a few in there I wouldn't mind in my set up. NOt the guitr amps for me, but phasers and ring modulator, harmonic enhancers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZt-M5_T5yc 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuhKNR8i1BE
 

JohanSebatianGremlin
I just thought it was worth pointing out that this thread has over 30 posts and not one of them contain a single word about how these plug and mix processors actually sound. Not one word. 

I use some PC on virtually all tracks.  They are up in the izotope/FF class or close... I use all three while most of the $1000s of dollars in plugs I've acquired over the years are gathering dust. Personally I'd like high quality PC modules, like the original bakers offered... don't really use the one knobbers so can't really comment on the newer stuff, although the mastering mods are VERY nice...

I think all I only don't have of the PC selection is the Softube stuff. That's meant to sound really good along with the FET compressor.
The standard of the PC vailble is pretty damn good. I can't ses why people are against them. They sound great, make efficient use of the screen real estate,  streamlined into the mixer. You can just view them i the Inspector if wanted. 
 
I just use a few VST, some converted to PC via the FX Chain otion, some are just too big, so having them occupy the major part of the screen whist the PC strip sits in the inspector is tidy way to work.

Vastman
OK... I see how ur defining it... like a cell phone!  makes sense... we're just talkin semantics here and I agree that would suck
 

this is the commonly accepted definition of "in-app purchase" - i think Anderton should clarify what he meant
 

Anderton... lifetime updates, lots of new users, and in-app purchases ...

I think it is pretty obvious that ProChannel additions will be a revenue stream for Cakewalk.  How else are they going to make money when everyone with a computer (PC and Mac) owns SONAR?  New PCs are one answer.  3rd Party PCs another.  Synths.  What else can Cake sale other than SONAR?  I'm sure Cake thinks harder about this stuff than I do, but those are the obvious accoutrements to sell to help pay for their continued work on SONAR proper.
 
And I doubt there will be pop-up adds on SONAR, and they will have a hard time w/ my computer that is never hooked up to the internet.  But really, a $500 program w/ pop ups?  They would be chased off the virtual DAW street.  However, I can see "info" presented when you are updating w/ CCC.  I can see a lot of members here updating w/ a credit card handy when the Cakewalk spacey echo for $40 comes up as an in-app "special" via CCC.  I imagine that is more how Cake will go.  Cake would rather have you buying software thru them than off the street.

Klaus
Klanghelm's VU-Meter as a ProChannel module would be really great.
And most probably quite affordable... 
 

That's the ONLY suggestion so far I've seen that seems applicable to ProChannel as it's mastering oriented.
All of the others sugested above I'd never use on a ProChannel.