I received an email from cake that in part reads:
Unfortunately, it looks like your Rolling Updates membership expires in 30 days. You'll get to keep everything you've received during your membership, but you will stop receiving updates once this date is reached.
If you would like to continue receiving Rolling Updates for SONAR Platinum, simply renew your membership using the link below. For a limited time, you can get Lifetime Updates for SONAR Platinum. This means you'll continue to receive Rolling Updates, and you'll never need to renew or upgrade again!
 
The link goes directly to the buy lifetime update for Sonar Platinum - there is no choice to pay monthly membership.
So when monthly membership payments came in they were singing their praises and what a wonderful way to do business. 
It seems fairly clear Cake are going to expand there selling of 3rd party software and extensions to the core. The problem with that is if you already own the 3rd party software you are most likely to get a better update price from the source.
If anyone has found out how to continue monthly payments specifically for Platinum then please reply. 

When I log in to the store, I still find the options for annual and monthly payments.

vmw 
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It seems fairly clear Cake are going to expand there selling of 3rd party software and extensions to the core. The problem with that is if you already own the 3rd party software you are most likely to get a better update price from the source.
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I agree with you about 3rd party software.  In my case I bought Addictive Drums and the AD2 upgrade long before they were included in Sonar so in one sense I paid for them twice. The future of Sonar Core will be interesting to watch.  With no direct revenue stream the Core may indeed be a vehicle for sales of their own extensions or third party extensions.  It may be that the cost of ownership is lower than before but it is also possible that it will become even higher.  In the past year I have been asked to pay $150 in 2015 and $199 in 2016 for Sonar.  I decided to opt for a DAW that uses the old fashion pay-for-updates which are in the range of  $50 to $100 annually.
 
Cheers
 
 
[nb.  Edited for clarity ]

Here is a link to the Cakewalk store SONAR category page  https://shop.cakewalk.com/1244/catalog/catalog.1307/category.640460 where all version of SONAR and payment plans may be viewed. The direct link to the Platinum monthly payment plan product sheet is https://shop.cakewalk.com....60182/product.153202/

I don't understand how people go from this:


>For a limited time, you can get Lifetime Updates for SONAR Platinum
 
To this:
 
> The future of Sonar Core will be interesting to watch.  With no direct revenue stream the Core may indeed be a vehicle for sales of their own extensions or third party extensions. 
 
It's not like any of this is a mystery. September 1 can't come soon enough.

vmw
The link goes directly to the buy lifetime update for Sonar Platinum - there is no choice to pay monthly membership.
So when monthly membership payments came in they were singing their praises and what a wonderful way to do business. 
It seems fairly clear Cake are going to expand there selling of 3rd party software and extensions to the core. The problem with that is if you already own the 3rd party software you are most likely to get a better update price from the source.
If anyone has found out how to continue monthly payments specifically for Platinum then please reply. 

Monthly payments are still available for platinum. While we are selling lifetime updates the annual option is not available (for platinum). I don't see how the cost of ownership would be higher with this. Any future payments once you have lifetime updates is 100% voluntary.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
[...] While we are selling lifetime updates the annual option is not available (for platinum). [...]

The wording of this comment is ambiguous. After the life time update period expires, will the annual update option be re-instantiated, or will the monthly payment be the only option left?

With all regards, this is a bit like looking the gift horse in the mouth.. after all, currently for the price of an annual update you get a lifetime of updates... why bother wanting to know anything else?
 
IF and or when the lifetime update window closes, even assuming that annual updates are then available, the one thing that you can make a cast iron guarantee about is.. That there is zero chance that updates can ever be cheaper than they are right now, today.
 
If someone is so hard up for cash that they can only afford a monthly update, then I suspect that any financial advisor on the planet (and i include wives/significant others) would say "put the lifetime update on a credit card"..
 
Sometimes a good deal is simply a good deal. :)
 

mettelus

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
[...] While we are selling lifetime updates the annual option is not available (for platinum). [...]

The wording of this comment is ambiguous. After the life time update period expires, will the annual update option be re-instantiated, or will the monthly payment be the only option left?

mettelus

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
[...] While we are selling lifetime updates the annual option is not available (for platinum). [...]

The wording of this comment is ambiguous. After the life time update period expires, will the annual update option be re-instantiated, or will the monthly payment be the only option left?

There are no plans to exclusively have monthly payments for platinum. Not sure how you inferred that.

mettelus

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
[...] While we are selling lifetime updates the annual option is not available (for platinum). [...]

The wording of this comment is ambiguous. After the life time update period expires, will the annual update option be re-instantiated, or will the monthly payment be the only option left?

I really don't think it is ambiguous at all.

Whilst the lifetime update is available, who would want to pay for a year when you can get it for life?

When the lifetime offer finishes, it will go back to normal yearly and monthly updates.

People really are reading too much into this.

If Cakewalk had a history of skulduggery, I could maybe understand, but they have always been straight with their customers.