Fernando
I am a Cakewalk user since the DOS days. Love it and it's the DAW I know the best. But here is a question from a Canadian, regarding upgrading the SONAR X3 Professional to the Ultimate. I want to take advantage of the $99 upgrade deal. I was about to do it, until I saw the price in $175CDN. Could someone at Cakewalk kindly explain how they have arrived at this price? Today's rate: 1.00 USD = 1.45235 CAD
Thank you.

Not a Cakewalk employee, but the $99 deal is not an upgrade it is a renewal of membership.  I believe the upgrade to get you on the Platinum product would be more expensive.  Unless you have a link to said $99 upgrade deal?

Thank You NeoSoul,
 

Excellent news ! Looking forward to this years updates. I just renewed for 2016 here we go !
 
Blackie

Have to say I was very skeptical too about the new business model and the Gibson takeover. As a lecturer in a Pro Tools-centric music production college, I have questioned whether I would want to switch to PT, particularly as I'm building a small commercial production studio too. However, I've not only been impressed with the monthly features like Drum Replacer, comping and the engine updates but for me now, Sonar isn't just another daw, it's something I am committed to.  For mixing, writing and training it works incredibly well.
 
If I had two requests, it would be:
 
1. Do something, anything!!! to the staff please... it's the one thing I came to Cakewalk midi sequencer v2 for in the 90's and it's barely changed!!! PLEASE!!!
 
2. Give it some live VST host functionality like Abelton 
+ 1 for Anxiousmofo 

anxiousmofo...looking for a deep Matrix overhaul...will have to go to Abelton in order to get the functionality I want.  I'd rather not have two DAW's, though! 

 
3. Keep working on touch control - it's getting interesting!!!
 
This year I have absolutely no hesitation in renewing my subscription. 
 
Keep it up guys, 2015 was a great step forward!!
 
Gary 

Hi Fernando
 

Fernando
I am a Cakewalk user since the DOS days. Love it and it's the DAW I know the best. But here is a question from a Canadian, regarding upgrading the SONAR X3 Professional to the Ultimate. I want to take advantage of the $99 upgrade deal. I was about to do it, until I saw the price in $175CDN. Could someone at Cakewalk kindly explain how they have arrived at this price? Today's rate: 1.00 USD = 1.45235 CAD
Thank you.

 
 
Is the $ to $CDN higher than expected due to Canadian tax being added on? I had a similar issue converting to UK pounds. $99 converts to £69.53 but was quoted £84 in the Cakewalk store. When I added 20% for British tax it rounded up exactly! Perhaps that's the answer?
 
Hope this helps,
 
Best
 
Gary
 
PS - Super cool blues rendition of the Beatles! Love it!  

Hi Steve,  yes your absolutely right, I've used it and it works well too. But it's one of those little things that should just be done like ...  "bang! move on...."   at the moment, there is just a little bit too much left brain/right brain going to adjust and copy etc.  (the roller tool works here too).
This isn't really the thread to focus on wants and wishes - I'm sure there will be one later and we have the upcoming tool in Q1 for enhancement requests (what are they letting themselves infore there?)!. For my 2pennies the piano roll window needs some dedicated quick link buttons of number of commonly used commands (Sort of like the assignable commands in the main ribbon on the front page, or an expanded range of things that pop up when you press control/T  (or whatever the correct terms are!).   I'm content to wait to see what comes ....

garyhb
Hi Fernando
 

Fernando
I am a Cakewalk user since the DOS days. Love it and it's the DAW I know the best. But here is a question from a Canadian, regarding upgrading the SONAR X3 Professional to the Ultimate. I want to take advantage of the $99 upgrade deal. I was about to do it, until I saw the price in $175CDN. Could someone at Cakewalk kindly explain how they have arrived at this price? Today's rate: 1.00 USD = 1.45235 CAD
Thank you.

 
 
Is the $ to $CDN higher than expected due to Canadian tax being added on? I had a similar issue converting to UK pounds. $99 converts to £69.53 but was quoted £84 in the Cakewalk store. When I added 20% for British tax it rounded up exactly! Perhaps that's the answer?
 
Hope this helps,
 
Best
 
Gary
 
PS - Super cool blues rendition of the Beatles! Love it!  

Thanks Gary .. I think you are right.  and thank you for listening and for the kind words.
 
Fernando.

Silo99
Arrangement page request - (copying things into Chorus/Verse/M8 etc)
I think from rereading this thread, its the no.1 request for many people right now.  Yes need this 1000%  can it please be there in the Q1 workflow improvements!?  (pretty please).

Please check out my most recent Friday's Tip of the Week. While it's not a dedicated arranger, it accomplishes the same results and in some ways, is better because you can do "fractional arranging" easily - for example, just move the rhythm section around, just the background vocals, etc.
 
This will become even more useful on Friday, when I upload the next tip of the week on creating a scratchpad in SONAR.

Anderton

Silo99
Arrangement page request - (copying things into Chorus/Verse/M8 etc)
I think from rereading this thread, its the no.1 request for many people right now.  Yes need this 1000%  can it please be there in the Q1 workflow improvements!?  (pretty please).

Please check out my most recent Friday's Tip of the Week. While it's not a dedicated arranger, it accomplishes the same results and in some ways, is better because you can do "fractional arranging" easily - for example, just move the rhythm section around, just the background vocals, etc.
 
This will become even more useful on Friday, when I upload the next tip of the week on creating a scratchpad in SONAR.

^^^ Yes do this, while not quite the same as the dedicated Arranger Track in the likes of S13, as Craig says the end result is the same, and be sure to check out this Fridays scratchpad in Sonar tip, something I am certainly looking forward to seeing.
 
Having said that, don't stop requesting and talking about things like the arranger track and scratch pad type stuff, you never know, Cakewalk may just here you, wouldn't surprise me in the least if Cake put their own spin on these features and implement them into Sonar, but until that time, you have the next best thing to a native implementation.
 
I could of swore it was Friday already

I have Cubase AI 8 and Studio One 3 Artist. I haven't installed any of them, I thought they will put load on my DAW PC.
My question is if I install them :
Will I be able to explore any good feature what my Platinum is not giving?
Will I be able to utilize Chord Track, Arranger Track, Note FX, MIDI effects etc and bring the results in Sonar?
Will the VSTi installed by the process of installation of these two can also be accessed from SONAR?
 
Regards
S Ghose