scook


Your posts are making a lot of assumptions. How can you determine what is cost effective for someone else? I do not like to work on my car. It's not hard, I just don't want to do it. I am willing to pay to have it done but I still don't mind saving a buck or two. Is there anything wrong with that?

lol. I'll ask you the same.   How can you determine whats cost effective for the OP by just blindly recomnding a somewhat expensive option?    Nothing wrong with that,  but he is asking for opinions and just going for a DAW builder isnt necessarily the best option.  It can be.  but its a little expensive.  So if thats any consideration,  there are other options and opinions.   Not looking to fight so please relax and enjoy your Sunday.  :)

The only recommendations that I made was contact the vendor to find out specifics. I do not believe that constitutes a suggestion of purchasing anything.

scook


mixmkr: You are not eligible for that tier of pricing. If you want a DAW builder to build a new DAW with X2 on it, you should contact them before you try to buy anything directly from CW. If you want to buy X2 yourself (and install it yourself or supply the reg info to the DAW maker), you will have to select the product you want and the price tier appropriate to your current version of SONAR.

I know that...it was an example.....
 
if a thread can turn into a train wreck.... 

The reason I suggest contact the vendor directly is CW has stopped selling X1 but the retailers are still selling X1 and you might be able to get the "buy X1 get X2 free deal".

mixmkr


IOW, if I have Sonar 7PE, they can install the upgrade to X2 and all the ProChannel stuff as well on a new machine?
 
I asked this AND some other questions in the X1 forum...sorry if it qualifies for double posting.

Yes.
 
You just pay the price for the upgrade from 7PE to X2.
 
They can put it on with your reg no you'll then get 30 days to authorize it to your account.
 
There is no difference between an upgrade version and a full version as far as I know aside from the price you pay so I would imagine all you'd need to supply is the serial number from your purchase which you can then use to authorise your installation on your new machine when it arrives.
 
They will deal with this kind of thing all the time just drop them a line they will give you the full low-down on how to proceed.
 
@Mandrake I'm sure Mixmkr knows how to install software by now, I think he just wanted to know if he could have it pre-installed on a new build without having to pay full retail when he qualifies for the upgrade path.
 
HTH

I may be wrong, but I gather the person has an apparently non qualified version to upgrade to X2 and wanted to know if a builder could use their license to upgrade his system.  If this assumption is correct, the answer would be no.  The builder would need your "qualified" product serial number to install X2 "upgrade version".

I don't know about the X2 "upgrade version", but I started with Sonar V7 and have "upgraded" to every version since.  I built a new PC and wanted to just install the latest "upgrade version" that I had.  But it wouldn't install as it had to see the older version already installed on the PC before it would install.  I had to reinstall the older version, with the Serial Number and Registration Code, then the newer upgrade version installed OK.

fireberd


I don't know about the X2 "upgrade version", but I started with Sonar V7 and have "upgraded" to every version since.  I built a new PC and wanted to just install the latest "upgrade version" that I had.  But it wouldn't install as it had to see the older version already installed on the PC before it would install.  I had to reinstall the older version, with the Serial Number and Registration Code, then the newer upgrade version installed OK.

First off...thx to Jonbouy for understanding my question.
 
Now...the above is what I was afraid of, however the versions would install "side by side"   Not a show stopper, but I'm sure a commercial builder would know all what needs to be done.  Firebird's was the kind of response I was looking for too...  thx guys.

Sorry I did not understand your original post. FWIW, I recently bought a new PC and installed my X1 upgrade only. No previous version required. No previous information from a previous version was necessary except for my MP3 license which came on my ProAudio 9 disk (preSONAR) to unlock the MP3 encoder. I have never heard of a requirement to install a previous version. Each version of SONAR whether an upgrade or first purchase is a complete copy of the software not dependent on anything from a previous version. I started prior to SONAR and purchased every version of SONAR, all of which were upgrades. All versions can safely site side by side if you wish but it is not necessary.

The only  Sonar version I can recall that you haven't been able to do a clean install of is the 8.5 download version which required v8 to be in place.  Everything else you can install from scratch.
 
I already stated you'd likely have to supply your registration but you wont need to authorize it until you take delivery of your machine.
 
Hardware vendors do this all the time just check before you order your machine what the guys require and how much they charge for the service and you'll be good to go.  You will certainly be licensed to have X2 installed once you've purchased the upgrade, you wont have to start out all over.

Really you needed 8.x for 8.5? I might have forgotten that but I am looking at a 4 DVD set of 8.5 disks. While it has been years since I installed it and probably had 8.x on the machine, it seems like there are enough disks for a clean install without 8.x.