So I've been out of commission musically for the last couple years because of life stuff. I'm in the process of reading up now, but now I'm not sure what to do and was hoping maybe someone answering these questions would be extremely helpful:

1. I bought into the SPLAT Lifetime Updates couple years ago, but haven't had a chance to install it yet (still on X3). I'm getting around to locating my SPLAT exe buried in an email somewhere now, but is there any point in installing it now, and as of today can it still even be activated and updated to it's current/final version?


2. I want to stay current w/ the new Bandlab so I will definitely install theirs too, but do I NEED to install SPLAT in order to authenticate that I own it so as to position myself for the crossgrades I'd be entitled to w/ Bandlab in the future?

Sorry, but climbing out from under a rock sucks. Many thanks the help. I'll be reading up, but I was hoping to get an installation going in the right direction tonight. Ultimately it looks like I'll have to cut my losses on whatever I paid for the SPLAT Lifetime Updates deal before I even got to use it..

If you install Splat you can install all the extra goodies that came with Splat.
Then you can install the new bandlab version which does not come with that extra 3rd party stuff and be as if it does. I'm referring to addictive drums, melodyne essential etc.

And when you do this, make sure that the VST paths as defined in Cakewalk by Bandlab match exactly as they are listed in Sonar Platinum.  They way, when you go to use the VSTs from within Cakewalk by Bandlab,  you will see all of the plugins that came with Sonar Platinum.

What you need to install from Splat:

1. Celemony
   1. Melodyne Essential
2. XLN Audio
   1. Addictive Drums 2
3. Applied Acoustics Systems
   1. Lounge Lizard Session Sonar Edition
   2. Strum Acoustic Session Sonar Edition
   3. Ultra Analog Session 2
4. Boz Digital Labs
   1. Bark of dog
   2. Panipulator
5. Overloud
   1. Breverb Sonar
6. Nomad Factory
   1. Blue Tubes Bundle
   2. Blueverb DRV-2080
   3. Blue Tubes Analog TrackBox
7. Cakewalk
   1. Cakewalk Sound Center
   2. Rapture & Rapture Session
   3. Dimension Pro & Expansions
   4. Session Drummer 3
   5. True Pianos Amber
   6. Z3ta+ Classic
   7. Adaptive Limiter
   8. L-Phase Equalizer
   9. L-Phase Multiband
   10. PX-64 Percussion strip
   11. VX-64 Vocal Strip
   12. Channel Tools
   13. TL-64 Tube Leveler
   14. TS-64 Transient Shaper
   15. Cyclone
   16. Dropzone
   17. Roland GrooveSynth
   18. Square I
   19. PSYN II
   20. RXP REX Player
   21. SFZ Sound Font Player
   22. Alias Factor
   23. Classic Phaser
   24. Compressor/Gate
   25. HF Exciter
   26. Modfilter
   27. Multivoice Chorus/Flanger
   28. Parametric EQ
   29. Para-Q
   30. Tempo Delay
   31. BiFilter2

 
 
 

csnack

1. I bought into the SPLAT Lifetime Updates couple years ago, but haven't had a chance to install it yet (still on X3). I'm getting around to locating my SPLAT exe buried in an email somewhere now, but is there any point in installing it now, and as of today can it still even be activated and updated to it's current/final version?

 
You should be able to sign into you CW account to see (and d/l) your purchased software there. You should also find your registration codes there too. But you can d/l C3 (Cakewalk Command Center) and do it all from there. Here is the link: 
 
https://www.cakewalk.com/Command-Center
 
Yes it is good to install SPlat as the others have pointed out. You get a lot of stuff with it that can be used in CbB.
 
 

csnack

2. I want to stay current w/ the new Bandlab so I will definitely install theirs too, but do I NEED to install SPLAT in order to authenticate that I own it so as to position myself for the crossgrades I'd be entitled to w/ Bandlab in the future?

 
Join BandLab with the same email address that your CW account is under. That should take care of any cross-grade options in the future. But you don't need to install SPlat to authorize CbB. 
 

csnack
Sorry, but climbing out from under a rock sucks. Many thanks the help. I'll be reading up, but I was hoping to get an installation going in the right direction tonight. Ultimately it looks like I'll have to cut my losses on whatever I paid for the SPLAT Lifetime Updates deal before I even got to use it..

If you install C3 (Cakewalk Command Center) and then install SPlat, you will get the last released version with all the upgrades/updates to that point. After that it's game over. There is no more SPlat.
 
Might want to do the SPlat thig as soon as you can. We really don't know when the servers for it will be shut down. Or even if after that if the products we bought will be able to be authorized anymore. I am certain things will be OK. But you never know. Best to get your copy of the installation files before they shut the servers down at least.
 

Daibhidh
 
What you need to install from Splat:

That's a great list Dai. : )

One small change I would make if possible is to install the versions of applied acoustic instruments offered when sonar was dead. They can be used with other daws.

Wow thanks to everyone for the help here. I knew CbB was streamlined, but I didn't know it was that stripped compared to SPLAT w/ Melodyne et al being a big miss for CbB. So maybe my purchase of the Lifetime Updates isn't a total waste after all idk, don't matter now. Looks like I paid $168 for it. I'm sure a lot of you have horror stories of having spent much more money on this kind of thing only for it to be a total loss for whatever reason. So I guess any newcomers to this daw w/ no previous version will only have the stripped down Bandlab version available to them if they want this daw? I guess that's why CbB is currently free until they can make it a full fledged daw. Thanks Grem and for the links, I forgot that it wasn't an exe Audio Deluxe sent me back then but a reg code to get the daw from cakewalk. I'll do this today. And thanks a ton Dai for that list! That post alone has to be one of the most helpful for guys like me just getting back into all this. I've been a Cakewalk user since the dawn of pro audio 8. If nothing else I still have X3e though technically I guess it wouldn't be able to be updated to "e" if I had to reinstall. How it goes I guess.

dubdisciple
One small change I would make if possible is to install the versions of applied acoustic instruments offered when sonar was dead. They can be used with other daws.

Thanks, where are those post sonar versions found and how do I differentiate between those and (what I assume you're referring to) other versions that may be stock w/ splat? Thanks

If you got in on that, you should have an AAS account and the files will be in that account.