Dave000
It truly is a shame that we live in an age where people can't tell when they are being deceived and don't have the intelligence to see what right in front of them and their argument is pure illusion... maybe all you kids on here should ask mommy or daddy how to interpret the truth of the upgrade ad...

Apparently you missed the heading immediately above the list you quoted. The heading says:
 
Cakewalk SONAR Platinum Features:
 
Every one of the features you listed above is indeed in SONAR Platinum. There is absolutely nothing untruthful about that statement.
 
Furthermore, the catalog description does not say "Upgrade for Plat and Get:" For the record, here are the references to upgrading:
 
NOTE: This is an opportunity for registered users of Cakewalk products to upgrade to a full version of Cakewalk SONAR Platinum from SONAR X3 Producer. To qualify for this reduced-price upgrade, you must be able to provide proof of eligibility. For more information, please call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer.
 
Maybe it's just me, but I think that's pretty clear.

michael diemer
Don't feed the Kraken.

Release the Kraken! instead - lol

Craig you are basing your argument in "implication" and it is "not implied" anyplace in the ad that you don't get 57 FX...
 
By the nature of this ad you are buying an "upgrade", so anything listed as part of the title "upgrade from X3 to plat" with a list of items you get with plat "denotes" any previous agreement regarding X3 and all items associated with X3. there for if it's in the ad they have to give it to you... including new licenses.
 
I have never seen CW say "once you upgrade" you cant use older versions as well. Most likely it was that way to keep customers to work across versions and for me... working with different versions to work around bugs and to have access to old CW plugins that I paid for that don't work in plat.
 
I'm not sorry that I see things as they truly are.... all CW has to do is fix the ad and make it clear....
 
The problem that I had has been fixed... but I'm going to push this on principle...
 
lol
 
 

Dave000
I bought X3 Pro and it cam with So here I go again and it came with a copy of Melodyne Essential. I got a serial number.
Now I buy Sonar Plat and that comes with a copy of Melodyne Essential. so why am I not given a another serial number?
 
I recently bought two cars from the same dealer but I only received one steering wheel... oh never mind! Get my point!

Perhaps the OP should read the OP and realize he undermined himself as intelligent out the chute.

As someone who has been "downtown" (DC) often, I have been a bit entertained with your posts and can only offer "Good luck with that" to you.

mettelus

Dave000
I bought X3 Pro and it cam with So here I go again and it came with a copy of Melodyne Essential. I got a serial number.
Now I buy Sonar Plat and that comes with a copy of Melodyne Essential. so why am I not given a another serial number?
 
I recently bought two cars from the same dealer but I only received one steering wheel... oh never mind! Get my point!

Perhaps the OP should read the OP and realize he undermined himself as intelligent out the chute.

As someone who has been "downtown" (DC) often, I have been a bit entertained with your posts and can only offer "Good luck with that" to you.

I'm a song writer.. I write word and I talk off kilter on purpose... rambling randomly in and out of alternative speech patterns...
I drive my family nuts, but its just an obscure way of communicating.
there is no point to any of this... and I'm triple-tasking...
 
I have nothing agent anyone here, its just debate.. in other words "I really don't care".. ;)
I just do it....
 
   

This has been addressed by a Cakewalk employee here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3166564
 

Joey Adams [Cakewalk]
If you already have a Melodyne Essentials serial number from a prior purchase of SONAR X3 Producer, you should not receive a NEW Melodyne Essentials serial number from a purchase of SONAR Platinum. There are circumstances in which you may have been issued a new serial number due to the way your account was set up at the time of purchase (of either SONAR X3 Producer, SONAR Platinum, or both), but in the vast majority of cases, you should only have one Melodyne Essentials serial number in your SSO account. 

 
I opened a real support ticket asking about it, they responded and also went and posted in the thread it came up in.
 

People still seem to be struggling with the correct procedure here, I shall re-post:
 
1. Hover over username
2. Click 'Block Member'
3. Tea
 
Remember:
 

 

ston
People still seem to be struggling with the correct procedure here, I shall re-post:
 
1. Hover over username
2. Click 'Block Member'
3. Tea
 
Remember:
 

 

Don't be so hard on your self.............

Types of False Advertising

Today's regulations define three main acts that constitute false advertising: failure to disclose, flawed and insignificant research, and product disparagement. The majority of these regulations are outlined in the Lanham Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C.A. § 1051 et seq), which contains the statutes that govern trademark law in the United States.
Failure to Disclose It is considered false advertising under the Lanham Act if a representation is "untrue as a result of the failure to disclose a material fact." Therefore, false advertising can come from both misstatements and partially correct statements that are misleading because they do not disclose something the consumer should know. The Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988, which added several amendments to the Lanham Act, left creation of the line between sufficient and insufficient disclosure to the discretion of the courts.
 
What is the ad? "an upgrade" What's in the upgrade? Everything listed in the ad.... 
Was it "disclosed" that you don't get anything in the ad? No! 

I sense a classless action case...