trmusic
Is it possible to still get the Braintree version update?  I downloaded the Cambridge release, but missed downloading the Braintree version, so am still running the original release from January.  I'd like to update from that, but would prefer Braintree for now, based on a couple of the known bugs in Cambridge.  Any way to do this?
 
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With the current way Cakewalk rolls out updates you will always have access to the latest installer in your user account for direct download or access via CCC. You will only ever have installers from the time you activate your membership by downloading Sonar and activating it. The same goes for having an upfront membership and skipping a particular months release. While content will be a seperate installer, Sonar will always be the latest available.

Ok. Just bought the Sonar Platinum upgrade from x3e. About to install. Wish me luck that all is smooth. Nervous and excited.

@dakasky: The switch is so transparent you won't even know you're in a totally new DAW.

mudgel
[The same goes for having an upfront membership and skipping a particular months release. While content will be a seperate installer, Sonar will always be the latest available.

Does this mean that to roll back to a previous version, you have to have previously installed that version on your machine?   (so as to then have the previous version's installer locally)
 

I'd say so considering you only have access to the current download for Sonar at any one time.

I think rollback is possible/with reservation, even if the files are not kept local. Noël assured us that at whatever level you buy in, those files will always be available for access. I think it's complicated though. If I'm on Cambridge and its stable why would i want to roll back to Allston or Braintree. I would find that out at time of installation. The community very quickly finds out whether a release is stable or not. I can't find a logical reason to roll back other than its mine and I want to.

If you buy in now whether it be for the year or month,, the installer is Cambridge not Braintree or Allston. It's clearly a stable version despite a few bugs of inconvenience but no show stoppers.. Once you're in the membership though there's no reason why you can't wait to update on the monthly releases if you want to. Each version update is rolled into the previous ones so there only ever one Sonar and that's the current one.

The version lines have now been blurred and we no longer will have definitive X2, X3 type releases.

There is Sonar Artist, Pro or Plat at whatever time you purchase. In a way I guess that Sonar has become a moving target as far as the precise Sonar executable version you will get.

That should apply to content as well. Eg The Brian Hardgroove loops that came out with Braintree I imagine are not included with any Sonar purchase now at Cambridge time. They will be available for purchase in the Cake Store at some later time we've been told.

mudgel
If I'm on Cambridge and its stable why would i want to roll back to Allston or Braintree.

Maybe because the Control Bar bug drives you crazy ?  Just an example, but it's for situations just like it that we were told the rollback was to be of use.  Say you skipped a release or two because things were stable, then update and find something wrong, you can only roll back to the last update you did, not the most recent-1.
 
So it may be a good idea to download every installer even if you don't use it.
 

Paul P
 
So it may be a good idea to download every installer even if you don't use it.
 

Can't say I see any negatives with that... and just store them elsewhere if working from an SSD.
 

I have every single installer I've ever bought and downloaded from anywhere, not just Cakewalk. That's apart from software on disc/s and HDD.

Ditto, well I did have a clean out a year or 2 ago, where I through away stuff I'll never use again, 32bit stuff etc. Just done a hard copy backup (well almost finished) to DVD of the stuff I have installed and use now, 46 DVD's, probably crack 50 by the end, that was a mission, plus I have it all stored on an internal drive on each of my music computers, and copies on 2 external hard drives, plus the original downloads on one of my laptops and external drives I use for the Internet.

has anyone tried a rollback yet? i'm wondering if it's as simple as uninstalling one version and installing another, just as if one had collected the installers and performed the uninstall/install manually