Will there be a SONAR 2015 demo?

2015/04/22 05:52:22

mudgel

I didn't actually do anything. The fix came from Cakewalk somehow. I guess through CCC that registered the program correctly.

I get the point about demo mode. It would
Be great if it was that easy but I've heard what Andrew and Noel said about having to create adenosine wasn't as easy as we think and there was quite a bit of work involved. I'm no programmer so haven't a clue really.

2015/04/22 06:05:46

subtlearts

mudgel
Be great if it was that easy but I've heard what Andrew and Noel said about having to create adenosine wasn't as easy as we think and there was quite a bit of work involved. I'm no programmer so haven't a clue really.

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Andrew and Noel created Adenosine Triphosphate? You're right, that can't have been easy...

2015/04/22 08:30:55

BobF

I can think of several challenges; moving target, new bugs that they rightfully prefer not to demo, piracy ...

2015/04/23 02:05:40

Susan G

I can see the reasons for not having a demo, but what I don't get is why Cakewalk made a point of saying they hoped they would release a demo earlier than with previous versions and then go totally silent on it. In this post, they said they hoped to release it on day 1.

-Susan

2015/04/23 08:40:36

mudgel

subtlearts
mudgel
Be great if it was that easy but I've heard what Andrew and Noel said about having to create adenosine wasn't as easy as we think and there was quite a bit of work involved. I'm no programmer so haven't a clue really.
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Andrew and Noel created Adenosine Triphosphate? You're right, that can't have been easy...

There's obviously a mad scientist at Cakewalk. Haha

Predictive text has gone mad and I didn't check. I think from the context it should read:
.......having to create 'a demo' wasn't as..............
I haven't edited the original error as it would make all subsequent quotes look even sillier.

2015/04/23 09:05:45

lfm

mettelus

As it stands today, if someone pays X dollars for a month, they can download (the current revision) and it reverts to demo mode. I cannot think of a single instance of potential customers being charged to demo software.

You could try Cubase or ProTools - they both demand a dongle to demo. That's $20-$30 right there, if you don't already have them. You can run Cubase Elements trial though - without any dongle.

My thinking is - if you're not ready to spend $10 to run for a month, you are not that interested anyway.
And after that it's reverting to demo mode - don't know for how long, if restricted at all - but you can demo all you want even after that, in a similar fashion as all demos do(except Reaper then, that never expires).

I think the demo debate has lost all proportions. Good that Cakewalk put all efforts to provide updates on a regular basis. Not spend rediculous amount of effort on making all shipped plugins revert and similar things. No matter what they do - they will not please everybody...