Anderton
Since Gibson took over, you gained:
- The equivalent of two paid updates (this year's and next year's) for the price of one.
Very interesting. How does that work for people like me? I have a license for Sonar Studio X3.
If I pay for the update (say, Platinum), I will have the new version of Sonar, which includes the dot releases you will provide during the year to fix bugs and possibly add other features.
Where is the second upgrade? Anderton
Since Gibson took over, you gained:
- Regarding not "real sales," all I can say is that if you own X1 or X2 and want to upgrade to Platinum, open your emails (although X1 to Platinum for $199 already seems pretty decent to me).
I'm on X3 and my upgrade subscription would cost $360. At $199 I would have upgraded a LONG time ago!!!!
That said, I want to make my position clear: I have ONLY (read carefully!) criticized the timing of the BOZ offering along with the way it took center stage, giving people the impression it was part of the upgrade "goodies" (something any reasonable person would notice pretty quickly). In other words, I have offered constructive criticism on Cakewalk's marketing. I still think it's wrong - but that's just my opinion.
That said, I personally think the subscription model is a good offer because it gives people the best of both worlds: you can just buy the program outright (that's the way it has always been), you can buy the upgrade outright (as was always the case) or you can use the subscription. So,
we have what we always had and the subscription is just one more option. That cannot be bad for customers.
Two things have prevented me from upgrading:
1. Price - too high for
my budget ($360 is too much for an upgrade)
2. Sonar does not have an easy way of doing pre-roll punch in, like Reaper, ProTools or Samplitude. Yes, I can manage to do something very similar with Sonar, but it's far from ideal.
I'll wait until the price is more in line with my expectations. Perhaps a sale...