Now I understand the purpose of this fred is to help Bapu increase he post/thread count.
 
It was one of the only ways he could contribute to the sonar forum without having the fred moved to the coffee house, where obscurity flourishes.
 
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"where obscurity flourishes"
That is a phrase to ponder.
I love knowing how to type without looking at my fingers.
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mdages
You can't subscribe only for one month.

Sure you can. That is why monthly payment exists. But you can use it for this one month ONLY. 12 monthly payments make it permanent, but that is a kind of third option.
 

ChazEd
How Cakewalk will know if someone stopped paying?
 
Some people said Sonar will not phone home, so for upfront payment membership maybe a date check by the app itself is enough.

I will not dig 45 pages for CW statement, but as I remember:
* till you have 12 continuous payments, you get version which goes online monthly (or offline reauthorize monthly)
* once you have 12 continuous payments or up front, you have another version which does not force you to reauthorize monthly (but you can go online to get updates when/if you want)

Get the discount     : 149
Payment plan:        :  15 / month   180   the same as the old upgrade price
Rent/buy new copy :  50 / month
 
Lots of great options.
 
Say I want to use Sonar at a remote location, and/or at a studio that does not have it. I can "purchase" a new license for $50 per month, use as needed, and delete when finished.
 
CW benefits, I benefit, the project benefits, the client benefits.
 
Way cool!
 
 
 

 
On a different note, I see that the price for the new Sonar is the same in US$ or Canadian $.
 
This is not the case for other items in the store.  So a deal for us up here in the arctic.
 
 
 

ChazEd
How Cakewalk will know if someone stopped paying?
 
Some people said Sonar will not phone home, so for upfront payment membership maybe a date check by the app itself is enough.

I will not dig 45 pages for CW statement, but as I remember:
* till you have 12 continuous payments, you get version which goes online monthly (or offline reauthorize monthly)
* once you have 12 continuous payments or up front, you have another version which does not force you to reauthorize monthly (but you can go online to get updates when/if you want)




Ah, understood. Thanks!
 
I've missed all this info (long thread, me bad english).
 
I'm pretty sure I'll pay upfront, but I just wanted to know how it will work.
 
Again, thanks!

lludwick@nyc.rr.com
I believe it works this way:
 
If you do 12 monthly payments or a single lump sum for the 12 months and then quit at the end of those 12 months, you keep everything up until the day you quit.
 
So let's say you quit and then come back 3 months later on a monthly payment plan. On your first payment, you get all the content and fixes as of the day of this first monthly payment. Then let's say you go on paying for 6 months more, but then decide not to make any more payments. Your software reverts back to the last state it was in where you have completed a full 12 month payment.  That is to say it does not go back to the day you started paying monthly again, it goes back to 3 months before that where your membership has lapsed after a 12 month payment.
 
This is easy for CW to manage because when you complete 12 months they record the date. If you come back even 2 or 3 years later and get the latest version but do not complete the new 12 months of payments then the software reverts back to the old 12 month paid date it has on record.

This is correct. Now if you go 18 months consecutively for example, and then decide to quit, then you keep everything you received for the 18 months. You don't have to do another 12 months (in this case 24 months), another bonus for keeping the membership going. But let's say you renew again 1 year later, you will get the latest version and need to keep the membership for 12 months to keep everything you got on the date of your new renewal. If you opt out after a few months, you will have to rollback to month 18 build. The reason for this is so that customers can't opt out for a year, update for one month and cancel and get everything that's been released in the year they were away. Hope that makes sense. 

Paul P
 
On a different note, I see that the price for the new Sonar is the same in US$ or Canadian $.
 
This is not the case for other items in the store.  So a deal for us up here in the arctic.
 
 
 

That's our set price moving forward. So yeah it's a good deal right now. We'll be updating prices for other products in the coming weeks. 

Paul P
 
 So a deal for us up here in the arctic. 

Tundra dwellers need all the joy they can get.

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

lludwick@nyc.rr.com
I believe it works this way:
 
If you do 12 monthly payments or a single lump sum for the 12 months and then quit at the end of those 12 months, you keep everything up until the day you quit.
 
So let's say you quit and then come back 3 months later on a monthly payment plan. On your first payment, you get all the content and fixes as of the day of this first monthly payment. Then let's say you go on paying for 6 months more, but then decide not to make any more payments. Your software reverts back to the last state it was in where you have completed a full 12 month payment.  That is to say it does not go back to the day you started paying monthly again, it goes back to 3 months before that where your membership has lapsed after a 12 month payment.
 
This is easy for CW to manage because when you complete 12 months they record the date. If you come back even 2 or 3 years later and get the latest version but do not complete the new 12 months of payments then the software reverts back to the old 12 month paid date it has on record.

This is correct. Now if you go 18 months consecutively for example, and then decide to quit, then you keep everything you received for the 18 months. You don't have to do another 12 months (in this case 24 months), another bonus for keeping the membership going. But let's say you renew again 1 year later, you will get the latest version and need to keep the membership for 12 months to keep everything you got on the date of your new renewal. If you opt out after a few months, you will have to rollback to month 18 build. The reason for this is so that customers can't opt out for a year, update for one month and cancel and get everything that's been released in the year they were away. Hope that makes sense. 

As I admitted previously in this thread I was wrong. I was assuming the first 12 months constituted a completed membership. 

Released go get it.........