Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
 
 
No, if you decide to go renew at a monthly basis you will need to pay for 12 months to own everything you are receiving as part of the new renewal. If you opt out, you'll revert back to the version you paid for before you renewed.

Andrew,
 
Apologies for more Qs. Just trying to square it in my mind.

- Year One I pay $149 to upgrade to Platinum. I then own the software forever. However I get no more updates.
- Year two I choose either another $149 for that year OR I pay 12 monthly $14.99
- I CANNOT choose to opt in / out on monthly subs in Year two?
- If I do drop out of monthly subs say, 6 months into year two my software reverts back to the older version I own since end of year one? Dropping any new updates I already paid for in the first 6 months of year two?
 
Aidan

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Greeny
This stinks. I shall be voting with my wallet, hello steinberg.

I sense a recurring theme starting here. Any chance you can share what aspect you're not a fan of? Maybe we can help to clarify? If not, the feedback would be helpful for us either way.

I want to buy a daw, I want to know what I am buying when I buy it, I dont want to be teased tyvm. When I part with my hard earned cash I want to know what I am buying. You dont buy a steering wheel with the promise of a car in parts over the next 12 months do you? No! So why should we be doing this with our daws?

Did you guys fix the Concrete Limiter PC module that we paid for? No mention of Concrete Limiter from what I can see...
 

And to be clear I am not saying I think it is a bad update, how could I know? The model stinks not the update.

I like
 

Greeny

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Greeny
This stinks. I shall be voting with my wallet, hello steinberg.

I sense a recurring theme starting here. Any chance you can share what aspect you're not a fan of? Maybe we can help to clarify? If not, the feedback would be helpful for us either way.

I want to buy a daw, I want to know what I am buying when I buy it, I dont want to be teased tyvm. When I part with my hard earned cash I want to know what I am buying. You dont buy a steering wheel with the promise of a car in parts over the next 12 months do you? No! So why should we be doing this with our daws?

That doesn't even make sense. NOTHING HAS CHANGED unless you want it to. In fact this way would be better for your scenario because you could just pay for a month to try everything out and if you like it then you can buy the full upgrade and own it outright.
 
Seriously... nothing has changed except now you have an EXTRA purchasing option. It's brilliant and exactly what I suggested back when people were flipping out about the survey question on subscriptions a while back.

This new model gets folks like me who skip releases into your annual revenue stream. I really like Sonar. Count me in.

Questions.

My daw will now need to phone home to run Sonar Platinum? My Sonar X3 Pro rig is an offline machine. Do I now need antivirus software if it must be plugged into the web exclusively for this purpose? Which AV program do you recommend? A trip to windows 7 update is now necessary to plug up security holes.

and everything was working so well.

Beepster

Greeny

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Greeny
This stinks. I shall be voting with my wallet, hello steinberg.

I sense a recurring theme starting here. Any chance you can share what aspect you're not a fan of? Maybe we can help to clarify? If not, the feedback would be helpful for us either way.

I want to buy a daw, I want to know what I am buying when I buy it, I dont want to be teased tyvm. When I part with my hard earned cash I want to know what I am buying. You dont buy a steering wheel with the promise of a car in parts over the next 12 months do you? No! So why should we be doing this with our daws?

That doesn't even make sense. NOTHING HAS CHANGED unless you want it to. In fact this way would be better for your scenario because you could just pay for a month to try everything out and if you like it then you can buy the full upgrade and own it outright.
 
Seriously... nothing has changed except now you have an EXTRA purchasing option. It's brilliant and exactly what I suggested back when people were flipping out about the survey question on subscriptions a while back.

Yes something has changed, I pay the upgrade price, and dont get the updates right away. I dont know what I am buying how exactly is this better for me?

Beepster seems to have the right of it.
 
Well said Beeps.
 

Greeny

Beepster

Greeny

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Greeny
This stinks. I shall be voting with my wallet, hello steinberg.

I sense a recurring theme starting here. Any chance you can share what aspect you're not a fan of? Maybe we can help to clarify? If not, the feedback would be helpful for us either way.

I want to buy a daw, I want to know what I am buying when I buy it, I dont want to be teased tyvm. When I part with my hard earned cash I want to know what I am buying. You dont buy a steering wheel with the promise of a car in parts over the next 12 months do you? No! So why should we be doing this with our daws?

That doesn't even make sense. NOTHING HAS CHANGED unless you want it to. In fact this way would be better for your scenario because you could just pay for a month to try everything out and if you like it then you can buy the full upgrade and own it outright.
 
Seriously... nothing has changed except now you have an EXTRA purchasing option. It's brilliant and exactly what I suggested back when people were flipping out about the survey question on subscriptions a while back.

Yes something has changed, I pay the upgrade price, and dont get the updates right away. I dont know what I am buying how exactly is this better for me?

You not only get everything I just listed in my other reply to you, but a full extra year of updates as part of the 12 month membership if you're choosing to buy up front. Check out https://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Whats-New
 
I think you're mistaking what we've been up to for the past year. There is already a whole slew of new features and major additions.