kday
It would be foolish of Cakewalk to not offer X4 before their Christmas holiday when folks budget and expect to spend money on gifts and presents.
I've already read the posts after this, but I think it's too late for CW to announce/release X4 now, because it would further wreck holiday budgets. I've declined my spouse's offer of a Christmas present, yesterday my aunt asked me if there's any software out there want and I said not yet.
But I'm not waiting on CW, I have no idea if I'll ever upgrade to X4 (4 releases are jinxed for me personally, CWPA 4.5 was a kind of the gift from heaven that Sonar 8.5 was, and I'm not fond of 8 releases either) but it really depends on what other companies are doing.
X3e may still be quirkish, but it's pretty much bullet-proof for me, so I'm very happy.
I predict I'm going to spend in excess of $500 on software within 3 months (saving up due to paranoia) so as weird as it was to not hear anything about X4 in October, CW opening a new on-line store now with absolutely nothing I want to buy is even weirder.
CW should hire a college kid on vacation to call me daily and tell me why I should want... something. Ok, that would be harassment...
But what I've always loved about CW is that they've always inexpensively (and very effectively) filled voids in other things I couldn't afford, so my head reflexively turns this time of year.
Ok, to the point my account on the new site seems to indicate I've not "redeemed" some things that I'm pretty sure I have at some point - I don't need my history from '96 so that's fine - and I'm good.