sharke

Kamikaze
So many posts in the past 5 months, starting with their 'Cakewalk life story' . DOS this, Windows 3.1 that, Soundblaster, floppy etc...

LOL yeah that's been grinding my gears as well. It's like there's some kind of template going around. "Let me just say that I've been using Cakewalk since 1989. Here's a photo of my original floppies, which I still have. Here's a list of the versions I've used since then. I was shocked to learn recently that blah blah blah, lifetime updates, blah blah blibbety outrage disgust sadness disappointment." Does tend to get a little samey. 

Although myself, I have not been using Cakewalk software for such a long time, I really feel that your comments look alike a template the most, disrespectful in the first place!

pwalpwal
in the EU i think you could get yr money back under consumer laws were you such inclined

Dream on!

marled

sharke

Kamikaze
So many posts in the past 5 months, starting with their 'Cakewalk life story' . DOS this, Windows 3.1 that, Soundblaster, floppy etc...

LOL yeah that's been grinding my gears as well. It's like there's some kind of template going around. "Let me just say that I've been using Cakewalk since 1989. Here's a photo of my original floppies, which I still have. Here's a list of the versions I've used since then. I was shocked to learn recently that blah blah blah, lifetime updates, blah blah blibbety outrage disgust sadness disappointment." Does tend to get a little samey. 

Although myself, I have not been using Cakewalk software for such a long time, I really feel that your comments look alike a template the most, disrespectful in the first place!

 
Template? Pah! They were 100% original! I bet nobody's made an even remotely similar comment, ever. On any forum. 

markarbogast
I started using Cakewalk for DOS version 1.1 before color monitors and before Windows was invented. No mouse.
I have stayed with it all these many years even though there was always pressure from people in the business to use other software. I finally purchased the lifetime updates reciently. i would like to hope this will be honored by the new company. if not i will have to finally switch to Pro Tools. its a sad day.....

As Craig pointed out, Pro Tools will stop working the month after you stop paying.  Nothing mentioned by Bandlab so far suggests they have this terrible business practice in mind for legacy Sonar users.

markarbogast
...I finally purchased the lifetime updates reciently. i would like to hope this will be honored by the new company. if not i will have to finally switch to Pro Tools. its a sad day.

 
OK, you're disappointed about the lifetime deal coming to an end, but it's not clear why you think that switching to ProTools would be the next logical step.

CTStump
When I look at these thread's it befuddles me why a licensee doesn't read or understand the EULA, you know, that thing you check off when you load the software that you have to agree too BEFORE you install, that was with Cakewalk NOT Bandlab, as a reasonable assumption given the fact it's a different entity.

I suspect people don't read them because they're 50 pages long, contain mostly indecipherable legal jargon which does nothing for you but only protects the company, and if you don't agree to all of it you can't install the software you just paid for, and you can't return it, either. So there's no point in even looking at it. Just my opinion, of course.

worth remembering that a eula also has to be legal in the territory it is being applied (remember the whole you-can-resell-used-sftware-in-the-eu thing)
and yeah, nobody reads them because they're way too long and complex

marled

pwalpwal
in the EU i think you could get yr money back under consumer laws were you such inclined

Dream on!

https://europa.eu/youreur...s-returns/index_en.htm
although you will probably just join the queue of cakewalk creditors

pwalpwal

marled

pwalpwal
in the EU i think you could get yr money back under consumer laws were you such inclined

Dream on!

https://europa.eu/youreur...s-returns/index_en.htm
although you will probably just join the queue of cakewalk creditors

IMHO even that is only possible with a good lawyer in such a case.

Hola, creo que esto se complica todo lo que queramos, Gibson solto a sonar en una esquina, y [<font][<font]BandLab qizas tenga buenas intenciones, pero creo que si hay personas que tienen la opcion de por vida, esto nunca se puede olvidar.
[<font][<font]Es como un extra de mi coche si pague por ese boton la casa me tiene que responder y si la nueva casa lo comparar tiene que saber esto, creo que legalmente hay alguna ley que nos proteja, no soy experto pero seria intersante si esto tiene posibilidad legal. [<font][<font]BandLab debe ser consecuente.