Bristol_Jonesey
With respect, I don't think you know what you've got in your toolbox.
For a start you have the Sonitus suite (which put us all in good stead for a good number of years), you have the Classic Creative Suite, there's the Studio Mixing suite which includes all of the Blue Tubes plugins (there are 6 different EQ's in this suite), and even without the flyout, the QC in Professional is far from "unusable".

The Sonitus stuff is extremely dated as I mentioned, the Prochannel EQ is just too tiny, not even the text fits there properly. Try it on 4k like I do.
 
The BT suite is in fact the only good tools in the Pro version, but these
1.) are analogue style in design and sound
2.) lack a graphical band EQ with waveform display
 
But I'm not going to continue arguing about this. Earlier I mentioned that Pro is not good for me in particular. Other people, vocalists, guitarists, might be pretty happy about the compilation. Other people complained about the same things before I did.
 
When I first came to this forum and asked what Version I should buy one smart guy (this time no sarcasm) recommended to me I should go with the cheapest "Home Studio" version and use the money I saved on external plugins and instruments like Omnisphere. I should have listened, cause now I'm buying those tools anyway. Cause I lack them.
 
I'm definitely not a hater towards Cakewalk. But they want to sell me stuff and I want to buy. They should consider my customer feedback as free input what some people need and what not.
 
I asked a clear question and didn't receive an answer yet BTW.
By the time I figured that I have payed already more than the Artist Version would have cost and I'm sure they not gonna return any money to me. So it was probably pointless to ask for myself. You guys should consider answering this question anyway, cause lots of Googlers might have it, too. 

mettelus
In all honesty, 3rd party plugins are required to fill gaps, and once you have those a host simply needs to be a host. That said, all hosts do not allow 3rd party plugins, some functionality (like VST3), or other variations, so do not jump into anything without understanding that.

Stop attacking me on a personal level right now cause I dared to criticize your holy grail. Everything's shiny, we stupid folks just don't understand it. Sure thing.

Nobody has attacked you on any level!
 
mettelus was providing you with some sound advice which you have chosen to ignore.
 
To answer your original question - we don't know! Just contact Cakewalk directly if you want to downgrade.
 
This is a peer to peer forum which provides a valuable service to users with varying degrees of knowledge & experience.

Bristol_Jonesey
Nobody has attacked you on any level!
 
mettelus was providing you with some sound advice which you have chosen to ignore.
 
To answer your original question - we don't know! Just contact Cakewalk directly if you want to downgrade.
 
This is a peer to peer forum which provides a valuable service to users with varying degrees of knowledge & experience.

mettelus has suggested that I lack the knowledge to understand what I'm actually talking about, while providing a straw-man argument to weaken my position, falsely interpreting my previous post on purpose. You guys can continue to beat around the bush, I'm out. But I'm sure one of you wanna have the last word, so the stage is all yours now.

occide
I've subscribed for Sonar Pro, but after 6 month of testing and the LP modules not working for me I consider downgrading to the Artist version.
 
Is that possible? I mean without losing what I already paid.

To be clear, you have not subscribed to anything. You have agreed to purchase SONAR Professional and spread the payments over 12 months. If you want to change the purchasing agreement, contact Cakewalk directly. There is an email button at the bottom of this page. I am not sure if they will perform the downgrade or if you will have to contact Cleverbridge too. If you do downgrade, you will loose the Professional features and what you paid toward Professional will essentially be considered rental payments.

I'm not sure how the monthly payment plan works it would be best to ask that question here
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Cakewalk-Store-f79.aspx
 
I don't see why you couldn't change. It seems it should be as simple as stop paying for Pro and they will deactivate it. 
Sign up for Artist and it will become active. Actually Artist is pretty cheap I would just buy it outright. 
 
I bought Home Studio for $50 and you might want to seriously think about that as well. 
It's solid as a rock and for midi it's all I need As a core program it's a bargan. I have bolstered it up with extra VST's and I find no difference working with it than when I work on the full version because I , like you, don't use most of the stuff that comes with SPLAT. 
If you own Home Studio they will most likely send you cheap offers to upgrade down the road so your not stuck. 
 
 
 
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
If you are on Platinum there are some great plugins coming this month so stay tuned. By downgrading you will miss those :)

Hmmm sounds interesting!

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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
If you are on Platinum there are some great plugins coming this month so stay tuned. By downgrading you will miss those :)

Hmmm sounds interesting!

That thought crossed my mind.

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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
If you are on Platinum there are some great plugins coming this month so stay tuned. By downgrading you will miss those :)

Hmmm sounds interesting!

Definitely piqued my interest!
 
To the OP: Sorry you felt you were being attacked. I didn't read it that way, but I know what it's like to air your griefs on a forum and feel like it's falling on deaf ears. It seemed to me like there was at least a partial agreement with a suggestion not to do anything hasty out of frustration. Anyway, I hope you're able to work something out to your liking.

Do we really need more??? 
I think what we need is less and that the less is as solid as a rock ( or Country, folk Hip hop)00) .