-francesco-
It it the same price so no discount I guess

Is your Sonar 8.5 LE listed under "My products"? If not, you can try to write to support to add it. I am not sure, but till new "simple" prices are there (from May 1, 2017, so handle fast), you probably can get some discount when the system recognize you as a customer.

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-francesco-
It it the same price so no discount I guess

Is your Sonar 8.5 LE listed under "My products"? If not, you can try to write to support to add it. I am not sure, but till new "simple" prices are there (from May 1, 2017, so handle fast), you probably can get some discount when the system recognize you as a customer.

It is listed under "my products", so I guess that's it with prices.

Upgrading SONAR to a more advanced edition

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Cakewalk-Announces-Simpler-SONAR-Prices-m3573984.aspx
 
Starting May 1, 2017, if you want to upgrade your copy of SONAR to a more advanced edition, you simply pay the difference in the current price.

• If you own SONAR Home Studio, upgrade to SONAR Artist, Professional or Platinum for $49.99 off the regular price.
• If you own SONAR Artist, upgrade to SONAR Professional or Platinum for $99.99 off the regular price.
• If you own SONAR Professional, upgrade to SONAR Platinum for $199.99 off the regular price.
• We will no longer offer discounts for any other editions of SONAR or from other Cakewalk products.

Ok, thank you very much. ps- I read that Sonar Home Studio includes 700 loops. So that means that it contains a drum machine to write drum parts and loops?

AS I wrote above SONAR Home Studio includes 6 instrument plug-ins: TTS-1, Studio Instruments Suite (Guitar, Drums, Piano and Strings), and Rapture Session.
 
Both TTS-1 and Studio Instrument Drums have drum sounds. Studio Instrument Drums includes some MIDI drum loops.

But does it include them in demo versions?

Demos typically do not contain much content because it is either from a 3rd party or is not copy protected. The demos are intended to demonstrate the functionality of the the DAW not the bundled content. Demos include a few DX format plug-ins and in the case of Professional and Platinum some Prochannel plug-ins.

I mean...does home studio include the 6 instrument plug-in you listed in demo version or normal version?

AFAIK there is no demo for SONAR Home Studio but if there were it would not contain all the instrument plug-ins because most plug-ins bundled with all versions of SONAR are not copy protected or locked to the DAW in any way.

I did not mean demo version of Home Studio but of - for example- Studio Instruments Suite or Studio Instruments Drums or Guitars