raymondm4
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I feel I need to make this clear for those that don't fully understand my point:
If AD3 comes out next year and Cakewalk includes it in Sonar, Those who have a subscription to Sonar Professional will get it but those with Platinum Lifetime will not (by the description on their site - http://www.cakewalk.com/June-2016#SONAR4Life)...
Where on that page does it say anything even remotely like that? I just read the page and I cannot for the life of me see how you could possibly get that idea from anything written there. It's mystifying.
This would make Professional the more feature inclusive of the versions within one year. I'm not trying to complain, just trying to cut passed the BS. If Platinum is to become a modularized professional DAW with less 3rd party features but more capability/expandability; and Professional is meant to be a more turnkey product for getting pros and semi pros started quickly, then it make since and I can work with that...
... but you seem to be literally the only person in this entire confused jumble of misinformation and, in several cases, apparently deliberate disinformation, that has that impression. I literally haven't seen a single other person who has distilled that particular notion from all of this. That's really a talent.
But don't blow smoke up my @ss. Cakewalk is a business, not a non-profit. They are in the business of making money, not losing it. And they do NOT have a business model based on volume sales.
Furthermore, If you have information so clearly explaining this, then please post links. Those of us that are commenting are doing so because the information we have found thus far is limited. So, be a pal and share your sources of info so we can know what you know to be so obvious, allowing us to stop asking the same questions twice. The term "take my word" does not apply in this day and age, so sources would be very welcomed.
I'm sorry, but it's very hard to post links that disprove a notion that you seem to have pretty much pulled out of a hat. But sure, I'll have a go. Look at the
feature comparison page, or the
rolling updates page. How on earth did you get the idea that Platinum was now or will in future have less included content than Professional?
Platinum is the flagship product that Cakewalk sells, the top tier of the Platinum family. The other tiers have *less* included content and features. That will remain the case, unless they streamline the product line in some way, and anyone who tells you there are immediate plans to do that is making it up out of whole cloth, unless *you* can find links where a CW employee has said so. If they are planning anything like that they're doing a remarkably good job of keeping it to themselves.
Finally, if I felt there was ANYTHING I could do to stop people from asking the same questions twice, or a hundred or fifty-thousand times, believe me, I would do it. But thus far I have seen no evidence that, for example, posting clear quotes from CW staff explaining things simply and unambiguously, will stop someone from asking the same question LITERALLY IN THE NEXT POST. It's quite remarkable, though also incredibly boring and frustrating. So once again:
I give up.