I have been waiting for a call back from support for almost 4 months.  i have been a loyal cakewalk user for 10 years.  I can no longer justify working with these guys.  It is an embarrassment that ANYONE who pays to have ANY kind of support should have to come on to the forum and BEG for a phone call from ANYONE to fix a couple of nagging issues.  I spoke with Mike Lally over a month ago and he was going to get RIGHT back to me with the fix for a couple of things, and he has emailed me ONCE to schedule a phone call that he didn't even show up for.  I hope someone at cake walk will take notice and get back to me after MANY email requests.  I am not asking for anything extraordinary, but this is a trainwreck.

MoodyB
Just to reply to myself, after getting a reply from support just now, I can sub to Platinum now & still get the Platinum Lifetime Update at a later date, as long as its before the end of December.
 
Happy days

Just remember to CANCEL your sub or you'll be charged again for it even after buying LTUs.

My regular subscription lasts until Aug or even Sep 2017.
In case the very special offer would come again in the festive season 2016, what would happen to the bucks I had spent for the remaining months in 2017? (You bet I wouldn't like to pay twice;-) )

Mad_Musicologist
My regular subscription lasts until Aug or even Sep 2017.
In case the very special offer would come again in the festive season 2016, what would happen to the bucks I had spent for the remaining months in 2017? (You bet I wouldn't like to pay twice;-) )

So they made the public announcement for Lifetime updates in June 2016 (this was after the leak of the announcements well before that).  Then you are telling me you proceed to buy a regular subscription 2 or 3 months after that?  
 
Sorry, your story isn't adding up here.  

No, man. I had bought my sub before that announcement. I don't have always spare money, but then I had so I thought to "take a chance". I prolonged my sub long before the old one was ending, so it became prolonged as I described. Maybe I should have written that in my first post.
You see, if I had had enough spare bucks in the period until end of Aug. this year, I might even have risked to buy that fine basket. But I didn't. Bad luck. Nevermind.

Sonar for OSX.
 
Please be careful with this and have a team that is "competition aware"  compare them other Apple based DAWS side by side.   Let us (the cakewalk community) get involved in some active way but not "cluster !@#$" way with the marketing and feedback.
 
It this is rolled out correctly and you succeed in the areas that distinguish you in the PC App sonar will begin blowing away the competition in the MAC arena. Two areas come to mind.
 
The community, the support, and they fast feedback and response to customers is hugely unaddressed in that market space.  You guys will KILL!
 
The other aspect is the unique approach to "tweeks" and small development styles that makes different aspects of sonar intrinsicly niche or "boutique".  Apple users will eat this up!!
 
So exiting that my usual sidebar conversation about  my favorite DAW "its only for the PC"
 
will be a thing of the past.
Best of luck

So fall is pretty much over now, isn't it? ;)

Not sure I ever saw a year associated with fall.

And that has been my worry too

Oh yes, im a lover of sonar, i began in 2014, bought music creator 6, and then decided to buy Sonar platinum feb 2015, i had not bought sonar this year when my 12months were up.......So the opportunity for lifetime updates was just absolutely irresistable!!!......thanx cakewalk.....and now also on mac........Question is, could i transfer work files between my pc version of sonar with my mates mac version of sonar?