a single person to install the software on 2 different computers (for example a desktop and a laptop), but the assumption is that the person will not use them simultaneously. I am not sure whether Cakewalk allows that.

yes they do allow you to install the software on more than one computer ..
but you're not allowed to use them simultaneously (I don't know how one would do that ..
but that's another topic ).

in fact, if and when you install Sonar 4, they have a new checkbox to
remind you of this. the wording of the checkbox made me re-read
the EULA ;-)

jeff

Thanks for inputs folks!

Matt

I guess I'll start stacking all my cakewalk boxes up next to my stack of obsolete Flight Simulator Boxes, which sits next to my stack of obsolete Front Page boxes, which sits next to my stack of obsolete MS OS boxes (back to DOS 3.11), which sits next to ....

Ya know, when I look back at how much money I've spent on software over the years....I could have supported 20 families in Sudan.

Mark

Ya know, when I look back at how much money I've spent on software over the years....I could have supported 20 families in Sudan.

I could say the same about my band equipment, studio equipment, cars, and beer. <g>

It's the circle of (consumer) life.

mtrainer
Ya know, when I look back at how much money I've spent on software over the years....I could have supported 20 families in Sudan.

Years ago I wanted to hook up my Dr 550 drum machine to my computer to see if it would improve the sound of my creative sound blaster as it played back MIDI files. So I bought a joystick/MIDI adapter cable. Inside the box was a freebie called Cakewalk Aprentice version 1. I loved it and used it for about a year. Then one day I wanted to print somthing from the staff view. But version 1 did not suport that feature. So I called Cakewalk and version 3 was just being released. I upgraded and bought every upgrade since then.

Because the first copy I had was a freebie and because all the rest were at the upgrade price, it was not until buying Pro Audio 8 or 9 that I had paid as much over the years as it would have cost me to just by that current version outright.

I thought that was pretty cool.

first I admit to NOT reading every entry in this thread
that said:
I have found that (most) of the old versions of CW that I have collected are still useful in some way or another - either because I still operate the hardware I originally installed it on, or because the old version did something that it's replacement didn't, or because I can use it to help someone else with a problem involving their copy (of the same version), or because I can show my friends (whenever they come by) what a dedicated Twelve Tone customer I am.
Now I have to get back to my S4 manual, so if you'll excuse me....

LOL Jeff I actually have a Win98 PII 450 sitting in my office unused right now....I was wondering why I was saving it

Make it a GREAT firewall for free.

www.smoothwall.org

Requires no knowledge of Linux, though that's what it runs on. You need to know a bit about networking (like which network card is which (inside or outside) in the firewall box), but the whole thing is pretty straightforward. You download a CD ISO image, burn it to CD, boot to that CD, fill out a questionaire of sorts (kinda DOS screen looking). Bang. You have a firewall. All of the details about it come up in a web site at the inside IP address on a selected port.

Licensing is screwey - you should see what the Church has to go through just to be able to print words so the congregation can sing along.

Let's say I open a "professional" studio, based around a computer system running Sonar. If the License I aqure as the original purchaser is only good for my use and my use only, then I guess it would be wrong for me to lease out my studio?? That doesn't make sense.

In the same sense, I have Cakewalk HomeStudio I bought years ago, I have it running on my old laptop, which my daughter is now the primary user of. I bought Sonar2.2XL, and upgraded from there to S3PE, so I have two Cakewalk licenses. If my daughter and I were a business, I guess it would be wrong to let her Farm out here services with the Laptop??

yup,

If you've bought Cakewalk 1.0 for dos and upgraded everyversion to S4, even though you have 13 copies of cakewalk products, you still only have 1 licence to use them all. That cannot be given away or sold.

And I learned to type before there were electric typewriters, although I think we had electricity.