ORIGINAL: thunderkyss

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??

If you opened a professional studio you would find yourself at some point learning the legal lingo and interpretations that impact your business. You and the business you own are legally the same entity if your business is a DBA. The work you do and the work you pay others to do is legally your work. Nonetheless, if you are doing work as a corporation, then you WANT the corporation to be the OWNER of all licenses except those licenses required by federal or state law to be that of individuals.

So... the moral of the story is that if you use Sonar in your business then you want to register the license in the name of the Corporation or the name of the DBA owner. When it comes to professional studios using Sonar, I would hazard a guess that most are small project studios run by one or two people.

My business, for example, is a registered DBA so everything is licensed in my name. The laws of New York State do not permit EULA agreements to differentiate a human entity from a business entity unless the EULA specifically mentions AND differentiates BOTH within the EULA. Without the differentiation, the language is interpreted as fully substitutable.

But remember, if you register software to your corporation and then shut down your business, you technically lost the license. This does not apply to a DBA because legally the DBA is merely another way of representing your own name.

ORIGINAL: ba_midi

Keep them for historical purposes ;)

Also, some of the plugins that came with the older versions are still usable, so if you have the space, just let 'em stay where they are.

Speaking of which, it somehow never occured to me that you could do a selective install and install only the plugins, until somebody mentioned it to me recently.

So my question is, do you or anybody else have a list of the plugs that have been included in all releases since PA8?

Thanks.

Can a 2001 version of sonar run on Windows 7 or 10?

You'll have to try it. It may be possible.

Probably using compatibility mode. Just select the last known OS it ran under... or the oldest one available.
 
 
In the future when you have a question like this you can post a new thread instead of resurrecting a 12 year old one. Haven't seen or heard from most if the users in this thread lately.