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  • Is Technical Support Dead? (p.6)
2016/11/04 07:54:56
pwalpwal
bigfrog
On the other hand technical support does appear to be dead.



"Oh no! All of our agents are booked!"
2016/11/04 08:02:14
Brando
ampfixer
I don't think he has a legit copy of a product to get support. He references Pro Audio 9.

I think the Pro audio reference was for the mp3 encoder. +1 for Aaron's mp3 patch linked to above.
2016/11/04 09:15:56
stevesweat
rworkman
My thoughts exactly. The first time a ran TH3, all was fine. The next session, NONE of the components were available. It prompted me to authorize. I clicked the authorize button, and of course it asked for a serial, so I canceled, and clicked the run as demo, which gave me 15 days. I ran till that until it expired, and had to do it again, while I still wait for a response from cake.


In TH3 make sure that you are using the Cakewalk presets. Uncheck the "see all " in the upper left hand "banks" section box and you will only see the banks that come with the version of TH3 that Sonar comes with. They include many banks that you must purchase or upgrade to use. When you try to use the banks that don't come free with Sonar then you will get activation messages. Don't know why it seems to default to "see all" when you can't use all. This is very confusing!
2016/11/04 09:22:44
pwalpwal
6 months since the OP! longer since the agents were all booked...
 
hey cake, any plans to get some agents unbooked?? (or just to get some agents?)
 
or are we witnessing the end of the "call back" thing?
2016/11/04 10:00:48
bigfrog
I didn't even bother calling as I recognize my issue probably would not be resolved via the phone...
 
I submitted a ticket 3 weeks ago and all I got was a link to the online help, when I said that did not help (I was more than aware of the help and the level of detail in my ticket should have tipped them off to that) I did not hear anything for a week.  Then I followed up and got an email reply telling me to try again after the latest Sonar update, when I said that did not help I did not hear anything for a week.  Then I followed up and got an email reply telling me that my ticket was escalated to so-and-so.  I replied thanks and I did not hear anything for a week, then I followed up and that was 3 days ago and still have not heard anything.
 
At this point I just want the $200 I spent six weeks back for the Platinum upgrade as its incompatible with some of my hardware.
2016/11/04 10:13:51
tenfoot
Jeez bigfrog........judging by the system specs in your sig you have been in the support queue since about 1991! 
 
Jokes aside I hope you get an answer soon. Very frustrating!
2016/11/04 11:11:05
bigfrog
Tenfoot - The fact that i can't get 64-bit Sonar to run on my 16-bit OS is driving me nuts!!!   ;)
2016/11/04 11:15:45
tenfoot
bigfrog
Tenfoot - The fact that i can't get 64-bit Sonar to run on my 16-bit OS is driving me nuts!!!   ;)



Haha - unbelievable, what with all that ram and two massive hard drives!
2016/11/05 06:38:26
monusharun
Coming back to original subject post re support - I have been having all sorts of difficulties with me upgrade to SONAR Platinum since I grabbed the life-time support option. Had Sonar Pro before this.  I am not a 'heavy' user this being more a pastime where I spend sometime doodling around with all the gear that I have.
 
I too could not schedule a "call", email support did respond within 3 days of my initial request, and I give them credit for that.  They did continue to respond a bit following that, then the support person I was dealing with said he had to pass on my problem to someone else, maybe it went beyond his level of expertise.  After that, no news, nothing in the mail, no support!
 
Surely the team at SONAR has tested the s/ware in all or most conventional conceivable setups - and I can imagine there are a gazillion such hardware configurations out there.  Having a system where Professional worked well enough that I never had to complain for the relatively simple work I started off with, I was completely surprised and upset when the upgrade failed so miserably!  BSOD every time I attempt to fire up Platinum. After that I even reinstalled Pro but that refuses to work now as well!
2016/11/05 07:37:56
Sanderxpander
A BSOD usually means a serious driver problem which doesn't technically have much to do with Sonar except that your new installation might be trying to access drivers that your previous version did not, and those drivers are crapping out. Make sure all your drivers are up to date and you have disabled (in device manager) all audio devices you do not want to use.
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