Shreddi
They find a way to charge you for everything and anything.  Sonar Platinum? supposedly all future updates free unconditionally?  Does that include Win 10 or when ever OS changes?  We can spend thousands on chasing upgrades. Time to look elsewhere.  Check my account cakewalk. Have been loyal since the 80's.  You have been raping me ever since. 

jih64

Doktor Avalanche

Sonar is supported on Win7 and above. Win7 support will probably last at least a couple more years, and far longer of you update to 10.

I was just thinking about the eventual dropping of Windows 7 support, how would they do that ? I mean they would have to give some sort of official notification wouldn't they ? I mean if you purchase Sonar membership for a year, while Windows 7 is officially supported, aren't you purchasing membership for a product that supports Windows 7 for 12 months? Surely they couldn't change that mid cycle, and that would be hard to do as everyone's anniversary would be different.
If Windows 7 becomes no longer officially supported, and you had a problem, they would be under no obligation to help you out, etc . . . they could just say 'Windows 7 is not supported, sorry, can't help', that could quite feasibly come during the 12 month membership for a product that supported Windows 7 you purchased, wouldn't seem right to me.

What happens if I decide to renew my membership long before the initial period expires? Am I correct at thinking that purchasing SPlat again will add another year to my membership and not start a parallel countdown streak?
Now, what about bundled software? Will a new purchase allow me to get 3 more AD2 packs?

scook
Cakewalk has not started selling renewals and you cannot upgrade the same license more than once.

scook
I only mentioned upgrades in my initial reply because of the mention the bundled AD2. Only those who upgraded or purchased a new copy of Platinum received the AD2 Producer pack. ATM the only way to receive another AD2 Producer pack would be to upgrade or purchase a new copy of Platinum and one can only upgrade a single license one time.

Dana Harris
I considered upgrading again but after observing the direction that Gibson Corp. has taken Cakewalk & compounded by posts read here it is certain I will not be upgrading from Sonar X3 any time soon. Software subscriptions are marketing scams that nobody should buy into. These companies should simply sell the user licenses & then maintain there products. Don't sell a product & then bleed customers for money to fix the bugs & there is always bugs. They should simply fix the bugs & distribute the patches, not charge us to fix faults in a product we have already paid for. Everybody needs to realize that this monthly yearly thing is a scam at best. I have paid for multiple upgrades of Sonar before the subscription scam & wish I would have leap frogged a few of them. Could have saved not only money but time learning elements of the software that was left behind. The only thing that justified money spent on the upgrades was added third party plugins. Only a few of the actual software enhancements to recent Sonar upgrades have been worth while. The rest of what they marketed as upgrade was little more than software bloat for implementing tools that were already their & of coarse color coding & other customization abilities that I never waste time with. As for the stripped down third party plugins that are added for their so called upgrades, those can be obtained directly from their parent companies anyway, so what are we actually gaining? Not to mention the refusal to offer upgraded drivers for older tried & true hardware interfaces that so many people love & still use, which worked perfectly with versions prier to X1. After reading how grand some claim that Cakewalk support is, based on the prier sentence I respectfully disagree. Don't get me wrong folks I've used Cakewalk since the 1990s & at this point it has become as good as any DAW & will continue to use until forced otherwise, which may be soon the obvious competitors are sadly looking better all the time. I'm just offended by the marketing scams these companies employ to pick our pockets & it is time to say NO! If & when they offer a true upgrade I'll be the first in line & happy to spend but until then this trickle down nonsense they're pushing on consumers has to stop & only the consumer can stop it. Don't be conned into buying little of nothing because over the coarse of one short year that is all you're likely to get. Keep in mind the filthy riches of monstrous Corporations such as the Gibson Corp. as they dip into your bank account each month.
 

Dana Harris
Didn't state that anything couldn't be done. As far as being a Troll, today is the first & only time I've ever posted on these forums & considering how long it has been since the last post here the quick response of you morons indicates who the Trolls truly are. I looked at these comments in consideration of further upgrades but found only more Corporate marketing fodder that simply pushed me away from it. The only thing this new software can truly do is coarse a different path to the same destination. I have no objection to people wasting money on duplicate tools dressed up in a fancier façade but I'm not going to. Digital sound production is a joke anyway. Have any of you fools ever heard the analog mixes from the 1970s played back on a good turntable? Nothing in this digital age is better than that stuff. The only thing digital accomplished was loudness which equates to the distortion that recent generations of listeners think is normal & a good sound, it is just pathetic. So you obviously well educated fellers can go ahead & put all your faith into the marketing Bull of these false profit software companies if you like. Regardless of the medium that I'm forced to use I still choose to live in reality. The reality being that the Corporations are there for the money & nothing else. Strip all of the electronic & or mechanical equipment away & only the real musicians will step forward to continue pounding out music with a stick & a log while the rest of you wander in dismay without your modern toys to prop up your lack of everything.