Rent a Beepster: Will work for Sonar Lifetime Upgrade [SOLVED]

Update: Looks like I've got enough to go through with the upgrade. You guys are awesome. Thanks so much and ANYONE on the forum who needs some advice regarding Sonar workflows (or anything else) I will do my best to help.
 
Cheeers!
 
OP:
 
 
Hi, guys. Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I've been head down working on the pre-production of an old, long overdue album. Complicated stuff like time correcting, syncing, etc a whole album worth of live tracks as well as practicing to get back up mid 20's Beepster playing speed. I needed to focus but now I'm back. I hope everyone is well.
 
I feel a little sheepish/lame posting this and perhaps it's enitirely inappropriate (if so, mods let me know or move/remove) but I'm getting a little desperate to scrounge up enough cash to hop on the lifetime upgrade before it expires next month.
 
As some of you may know I lost any capacity to do any real work at real jobs due to physical disability so I've been focusing on my music and learning digital production to hopefully make a go of things and supplement my very meager "pension". Essentially the goal is to just make enough to buy extra groceries and music related items I need to keep pushing forward. Well that and keep myself reasonably sane. Not a sob story. Just pointing out why I can't easily come up with such a paltry sum for the upgrade. In my case, since I didn't upgrade this year, my lifetime price is $200 (well $229 CAD last I checked my account).
 
I've been working very hard the past few years to set up a little online music service and am close to officially opening up but I still have some things to sort out. Unfortunately the lifetime upgrade expires before I'll be able to fully launch so here I am.
 
The proposition is this...
 
If you need some guitar tracks done or think I can be of service to you in any other way (I'll post some sample tracks and list the things I'm proficient at in a bit) and want to hire me so I can get the upgrade before the deadline I'm in. I have been playing for over 25 years and most of that time playing in gigging/touring/professional bands. I have mostly been involved in metal, alternative/indie style, hardcore and blues based rock acts but can easily play/write tasty and appropriate material for most genres.
 
Alternatively if you don't have any immediate use for me but I've helped you directly or indirectly with my posts or just want to help a Beepster out by tossing a few bucks toward the cause that would be great too. I will step up my game again here on the forum by providing my usual (albeit meandering) step by step suggestions for workflow related issues.
 
Please note that although at this point I would probably be considered an "advanced/power user" I'm still not nearly as knowledgeable as some of the other guys. What I can mostly help with is getting new users over the initial growing pains or helping casual users figure out more complex, task specific stuff when they run into problems.
 
I will be doing that stuff anyway and am never opposed to getting questions via PM if I can help but as time wears on (my subscription ran out in March) my advice threatens to become less and less relevant as the program progresses.
 
I can also do grunt, production related work like advanced editing, setting up or programming drums, tweaking guit sim tones, etc to save people some time. For example if you have a day job and can only track on the weekends or whatever and can't/don't want to spend the endless hours doing the really tedious/boring tasks that are sometimes necessary to get right down to just playing I may be able to help out with that.
 
Although I've been mostly sepnding the past five years just learning and working on my own stuff I've been treating this like a real job (I worked my whole life since I was 15 until my body borked out on me so it keeps me active) and have Sonar or other audio programs open on my DAW from around 9am to 6pm everyday. It's easy enough for me to shift gears from what I'm doing to work on something else or test out workflows for others.
 
I have set myself up to teach online with video screencapture programs and webcam vids for both computer stuff and guitar lessons. My ultimate goal is to get a site up and running where I can post written tutorials, articles and videos for general consumption and most of them will be Sonar based. That way I can produce tutorials in between or based on my various personal projects or sessions.
 
Again there are far more qualified and experienced usesr here on the forum but I'm logged on perpetually and am generally available/have my DAW booted up 7 days a week between 9-10am and 5-6pm EST.
 
If anyone is interested or has any questions feel free to ask here or send me a PM.
 
Apologies (again) for being a broke arse lame-o but really this lifetime upgrade is definitely something I cannot let pass me by if I can help it.
 
Cheers and thanks.
 
PS: Although I am currently just trying to scrounge up the cash for the upgrade I am of course always looking for session/production/lesson work. The update is just currently my main priority.

Fair play to you Beep, you are brave!
 
I sold some unused items (24" monitor, a few 2gb RAM sticks etc..) on fleabay to pay for my lifetime update,  maybe you could do the same to get the fund rolling?
 
Best of luck.

PM' ed you.

is there not family who could give you the money, tap 4/5 of them for $50 each

Hey Beepster,  I don't think we've ever talked, but I've read many of your posts and remember you as a long time member here.   I can definitely relate to your situation.  I'm on disability and if it wasn't for my son working at Burger King (for minimum wage), we wouldn't have enough to pay for food.   Occasionally we'll have some extra money, and he'll buy a video game or I'll buy some DAW plugins.

So I just wanted to say good luck in your quest to buy the lifetime subscription.  If I had the money to help you out, I'd ask you to help me out with one of my songs.  But as I said, we're pretty short on cash flow around here as well.

I don't see why the forum members each can't donate $5 or $10  to you via your paypal account. I'm sure will when we are in agreement to do so. 

i just managed to scrape the money to get it myself, broke ass here as well just now

John
I don't see why the forum members each can't donate $5 or $10  to you via your paypal account. I'm sure will when we are in agreement to do so. 

Hiya, John. Hope you've been well. I figure there's still a month and a bit to go so we'll see what goes down. If it turns into another forum "sponsorship" type scenario I'll be busting my butt to help out around here as much as I can like I did all last year but of course... I intend to do that either way.
 
Cheers!

PM sent :-)

Looks like we're off to good start and it is ever so much appreciated. This really is a great place and I'm very lucky to have found it. :-)
 

John
Please I wont contribute or support this if you keep disrespecting yourself Beep. We all need a hand from time to time. There is no shame in asking for a little help from our friends. There's a song lyric in there somewhere. 
 
This forum is all about help. People have done remarkable things to help others. A few bucks given in a good cause is just another way for the forum to do what it does best. 
 
And no one is holding a gun to anyones head here. The way I look at is in the long run this could save the forum money. 
 

Heh, it just feels weird asking. I really wanted to have a nice slick webpage/blog and a nice catalog of tunes/services/vids ready to go before launching. Also after so many years (since I was a kid) working for every scrap I got I developed one of those silly pride complexes.
 
But hey, we do what we gotta when we gotta, eh?
 
Cheers!

@kitekrazy... I hear ya and Manchester does most of the stuff I regularly do reliably but there are still quite a few things that get in my way that I foresee getting resolved/improved at some point. To me really Sonar is probably about as important to me getting things done as a car is for others so being able to make the one time purchase and not have to worry about "tune ups" ever again is a huge deal. I'm not really sure why folks were getting so agitated over the lifetime offer. I decided to just stay out of that particular argument.
 
Anyway, guys... I'm out for the night. I'll reply to any messages in the morning (or later tonight if I get back up and start roaming about again).
 
Thanks again and have good night.

You got 'er, bud.
 
Cheeers!

I'm in too.
Sent you a PM.