SONAR Demo now available

Excellent, already posted link on FB , and a FB music group.
I will notify people, very well done ;-)

Nice job guys!

That wonderful! Thanks.

Do I only see Artist and Professional demos because I have Platinum installed already?
 
BTW, great that demos are available
 
 

It is unclear on what Instruments and Effects are actually included in the demo.  It seems odd that the items that don't take up much space would not be included (obviously the 3rd party things like AD2 wouldn't be included).  Can we get more clarity on this?
 
(it basically only tells you what is included once you buy) 

I currently have X3 Studio and like it.  What features/functions are gained by going to Professional? Is there a comparison anywhere?

mudgel

NeoSoul
It is unclear on what Instruments and Effects are actually included in the demo.  It seems odd that the items that don't take up much space would not be included (obviously the 3rd party things like AD2 wouldn't be included).  Can we get more clarity on this?
 
(it basically only tells you what is included once you buy) 

This is the link from the first post that tells you precisely what's included in any of the three versions available to demo.
http://www.cakewalk.com/P.../SONAR/Try-SONAR#start

And there are further links on that page which take you to pages that tell you exactly what's included in each paid version

Thanks, I looked at that, which actually is why I raised the question.  The bottom of each section says (and more).  If the Demo only contains what is posted under each section - and the it contains "x" number of audio effects is very vague.  
 
I understand the differences in the paid versions.  Knowing what is in the demos would be helpful to those of us trying to get friends on board with the Sonar DAW.  

is it available without using cccc?

I currently have X3 Studio.
I received a few emails from Cakewalk informing me that I can upgrade to Professional for $79. However when I log into my account the upgrade price is $99. The time period to upgrade for $79 is running out.
I've emailed Support about a week ago enquiring about this - sadly no response to date.
 
So what's the trick or process to upgrade for $79?
 

Yes I clicked the "Buy Now" button and the amount in the Shopping Cart equates to $99.

South Africa

I have A couple of problerns with the Platinum demo. I currently own X3E Studio and purchased an upgrade to Melodyne Assistant. Works great in X3. After down loading CCC and then Platinum, Sonar asked if I wanted to use my X3 setup files and I did so. Upon starting Splat it crashed when trying to load Melodyne. I opened X3 to check the vst folder locations.. Splat complained, so i shut down X3. . Now, Splat loaded up and thought that Melodyne was a good vst3. Only now it crashed when I tried to create a region. So far, a little frustrating, but hey, it's a demo. However, upon loading up X3, it starting doing crazy stuff when using Melodyne. Trying to bounce the clip would result in a straight line of silence. I finally had to uninstall Platinum and CCC to get X3 and Melodyne back to normal.

I get that I can't run both plug in managers at the same time. But I can't demo Platinum without disabling Melodyne(I renamed the vst3 file temporarily). Also, if I load a file that is using Melodyne it causes weird problems. Actually, with the limited time I did demo Platinum I did not seem much difference from X3. I have not done any editing so that remains to be seen, but loading times, using Vsti's seems about the same. If I want to demo it more I will have to reinstall it. There should be a way to use Melodyne Assistant or at least ignore it so the demo doesn't crash.

A quick follow up:
After I removed the Platinum Demo, my Plug in Manager  had no VST Configuration. The "Options", " Plug in Properties" and "Scan VST Plug-ins" box were grayed out. A call to support revealed that "VstScan" in Program Files/Cakewalk/Shared Utilities was deleted somehow in the uninstall process.  The solution was to download the X3 install files and reload. Since this was going to take from 2-20 hours, I decided to to a system restore which put the VstScan program back. Not a happy experience  trying the demo.