Sonar X2 in the UK (boxed copy - upgrade)

Jackie


Would it be a violation of forum rules to mention where I am purchasing my (upgrade) boxed copy of X2?
I’m not connected with the company (although I have bought from them before), I just thought that sharing the information might help out some other British buyers but I don’t want to risk being banned if it is viewed as advertising or something prohibited.
If someone official can confirm it’s ok, I’d be grateful.
Thanks!

strikinglyhandsome1


ETcetera

Fog


I think a few of us went for the Strings lib offer. I'd have liked the box, but well £25.. is a bit too much , say £12-18 would have changed my mind.

UK is pretty good download wise, well assuming you have a decent tarriff as well. They all want our custom currently , so won't be too quick to complain. unlike the old days when BT "anytime" didn't mean that 

synkrotron


That's a good price from Etcetera, and I would imagine that with P&P added it would still be cheaper than the download price.

synkrotron


oops... actually, I'm wrong with my previous statement. I think I paid £79 for my upgrade from X1 Producer Expanded to X2 Producer (I say think... I've just been into my store account and it has disappeared from my history).

But it must still be handy to have the media, which costs another £25 on top of the download.

Still, I've made my choice, and I'm happy with that :)

synkrotron


That's strange, because I clicked on the link above for the Etcetera site and it is priced as £85 to upgrade from X1 Producer to X2 Producer.

I couldn't check what the P&P was because you need to enter a valid serial number before you can add that item to your shopping cart and I gave up at that point...

S'only a couple of quid anyway.

Are you getting it then?

synkrotron


Doh! I missed that! Sorry. And at first I thought I'd missed something there, but I paid £79 for the X1 Producer Expanded to X2 Producer upgrade, whereas the X1 Producer to X2 Producer was £99. I'm glad I cleared that up in my little head.

As or X2, and I've said this a number of times over the last few days, I'm over the moon with it really. I had hardly touched X1 though, jumping from Sonar 6 Producer to X1 in the summer.

For me, the highlight is Automation Lanes and they are allowing me to explore that avenue more. I used to find drawing envelopes a bit of a pain previously, but dedicated lanes, and the new draw and edit methods are brilliant in my opinion. I like to create old fashioned synth stuff like Tangerine Dream for instance and being able to tweak all the various parameters in Absynth and Z3ta opens up new avenues for me. I know you've always been able to do this in real time, but I prefer to do this task after I have my main synth tracks down.

And that's just one thing. There are other enhancements too, like the way you can draw notes in the PRV now, that make the "composing" process a bit better for me, and the way I work.

Yes, I've had a few issues, but as a hobbyist I've not come across any real show stoppers yet.

At least with the boxed media you don't have any issues with corrupted download files ;-)