FastBikerBoy


I'm still trying to get my head round the fact that someone would prefer to be charged an extra $600 at upgrade time (or whatever pie in the sky figure one of the naysayers came up with was) for something that they may not want rather than buy the modules they do (or don't as the case may be).

I don't like the optional PC modules so please make them compulsory. Eh???

Flabbergasted me.

Jind

FastBikerBoy


I'm still trying to get my head round the fact that someone would prefer to be charged an extra $600 at upgrade time (or whatever pie in the sky figure one of the naysayers came up with was) for something that they may not want rather than buy the modules they do (or don't as the case may be).

I don't like the optional PC modules so please make them compulsory. Eh???

Flabbergasted me.

I'll admit I was also a bit surprised that when Cakewalk finally went the route of a la cart offerings, which if I recall correctly quite a few people asked for in the ability to purchase just the core product and leave synths, effects, ... as alternative purchases, seem to be some of the very people that are now most adverse to this "new" direction and some of the features that have been introduced with X1.  There's a saying about being careful what you ask for because you just might get it.


Just a personal observation, no more no less.

Bub

FastBikerBoy

Bub

FastBikerBoy

Am I following correctly here?

The users complaining about the sale of individual PC modules would rather they were all included (compulsory) at update time and then pay one large fee then?

I didn't get that at all out of anything posted so far in this thread.

Did I miss something or did something get removed?

From creynolds..........

That way we can pay once and be done for a year. This drip, drip witholding thing is frankly a bit distasteful. Has anyone totalled up the cost of all this new prochannel modules rubbish? Nasty direction dont like it at all.

Frankly I get nothing but compulsory purchase from that, I don't know what else it could mean.

Sure, I can see how you could get that out of his comment.

Sonar as far as I can tell no longer includes new VST's or Synths. Yes, a new Z3TA was released, but they changed how they sell and market Sonar, so if you want that now, you have to go even one step higher than Producer. There's no longer an all inclusive version like their used to be, and some people liked that. Actually, that's the only reason I used the Producer edition.

It's been a long time since Cakewalk put out a new VST or Synth. Now that Pro Channel is here, and you have to buy every module, on top of Expanded, and on top of Producer, it's not looking good from the standpoint of someone who wants a single solution like Sonar Producer has always been.

What your seeing now is, they are charging the same for Producer, the older plugs are slowly dropping off because they either don't run on newer systems, they are not going to update them to 64bit, or they just don't work right and have been forgotten, and now you have to pay more on top of the initial cost for new VST's and Synth's.

At this point, if you even wanted to stay loyal to Cakewalk, you might as well buy the lowest choice of the Sonar products, save a bundle, and go get some high quality plugin's from 3rd party vendors. You'll
pay about the same as going with Sonar Production Suite doing it that way, get better support for your add-on's, and full versions of your VST's.

pwal


the one where he chucks his posts out (of) the forum?

Bristol_Jonesey


I've seen better 

Producer walks into the studio and the bass player is beating up the drummer. What's going on here? the producer asks. Bassist: this jerk detuned one of my strings...and he won't tell me which one!

stevec

Producer walks into the studio and the bass player is beating up the drummer. What's going on here? the producer asks. Bassist: this jerk detuned one of my strings...and he won't tell me which one!

 
Thanks, Bit.   Made my day.   And also for the three bassists that I've just sent this to.