Time to start talking about the new year subscription options/changes?

As a Sonar owner for may years I opted for the Platinum monthly offer starting in January 2015, with the monthly charge of $14.99.
 
As the first year of the subscription plan/option is closing, what will be the best offer for us current owners?
What will the monthly payment be in 2016? What savings could we see if we pay for the annual cost in one lump payment?
 
Bakers?
 
 

Bristol_Jonesey
As of today, nobody knows.....

Somebody knows but is most likely not allowed to reveal it.
 
(BTW It Ain't Me, I ain't no fortunate son )
 

Well - it is what is - until it isn't anymore :-)

boblettnoe
As a Sonar owner for may years I opted for the Platinum monthly offer starting in January 2015, with the monthly charge of $14.99.
 
As the first year of the subscription plan/option is closing, what will be the best offer for us current owners?
What will the monthly payment be in 2016? What savings could we see if we pay for the annual cost in one lump payment?
 

 
If you make with 12 monthly payments you will own Platinum by January. With an annual one time payment you would have saved about 30 bucks so if you liked what you got in 2015 it seems a better deal to go annual. I imagine the rates would be somewhat similar for next year but as Andrew said its yet to be determined.
We'll definitely be doing as good or better next year now that we have some momentum :) 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]

boblettnoe
As a Sonar owner for may years I opted for the Platinum monthly offer starting in January 2015, with the monthly charge of $14.99.
 
As the first year of the subscription plan/option is closing, what will be the best offer for us current owners?
What will the monthly payment be in 2016? What savings could we see if we pay for the annual cost in one lump payment?
 

 
If you make with 12 monthly payments you will own Platinum by January. With an annual one time payment you would have saved about 30 bucks so if you liked what you got in 2015 it seems a better deal to go annual. I imagine the rates would be somewhat similar for next year but as Andrew said its yet to be determined.
We'll definitely be doing as good or better next year now that we have some momentum :) 

This is great news. I thought as much but to hear it said is pretty cool. I just hope the bakers don't burn themselves out. For CW 2015 has to be a very special year. I know it is for me. 

gswitz
Would it matter if I told you the baby needs a new pair of shoes?

That's funny...

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
We will have more information on that in the coming weeks.

 
This may just be my last year with CW, I've been with CW a LONG time (1989 - CW DOS Version 2) - but first time I've had to pre-pay for 100% UNKNOWN content & functionality. 
 
this time last year at least the upgrade from X3 to SPLAT had AD2 with AD2 pro pak, and few other add-ins not to mention an initial SPLAT program to gauge your moneys worth by - BEFORE paying.
 
 
 
 

My subscription was started in March. It is my understanding that they won't hit me up for renewal til then. In other words it's 12 consecutive months, not necessarily January to December. IMO of course and it's just as likely I'm wrong as right. Not sure why I posted now!

charlyg
My subscription was started in March. It is my understanding that they won't hit me up for renewal til then. In other words it's 12 consecutive months, not necessarily January to December. IMO of course and it's just as likely I'm wrong as right. Not sure why I posted now!

Seems to me to be a bit of a paradox. If you buy Sonar months after the original release and you get 12 months of updates. You must have still received all previous monthly updates in the first download months after the original release. So the longer you wait to upgrade the more updates you will receive.  Or Something ;)

Anderton

bluesplayer

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
We will have more information on that in the coming weeks.

 
This may just be my last year with CW, I've been with CW a LONG time (1989 - CW DOS Version 2) - but first time I've had to pre-pay for 100% UNKNOWN content & functionality.

 
Cakewalk has the same people, working at the same cadence, and they certainly haven't run out of ideas. So if you liked what happened in 2015, the odds are really high you'll like what happens in 2016. If you didn'tlike what happened in 2015, the odds are really high you won't like what happens in 2016. Same thing as deciding whether to renew a magazine you'd been receiving, or eat at a restaurant where you'd eaten before...your decision would depend on your previous experience.
 
In any event your existing software will still work 

still waiting for that:
 
"We will have more information on that in the coming weeks."

I think we need to give the bakers a little grace. They'll work it out. We still have our software. It's not going to expire if you paid the annual fee or 12 consecutive months. When they're ready, they'll release the next update with renewal information, and we can decide then.

Same here ,but I have paid £79 for new subscription a little early. There Is no information only a new Cleverbridge number.I just hope everything clicks in automatically when the old sub runs out.
 
All the best
john
 
Ps How are they going to sort out the people who wait three or four months before paying a years sub.
Will they get the previous updates for nothing????????
Or,will there be a big hole to fill .  ????
 
I JUST HOPE LOYAL CUSTOMERS GET THE BENEFITS!!!

Again been here longer than most currently on this forum (1989)- I just don't post - i just use the SW and make music.
 
I paid full, up front, whole year last 16 Jan 2015, for upgrade from Sonar X3 Pro to SPALT.  Great deal at $149!  But I got a year of updates with "free"  AD2, AD2 pro pak, and some other  add-ons PLUS SPALT as it existed last Jan.
 
Yes I know I "OWN" it (as much as you "own" any software) that's NOT THE issue.
 
But they (Andrew for sure) have alluded to something better than just "send us $199 (call it 200) up-front for my annual renewal"  (assuming, I want it) especially since this time around I'm paying BEFORE I get anything new.  
 
As I said YES I KNOW I still have and can use my existing SPALT in "perpetuity" (it seems) - just like I could with CWPA 9!   And as I said Cakewalk has NO OBLIGATION to supply ANYTHING, really, for that $199 "fee." I know they will but it's all UNKNOWN.
 
we are JUST starting the  batch of annual renewals so it's all new to all of us!
 
How would you respond to this ad from say Microsoft or Native Instruments or.... any other SW:  "send us $200 and we'll get back to you."
 
 
 

Just checked my account and I am being informed my next payment is due this month, on the usual date, for EXACTLY WHAT I AM PAYING NOW!!
What the hell is happening? Some subscribers are getting a discount on continuation, I am not.
 
Qty.Product nameDelivery1SONAR Platinum (Pay Monthly)Complete Music Production Software for Windows 7 & 8electronic
How to Download and Install SONAR Platinum: 
This product is most easily installed by using Cakewalk Command Center. To get the latest version please visit"http://www.cakewalk.com/command-center.
The price for this subscription is £39.90 per enabled user account. Your cost will be based on the maximum number of enabled user accounts during each billing cycle. The next payment is due on 22/01/2016.

Look, there have already been several threads addressing this issue that have been banished to the Cakewalk Store by the moderators so that no one would read them. Those threads, like this thread, have nothing to do with "problems around the Cakewalk Store" but rather with the pricing of Sonar renewals which are available to Cakewalk using the new membership model. The most germaine is probably http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3343815. This one apparently survives in the Sonar forum because Cakewalk employees have contributed more or less useless comments. Rather than re-type the stuff I have already contributed to this discussion I refer readers to: 
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3344315
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3345051
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3345347
 
Grow up people. Cakewalk is a good company and Sonar is a good product, but it is a business not a family, and you are not their friend you are a buyer of their product. They owe a legal duty to those who make money off their efforts to extract the highest price that you will pay. If you have to pay more to continue your membership than a new member would pay to start one, it is because they have determined that you will not waste the time and effort to learn how to use the software by abandoning it now, just because they have not given you a "loyalty discount" equal to the "introductory offer" they are willing to make to entice new users.