Upgrading to Sonar X3: a rock / me / hard place

Hi everyone!
 
I wanted to probe the collective advice from the support forums regarding purchasing Sonar X3 Producer, and the particular licensing situation I find myself in... Perhaps my licensing path through the Cakewalk family of products is fairly uncommon, but I find that the only compelling variant of Sonar X3 is Producer (based on what I already own), yet I don't seem to qualify for the more substantial discounts that a previous Producer licensee would have, even though I have a great many of the components separately licensed already.

For example, I already own these items:

• Project 5 full and Music Creator 6 Touch
• Session Drummer 2, Sound Center, etc. bundled VSTs and even older DXIs
• Z3TA+ 2 (full)
• Dimension LE and Dimension Pro
• Rapture LE and Rapture Pro
• AAS Strum Acoustic Session

I should mention that I am a user of Project 5, one of the discontinued products. Additionally, I am a Music Creator 6 Touch user, so I'm already enjoying the Skylight interface, and I have most of the instruments already offered by Sonar 3. Given this situation, I think that Producer is really the only game for me-- otherwise, I'd be investing money to get "lesser" versions of the synths and stuff.
 
I get that Sonar X3 is good; I'm pretty happy overall with the product line, and I like the stuff I have. I mainly want to get back into the "general stream" of product innovation. So much marketing effort crosses my desk, I feel out of step. Additionally, Cakewalk have long offered capable ancillary products in their suites (so there's a lot of VSTs there), and I've built out a lot with libraries and such.  Lastly, even though they're not Cakewalk products, I already own Melodyne full, so the new ARA integration has piqued my interest; I'm sure the iZotope items I've licensed through the store also work well in this environment.

Anyway, I'd like to ask you if you're in a similar situation, perhaps what you think of my lot, and whether you think I should leap or stay put? Given what I own, would X3 Producer be wildly different than Creator 6 Touch? How so? Am I crazy to think that I have a large part of the overall value already licensed? Feel free to call me out.

Thanks for your time, and your patience getting through this post!

You don't mention your location, so I'm not 100% sure what your upgrade prices are, but as far as I know, if you bought X3 base version and then later decided you wanted producer after all the combined cost of buying both seperately would be the same as if you just bought producer now, so you won't lose out in that scenario. If you already own melodyne then you will still get the ARA integration with X3 basic version, so you could always buy the base one now and wait a few months for the usual big price discounts to kick in later in the year as the new version looms (usually june/july) which will save you a fair bit and also put you in the best price upgrade path when the inevitable X4 appears.
 
I don't know much about MC6 to be able to compare, but the X3 demo is available now, so the best thing would be to download that and see for yourself.