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Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
Inquiring minds want to know. Will there be a price change or no lifetime updates offered until Cakewalk says so?
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/03 20:31:20
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/03 20:33:22
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☄ Helpfulby Vastman 2016/08/06 01:14:00
I suppose this question is directed to Cakewalk by way of their peer to peer forum, because inquiring minds here on this forum of course have no idea if the lifetime updates will continue past the August deadline. They have said there was this window, and in all fairness to those who went for it, it should be limited to that window . . . but never isn't always forever.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/03 22:48:18
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This question has become the pebble in my shoe that just wont go away no matter how many times I stop , take the shoe off , and toss the pebble . The Pebble just keeps reappearing in my shoe and it keeps causing me a foot blister  When Cakewalk announced that deal I had a feeling that I may be S .O. L. on being able to pull the trigger during the deals time window ... I have been saving up to meet an additional financial deadline that starts Sep 1st and comes to a close in Oct .... My new drivers license , 2 cars registrations , Smog inspections w possible repairs , 6 months up front on my Auto and Apt insurance , new yearly dog tags for the pooch , my license to pack , and a freaking partridge in a pear tree  the last one was for a dramatic relief This outlay totals out close to 12 to 13 hundred minimum above and outside of my normal monthly expenses... Sorry Cakewalk , as much as I would like to just buy my upgrade right now I can't , I have no wiggle room on the time line concerning the above mentioned responsibility's... I am being forced into having to chose to take a calculated risk and play the hand I have been dealt ... If you happen to decide you want to throw me a bone and give me the opportunity to spread out the 199 over a couple of months starting from anytime from right now I'm in ...if that is not possible I'm gonna be OK w no hard feelings since that's the hand I was dealt .... all the best , Kenny
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/03 22:59:41
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Well I bought the lifetime update package when it first came out, last week I got the Theme Editor. I selected the Mercury theme to lighten things up a little, then I went into my track info box and selected different colors for my tracks, then I went into the mixer page and found that my mixer tracks were all color coded making it a very pretty mixer to work with....I love all the different colors !!! Just another nice benefit of the lifetime update package.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/03 23:44:59
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☄ Helpfulby dcumpian 2016/08/04 08:31:47
Why is this even a question? It's linked on the main Cakewalk.com page, and says, " Act now! Lifetime Updates are available for purchase only until August 31st, 2016" Until it says otherwise, there's your answer. EDIT: On reflection, perhaps OP is actually asking whether this offer will ever be made again in the future, after the cut-off date. A reasonable question, perhaps. The answer is most probably "no-one, not even Cakewalk, can provide an answer at this time."
post edited by stickman393 - 2016/08/04 00:06:29
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 00:37:23
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It seems so clear to me (now!). If you want to receive free updates for as long as you have and use Sonar, then you have to buy the Lifetime Updates option on or before August 31st. After which you will continue to receive free updates for life. If you wait until September 1st you will NOT be able to buy the free Lifetime Updates option. Future incentives and offerings will remain in said future until such time as that future incentive or offering is revealed. Until then..... Stay tuned!
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kennywtelejazz
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 01:15:15
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soens
It seems so clear to me (now!).
If you want to receive free updates for as long as you have and use Sonar, then you have to buy the Lifetime Updates option on or before August 31st. After which you will continue to receive free updates for life.
If you wait until September 1st you will NOT be able to buy the free Lifetime Updates option.
Future incentives and offerings will remain in said future until such time as that future incentive or offering is revealed.
Until then..... Stay tuned!
Yes sir, That is pretty much clear to me too ....Yet, All the things in Life with value are negotiable Stay tuned Kenny
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 01:56:21
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Here's a picture of my colorized mixer... 
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 02:15:30
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Very nice!
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 02:53:23
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Thanks. This session was to compare a bunch of different mics on an acoustic guitar. I can toggle between tracks very easily to get a good A/B test between my mics. Doing this session told me a lot about my mics that I can use for selecting the right mics for the job....the ultimate winner was the Neumann TLM 102.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 07:27:02
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If it is that important to you. I think credit card offers exist with zero ARP for quite a few months along with free balance transfers and no annual fee.
I've never done this, but perhaps something to evaluate.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 08:13:55
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I certainly hope so, at least for a good long while. Otherwise, it really lowers Cakewalk Marketing's credibility when they say "limited time offer".
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 08:17:44
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If a deadline was given ... they should stick with it... thats the only reason I purchased the lifetime update.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 09:32:00
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dcumpian
I certainly hope so, at least for a good long while. Otherwise, it really lowers Cakewalk Marketing's credibility when they say "limited time offer".
Dan
Me too. I'll be annoyed if I outlayed money at this difficult time to find out the offer re appeared every 6 months. Companies like sample modelling don't ever shift their prices, stating it feels unfair to those who pay te full price just before a cut. I respect them for that, I just wish their prices were a little more managable. Yet XLN stuff I know I can wait for December and pick up some packs at half price. All this does is leaves me without stuff at time I fancy it, and XLN without the money they could have made. Again if they adjusted the balance a littkle they probably wouldn't need to go on sale.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 10:09:05
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kennywtelejazz
This question has become the pebble in my shoe that just wont go away no matter how many times I stop , take the shoe off , and toss the pebble . The Pebble just keeps reappearing in my shoe and it keeps causing me a foot blister
When Cakewalk announced that deal I had a feeling that I may be S .O. L. on being able to pull the trigger during the deals time window ...
I have been saving up to meet an additional financial deadline that starts Sep 1st and comes to a close in Oct ....
My new drivers license , 2 cars registrations , Smog inspections w possible repairs , 6 months up front on my Auto and Apt insurance , new yearly dog tags for the pooch , my license to pack , and a freaking partridge in a pear tree the last one was for a dramatic relief
This outlay totals out close to 12 to 13 hundred minimum above and outside of my normal monthly expenses...
Sorry Cakewalk , as much as I would like to just buy my upgrade right now I can't , I have no wiggle room on the time line concerning the above mentioned responsibility's...
I am being forced into having to chose to take a calculated risk and play the hand I have been dealt ...
If you happen to decide you want to throw me a bone and give me the opportunity to spread out the 199 over a couple of months starting from anytime from right now I'm in ...if that is not possible
I'm gonna be OK w no hard feelings since that's the hand I was dealt ....
all the best ,
Kenny
This pretty much sums up my position. The expenses aren't for the same things, but I still have additional expenses which unfortunately rank above my DAW in importance. I really wanted to upgrade from Professional as there are a good number of extra features I'd like, but real life is standing firmly in the way!
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 13:57:56
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/08/04 14:25:14
Cakewalk can do whatever they want to do , I'm OK with that  Kenny
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 14:06:26
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Cakewalk can do whatever they want to do , I'm OK with that Kenny Yump. Me two.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 14:16:12
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Yep, like the door to the arc!
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 14:33:36
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Yep, like the door to the arc!
So there are two of me inside the arc now? Hoboy, we're in for trouble now.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 14:45:01
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There are two of you??!! Geez, what's next...
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 14:55:27
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Not that I've read ...re read, etc... but when the lifetime updates where first offered, some where given a discount of I believe to be as low as $99.
In the future after August, lifetime updates will be available for $199 to anyone, which I'm sure I read back when.
So....some can save $100 now. That's the deal. I will jump in at the end of August as there was no need to pay when the offer first came out....in "effect" spreading the payments out. ...not that it really matters anyway.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 15:24:26
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mixmkr
Not that I've read ...re read, etc... but when the lifetime updates where first offered, some where given a discount of I believe to be as low as $99.
In the future after August, lifetime updates will be available for $199 to anyone, which I'm sure I read back when.
So....some can save $100 now. That's the deal. I will jump in at the end of August as there was no need to pay when the offer first came out....in "effect" spreading the payments out. ...not that it really matters anyway.
There was a lot of confusion surrounding the Lifetime Membership offer when it was first made ... Most folks can safely say this place was nut's for a long while .. Others here can explain it a lot better than I can , yet in a nutshell my summary of the fine print goes along these lines ... Cakewalk users that made the transition from X3 to SPlat early on and had payed up on another years membership after that (this year ) were offered a real Sweet deal ... They could get the Lifetime membership offer for the lower of the 2 prices you mentioned ...99 dollars ... In my case I had a time gap ....I had stayed with X3 for a better part of the time after SPlat was released ... In December of this year I had upgraded to Splat as owned for 12 months ... Since I waited on my upgrade to SPlat , that put me into the category of the higher priced Lifetime upgrade offer of $ 199 ... I had missed an upgrade cycle ... Kenny
post edited by kennywtelejazz - 2016/08/04 16:01:37
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 19:28:08
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mixmkr
Not that I've read ...re read, etc... but when the lifetime updates where first offered, some where given a discount of I believe to be as low as $99.
In the future after August, lifetime updates will be available for $199 to anyone, which I'm sure I read back when.
So....some can save $100 now. That's the deal. I will jump in at the end of August as there was no need to pay when the offer first came out....in "effect" spreading the payments out. ...not that it really matters anyway.
I believe you misunderstood. Yes, some get a "discount" related to previous purchases. However, any rate or even a future offering of the lifetime updates is pure speculation. I'd personally imagine it will come around at some point, but no indication has been given they have plans to offer it again with any certainty. I've read a lot of posts. August 31 is the deadline to guarantee lifetime updates with a one time fee.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 19:37:11
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This tread is relevant for those still sitting on the fence concerning the SPlat all in Lifetime upgrade .
At the very least since the clock is ticking , it may serve as a wake up reminder .
Kenny
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 20:07:26
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kennywtelejazz
This question has become the pebble in my shoe that just wont go away no matter how many times I stop , take the shoe off , and toss the pebble . The Pebble just keeps reappearing in my shoe and it keeps causing me a foot blister
When Cakewalk announced that deal I had a feeling that I may be S .O. L. on being able to pull the trigger during the deals time window ...
I have been saving up to meet an additional financial deadline that starts Sep 1st and comes to a close in Oct ....
My new drivers license , 2 cars registrations , Smog inspections w possible repairs , 6 months up front on my Auto and Apt insurance , new yearly dog tags for the pooch , my license to pack , and a freaking partridge in a pear tree the last one was for a dramatic relief
This outlay totals out close to 12 to 13 hundred minimum above and outside of my normal monthly expenses...
Sorry Cakewalk , as much as I would like to just buy my upgrade right now I can't , I have no wiggle room on the time line concerning the above mentioned responsibility's...
I am being forced into having to chose to take a calculated risk and play the hand I have been dealt ...
If you happen to decide you want to throw me a bone and give me the opportunity to spread out the 199 over a couple of months starting from anytime from right now I'm in ...if that is not possible
I'm gonna be OK w no hard feelings since that's the hand I was dealt ....
all the best ,
Kenny
I can relate. $1100+ for emission work. At the same time it may be a blessing to learn to be content and go for having no debt. Sonar is not my main DAW but if possible I would fork over $199.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 20:08:57
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Why is this even a question?
It's linked on the main Cakewalk.com page, and says, "Act now! Lifetime Updates are available for purchase only until August 31st, 2016"
Until it says otherwise, there's your answer.
EDIT: On reflection, perhaps OP is actually asking whether this offer will ever be made again in the future, after the cut-off date. A reasonable question, perhaps. The answer is most probably "no-one, not even Cakewalk, can provide an answer at this time."
You figured it out.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 20:12:29
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dcumpian
I certainly hope so, at least for a good long while. Otherwise, it really lowers Cakewalk Marketing's credibility when they say "limited time offer".
Dan
Right since when does a consumer care about market credibility if it benefits the consumer.
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Re: Will the door be closed on Lifetime updates after August?
2016/08/04 20:14:54
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dcumpian
I certainly hope so, at least for a good long while. Otherwise, it really lowers Cakewalk Marketing's credibility when they say "limited time offer".
Dan
Me too. I'll be annoyed if I outlayed money at this difficult time to find out the offer re appeared every 6 months.
Companies like sample modelling don't ever shift their prices, stating it feels unfair to those who pay te full price just before a cut. I respect them for that, I just wish their prices were a little more managable. Yet XLN stuff I know I can wait for December and pick up some packs at half price. All this does is leaves me without stuff at time I fancy it, and XLN without the money they could have made. Again if they adjusted the balance a littkle they probably wouldn't need to go on sale.
Sounds like a response based on selfishness. Someone will get the same thing. How does that effect you? This makes no sense unless it's all about me.
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