a 30 day trial period for pluggins would benefit all

It seems to me that Cakewalk could sell us more FX, soft synths, etc if they allowed us to try these out for 30 days and if we liked the product we would buy it. I was thinking today that I bet many are on the fence, many times wondering if a product is as good as it appears. Since many of us have been burned before buying products that really weren't what we had expected.
 
If Cakewalk was worried about pirated plugins by doing this, it seems they could protect themselves by not having us actually install the product on our HDs, but instead have it be accessed from the Cakewalk website HD. Maybe this isn't even necessary since we have the Command Center, maybe that would be protection enough for Cakewalk.
 
I think this would be a win-win for the users and Cakewalk. I would likely buy more if I could be sure I liked it. I hope something like this is already in the works, since many of us may be buying the lifetime subscription and will have some extra cash ready to buy some plugins in the future.

John Joseph [Cakewalk]
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Z3TA/Web-Trial
Maybe I'm misunderstanding that, but I think we do offer 30 day demo mode trials... we prevent saving presets though. 

Thank you, John. I thought maybe some products had the demo mode trial, but is that true with all products, plugins, etc.? If so I need to try some out.
 

scook
The availability of trial versions of CW products is inconsistent. As mentioned Z3ta+2 has one, so does the SONAR series, Rapture Pro and CA-2A. There are no demos for the other PC modules. CW appears to be tinkering with their product pages right now so there may be more parts of Platinum available for sale soon.

Thanks for the info. That was what I thought was going on, some inconsistency. I hope they address this better and provide demos. I feel it'd be a win-win for all.