Kamikaze
Anther Lifetime here, that is happy with what I received in the period lifetime upgrades ran.
 
Key features were, Midi Transform tool and ARA integration with the extract tempo map, these have been fantastic, and the Adaptive limiter and ripple editing are great too. I can't recall if the  Linear Phase EQ and Multiband were prier to LUs. The a stack of fixes and little tweaks.

Agreed.  I feel that I got tremendous value for the 'Lifetime Updates' deal.  I got nearly three years of Sonar updates for that one-time payment.
 
You see, I was still hanging onto Sonar X3 Producer from 2014 when the lifetime deal to Platinum was offered.  Had never bought into the 'membership' thing.  So I was a bit behind on updates...
 
So in my first update since 2014, I received every Platinum feature update and bug fix since January 2015, then updates for another year.  The number of new features was mind blowing to get them all at once!
 
Yup!  I think I got my money's worth! 

Great news, and a bright future for my favorite piece of software.  Sonar is dead!  Long live TDFKAS!

HARDDRlVER

abacab
Lifetime updates were cancelled when Cakewalk was shut down by Gibson.  Those license agreements are with a dead company.
 
Any beef you have about updates needs to be taken up with Gibson.  Get in line with their creditors as they pick the bones ... 
 
The new owners of the former Cakewalk code owe nothing to former license holders.  They did not buy the company, or have any intent to continue conducting business as Cakewalk.  That is just the way things work when a company stops doing business.
 
Anything that BandLab offers to former customers for free is strictly as goodwill to retain customers, and is at their complete discretion and free will.

So you prefer that Bandlab gives you what you paid for, while those who paid for the extra mile be left out.
IMO a company that buys up another also bought up that company's promises.
L.U. is simply a different version than the several others.
Suppose Bandlab were to dig into any of the other versions and denied various inclusions of those versions? Would you have something to say, then? Pick any one 'benefit' that was added with your particular version, and have that denied to you now...
If they offer everyone EXCEPT L.U. purchasers exactly what they paid for then they'd single out one particular group.
What a way to start a new venture with a bad taste in so many mouths.
Those who grabbed the biggest prize will actually be THE ONLY ONES in this deal to be left with less than what they paid for.
It was mentioned that Bandlab could not survive if they were to honor the L.U.
Do you really think they'd leverage themselves so close to the bone when picking up Cakewalk that holding back L.U. was the ONLY way Bandlab would survive the purchase of Cakewalk?
The person who mentioned this, are you privy to this evidence?

'Make everyone happy...except those who shelled out the most...or rather, those who took the biggest risk.'

I do not believe abacab said anything like what you imply.

If you wish to discuss the Lifetime Updates, you could start your own thread in an appropriate forum. It seems to me this thread is supposed to be about what BandLab can tell us about the future of the product formerly known as SONAR, since we now know that will not be the name BandLab gives their version of the product.

I think I'm done with this thread. I'll just watch for when Meng, Noel, or Ben post something new. Until then, the signal to noise ratio here is below production standards.

Is it just me or is anyone else pronouncing is tiddy-fakas in their head?

Buenisimo , que no se pierda la tradición del Cakewalk Sonar! muchos exitos y esperando muchas actualizaciones, fusion de versiones y free guitar VST
 
STEAM-SONAR VERSION
METAL GUITAR PLAYER

HARDDRlVER
So you prefer that Bandlab gives you what you paid for, while those who paid for the extra mile be left out.
IMO a company that buys up another also bought up that company's promises.
L.U. is simply a different version than the several others.
Suppose Bandlab were to dig into any of the other versions and denied various inclusions of those versions? Would you have something to say, then? Pick any one 'benefit' that was added with your particular version, and have that denied to you now...
If they offer everyone EXCEPT L.U. purchasers exactly what they paid for then they'd single out one particular group.
What a way to start a new venture with a bad taste in so many mouths.
Those who grabbed the biggest prize will actually be THE ONLY ONES in this deal to be left with less than what they paid for.
It was mentioned that Bandlab could not survive if they were to honor the L.U.
Do you really think they'd leverage themselves so close to the bone when picking up Cakewalk that holding back L.U. was the ONLY way Bandlab would survive the purchase of Cakewalk?
The person who mentioned this, are you privy to this evidence?

'Make everyone happy...except those who shelled out the most...or rather, those who took the biggest risk.'

For the last freaking time. What EXACTLY did you think was meant by "lifetime updates"? Free updates for the remainder of your life? Well, be sure to send us all a postcard from the land of Skittle-pooping unicorns!
 
When you bought into the "lifetime" offer, did you actually bother to read the terms and conditions? I'm guessing not. I didn't read them either, but then again I just assumed - quite rationally - that "lifetime" would mean "as long as the company is in existence." And I'm willing to bet hard cash that this is what the TOC quite clearly laid out. Buying into any such offer is clearly a risk to some degree. Ooo, will the company go bust or get closed down? Well, we all accepted that risk, and the "worst case scenario" came to pass. Hard luck for us! Whether or not BandLab honors Lifetime Updates is totally up to them. 
 

IMO a company that buys up another also bought up that company's promises.

 
There's those Skittle-pooping unicorns again! "IMO" does not and never will be accepted as an argument in a court of law, and in actual fact you're just plain wrong. 

HARDDRlVER

IMO a company that buys up another also bought up that company's promises.

OK please pay attention, just one more time.  Nobody bought 'Cakewalk'.  Please read post #1 in this thread.

sharke
pissa....seriously funny ****......im mjust sitting back laughing my tits off reading some of the comments in this forum........sharke----"For the last freaking time. What EXACTLY did you think was meant by "lifetime updates"? Free updates for the remainder of your life? Well, be sure to send us all a postcard from the land of Skittle-pooping unicorns!"....ahh ****......yeah meng, please keep the humanity of this forum in the moving forward thing!!!......debate and opinion is such an awsome part of this forum.......no other music software on this planet has a forum like this.....its ****ing awsome!!!!!!!
 

Seriously people, how awsome is this forum......here i am in brisbane australia talkin' to people from all over the world........meng, your a bloody legend!!!.....You have saved not just a great music software, but also an awssome forum, its like a club, a group, the sense of commun ity is huge....i think everyone shares a mutual love for this forum.........uno, like facebook support is a pure example of humanless help.........you ask a question, and you get some asked previously answers....but...there is nothing like an open disciussion about topics....thats is what its about meng!!!...please keep this aspect 

Great news! Sonar lives!