Got an email from CW that I could upgrade to X3 Producer from X2 for $99. If they had done this back when it was first released I would be running X3 now. $149 is a little much to upgrade every year IMO. Now I'm debating whether to wait for X4. If I upgrade it will be $99. Then if I upgrade again when X4 arrives, supposedly for $149, that would be a total of $258. But if I wait for X4 I'll then be two versions back and It will cost me $199. Think I'll wait until X4 and save $59. What will it be 6 months before X4?
 
Or I could upgrade to X3 for $99, wait another year from now, and upgrade for $99 when CW's fire sale for X4 begins.

Looks like a pattern.
 
I skip upgrades of Finale because it's usually $99 for a yearly upgrade and $149 if you skip a year.
 
I wish I had waited till now to get X3 Producer (the fifty shades of grey edition).

Guitarpima
I wish I had waited till now to get X3 Producer (the fifty shades of grey edition).

I wonder how much duct tape Cakewalk went through in testing that release ;).

Well, X3 for $99 is a great deal, and it might be quite a long time until an X4 shows up - possibly October or much later.
 
X3d has been quite stable, and feature-rich, and several folks have already expressed joy with the X3e release we just got today.
 
Bob Bone
 

chasmcg
Got an email from CW that I could upgrade to X3 Producer from X2 for $99.

If Cakewalk's email/newsletter system worked, I might also have received this email...
 
As it stands, how would one who never receives anything from Cakewalk go about accessing this deal since it's not in the store ?
 
Just out of curiosity, as  I'll probably wait for the cheap upgrade right before X4 deal  (and since Cakewalk won't send me anything, I have to log in here every day until it happens).
 

Paul P

chasmcg
Got an email from CW that I could upgrade to X3 Producer from X2 for $99.

If Cakewalk's email/newsletter system worked, I might also have received this email...
 
As it stands, how would one who never receives anything from Cakewalk go about accessing this deal since it's not in the store ?
 
Just out of curiosity, as  I'll probably wait for the cheap upgrade right before X4 deal  (and since Cakewalk won't send me anything, I have to log in here every day until it happens).
 

This Newsletter was explained to me as invite only, so I'm pretty sure it didn't go to everyone intentionally. Seems like it was aimed to X2 Producer owners so if we can figure out why you're not getting the Newsletter we could hopefully help you in the future.
 
Willy Jones took the time to provide you a perfectly valid explanation for why Newsletters sometimes don't make it to people here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2975221
 
I can't help but notice your response since his post has been the following:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2975856
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2997826
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2995037
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3009736
 
Instead of continually taking cheap shots at Cakewalk, why not work with us so we can look into what might be happening? If you want to PM me all your email addresses that are failing I can forward it to the guys who manage this. The Newsletter service we use has extremely strict rules regarding whether or not we can send to certain addresses if something was flagged. This is the most likely explanation. Clearly something is off with your accounts that we need to correct, but we'll have to work together on it. I'm willing to try if you want to.

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]
Instead of continually taking cheap shots at Cakewalk, why not work with us so we can look into what might be happening?

Thanks for your reply.  My cheap shots are reminders that your email sign up doesn't work, and you've admitted it needs looking into.  Sure I could have you sign me up manually, but that doesn't fix the problem for everyone else.
 
I've read many posts of others who can't sign up for email or the newsletters.  If a single person tells me they've successfully signed up and received something from Cakewalk in the last month, I'll shut up.
 
BTW, I own X2 Producer so I'm interested in hearing about offers to upgrade.  I only need bug fixes though, so I'm waiting for the cheap offer.  If I received emails, no one would have to listen to me.
 

Paul P

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]
Instead of continually taking cheap shots at Cakewalk, why not work with us so we can look into what might be happening?

Thanks for your reply.  My cheap shots are reminders that your email sign up doesn't work, and you've admitted it needs looking into.  Sure I could have you sign me up manually, but that doesn't fix the problem for everyone else.
 
I've read many posts of others who can't sign up for email or the newsletters.  If a single person tells me they've successfully signed up and received something from Cakewalk in the last month, I'll shut up.
 
BTW, I own X2 Producer so I'm interested in hearing about offers to upgrade.  I only need bug fixes though, so I'm waiting for the cheap offer.  If I received emails, no one would have to listen to me.
 

It's definitely not perfect, but I find it odd that your reaction is based off the people who have problems and not the hundreds of thousands who don't. If that's your metric for determining it doesn't work then I'm not sure there is a single service out there that will meet perfection considering the last thing any company wants to do is get flagged as a spammer and then REALLY not be able to reach anyone. Anyhow, I know a number of people have had problems with it but it's definitely a vast minority. Saying it doesn't work just isn't an accurate statement.

I'm signed up to the Newsletter with countless personal accounts that I've used to test various web forms on the site I've created over the years. Nobody at Cakewalk knows these are my accounts and no trickery was done. I receive tons of Newsletters from Cakewalk. So if our dataset is just you and me, I'd argue it works and you'd argue it doesn't.

Anyhow, we can talk about it all day long but the only thing that will ever have direct results is to follow up with yourself and anyone else who runs into problems with the Newsletter. There's really no other way of dealing with the suppression list other then working it out together sometimes. I'm sorry it's frustrating. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of it.

I just successfully signed up for the newsletter, using an alternate email account.  There are no associated products, so no special ones, but it worked:
 

Cakewalk Newsletter

Thank you Robert! You have been signed up for the Cakewalk newletter

There is definitely some issue with newsletters and certain email address or IP's getting blocked. I have control over my own mail servers because I don't trust yahoo/gmail or whatever to look after and filter out my communications. It just might be the third party mailout is not the greatest service. I've done bulk mails in the past for marketing departments (10's of thousands of emails) and I always did it from my own server (precautions can be made so your IP does not get blacklisted).
 
I hope one day it will be resolved, I also think having pull notifications as well (website) is the way to go as the SMTP simply sucks. I am getting newsletters fine nowadays.