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chuckebaby
ya 30 days total seems like a long time to trial software.
I could record a whole album in 30 days and I think that's unfair to paying customers to have a trial that lasts almost as long as it takes to record a few full length sessions.
I think the 30 day thing is to just give you a taste of the daw, not let you use it to make money.
30 full days seems like you could accomplish just that.
Doesn't this mean that only those who can spend 30 days in a row on music can record a whole album and make money? How unfair...
Anyway, if I managed to record a whole album within a month using a new daw, I'd want to keep using such a great program, so I'd probably buy it.
I didn't quote you in my first post but I will here.
its a trial.
its meant to give you a taste of the DAW's features.
not give you a chance to create epic compilations.
it appears this is what happens when you give a trial out, some people just cant take a trial for face value and they seem to think they are entitled to more.
you download a trial for a reason, to try it.
downloading a trial and then only using it for a few days. that's not cakewalks fault.
you downloaded it for a reason correct ? to try it ?
2 or 3 few hour sessions should be enough to give any user a good idea of its features.
and compatibility. no ?
a personal logging system ? for each use ?
come on man,
Chuck, it looks like I failed to make my point. I was talking about fairness. I have no intention to use a trial version to complete an album or even one project. The best option, if technically feasible, would be to implement what Soens is suggesting, but NOT 30 days. I'd say 5-10 days in total to existing users and 15-20 days in total to potential users. This way, no one would be able to complete a serious album within the trial period, and I think the approach is fair (at least compared to the current approach), and novel, too.
Also, how long you need to try the demo depends on the level of your skill and experience and how deep the daw is. You may only need a day or two to judge whether the daw is for you, but in may case I'd probably need 15-20 full days if I was seriously considering using it as my main daw. I'd want to read the manual, learn how to record audio and MIDI, check how various editing tools work, test if my MIDI keyboard controller can control parameters successfully, etc. etc. In fact, I demoed the 30-day trial of DP8 last year, but, in addition to my full-time job, I had a very bad cold that started a week or so after I installed the demo, so I could only use it for less than 10 full days in total. Maybe if I'd had full 20 days, I would've loved DP and bought it (......NO, I'm sure I wouldn't have. It was very unintuitive IMO). If I were to try Cubase or Samplitude, I'd want 15-20 days (and Sonar is in the same league). If it's Mixcraft or the like, probably 1 week would be enough.