Hi . I am a little bit confuse regarding the upgrade price. As I understand I should pay $199 upgrade fee to jump from x1 to x3 but when I logan to my account at top of the page under shopping card and change region, it says 1 products $149. I am just wondering how much I should pay to get the upgrade from x1 to x3.
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Reza

I had X1 Producer Expanded and upgraded to X3 Producer for $149. So $149 is the correct price for the upgrade. You'll love it!

Leadfoot
I had X1 Producer Expanded and upgraded to X3 Producer for $149. So $149 is the correct price for the upgrade. You'll love it!

Thanks for replaying
I do have the x1 producer that came with my vs700 and didn't add anything to make it expanded. is the x1 producer  same as expanded? how can I know it is expanded? and if I buy the upgrade for $149 and doesn't work on my version, it means It would be useless and I waste my money?

I am quite confused.
 
Here are the upgrade prices, which I JUST NOW copied to paste in here:
 
SONAR X3 Producer Download: Site Price

Upgrade from SONAR X2 Producer $149.00
Upgrade from any SONAR Producer $199.00
Upgrade from any SONAR Studio $299.00
Upgrade from any other SONAR $399.00
Upgrade for any registered customer $449.00
 
It looks to me like they want $199 to upgrade from X1, or any other prior Sonar Producer version, not $149.
 
I am not sure if you select the upgrade from X2 that it will allow you to install, since you are coming from X1.  I do not have any awareness of what checks and balances are in place, if any, where it would either allow or deny an upgrade from X1 using an upgrade that is explicitly supposed to be coming from X2.
 
Bob Bone
 

Seems to me that the original price quoted is the Studio upgrade not Producer.

robert_e_bone
I am quite confused.
 
Here are the upgrade prices, which I JUST NOW copied to paste in here:
 
SONAR X3 Producer Download: Site Price

Upgrade from SONAR X2 Producer $149.00
Upgrade from any SONAR Producer $199.00
Upgrade from any SONAR Studio $299.00
Upgrade from any other SONAR $399.00
Upgrade for any registered customer $449.00
 
It looks to me like they want $199 to upgrade from X1, or any other prior Sonar Producer version, not $149.
 
I am not sure if you select the upgrade from X2 that it will allow you to install, since you are coming from X1.  I do not have any awareness of what checks and balances are in place, if any, where it would either allow or deny an upgrade from X1 using an upgrade that is explicitly supposed to be coming from X2.
 
Bob Bone
 

Make sense but as you see in the first reply leadfood already bought it for $149 and installed it on x1 expanded and if his works so problem solved but I don't know how can I check my version if it is expanded or not.

It's been a while since I upgraded to X1 expanded, but I think there was an addition of pro channel modules that wasn't in the non expanded version.

If you want to see which exact Sonar version and build you are running, launch Sonar, then click on Help>About Sonar, and a version Window will open with that information displayed.
 
And here are links to the X1a, X1b, X1c, and X1d updates, with each page listing things addressed in that update:
 
X1a: http://cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013216
 
X1b: http://cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013233
 
X1c: http://cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013250
 
X1d: http://cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013277
 
Bob Bone
 
 

When I upgraded from X1 to X3, the price was $199.
And from what I remember, the difference between Producer and Expanded was, as rebel007 said above, extra ProChannel stuff. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head and none of the comparison charts say anything about it (I was looking at them recently for an unrelated reason and Expanded isn't mentioned).

I continued to look for info on the 'expanded' upgrade, and found this little blurb from some web review of it:
 
"SONAR X1's optional Expanded pack ($49), new for 2012, is a mixed bag. You get a new Softube Saturation Knob for any track, plus access to optional expander and compressor modules (which, unfortunately, also cost extra). You also get modularity—meaning you can add or subtract modules on each channel, plus in-place scrolling, which lets you scroll the strip vertically while leaving the console in place. "
 

Bob Bone