Lanceindastudio
You will all be humbly grateful and bow before Cakewalk and their colleagues eventually, in celebration that they forced you to see the light, the true light, and use only X3 for your Nomad plugins, and eventually for everything, and realize that there is no other way and your music shall shine like diamonds and you will ascend into rainbow light bodies and travel the many dimensions with SONAR X3 in hand!
 
Muahahahahahahaaaa!!!

Huh...   And I thought that multi-dimensionality was coming with X4.   Shows you what I know.
 

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
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Just so there is zero confusion, the Nomad Factory Blue Tubes FX are locked to SONAR X3 Studio and Producer. This was the arrangement with Nomad but not to diminish that when you use SONAR X3 (which we are selling), you get the FULL version. The deal with Addictive Drums was different which is really a bonus for those using multiple DAWs.

no problem with that - that's part of marketing new plugs ...
 
BUT, what I did not understand was when I opened X2a to finish a project, I tried to employ the tape emu which also shows in the X2 pro channel, yet that is locked to X3 as well ... I wish it would just be locked to the Sonar X series - bummer
 
Made me go looking for a serious tape plug to be used outside X3 and ended up with J37; doubt i'll ever need the sonar tape sim again.

Maybe it's just me, but if someone wanted to use another product in addition to mine, I would rather have them using my product within that other product instead of getting accustomed to alternatives.  It's not like someone like me is going to say "since I can't use the blue tube plugins, I simply won't use my video editor at all".  For detailed critical sound work, I am going to export all my audio and work in Sonar anyway. For quick edits where I just need to add a compressor or a little eq, I am going to use the effects on my video editing program or third party ones that work.   Once again, I'm not upset by this.  I always see third party plugins as bonus and not the primary reason I use Sonar.  I just wished they would take another look at such policies since to me it would benefit the plugin maker more to be open.  Being locked in makes one less likely to upgrade the product because you are less likely to develop workflow dependency. Just my two cents.

if they will be locked in, I'd prefer they were pro channelled up

not a bad idea considering they already have a vintage look

That would be pretty cool, especially for plugin types that aren't yet represented in PC form.  Though I'd imagine it would fall completely on Nomad Factory to do the work...   perhaps with a little incentive from CW.   

stevec
 
  perhaps with a little incentive from CW.   

Well I think the incentive is US! The CW customer base! Profit potential.
 
It has got to be a boon for a plug in company to get a deal with Sonar. You get to have so many new users see and USE your product. Even if just a portion of the users buy anything from them is good news!

For me, and this is just the motivation for me making a purchase of an upgrade.
 
I upgrade SONAR precisely for the plugins.  That is, there might not be enough feature additions (or better yet), feature updates that interests me and the plugins are the tipping point in my purchase.  I'll be honest with everyone, there hasn't be a lot to get me excited about SONAR since the X series roll out.  And I really want to be excited about the product like I once was.

I do the upgrade path hoping that as long as the lights are on at Cakewalk, maybe someday the little things that I would like to see happen will appear.  Maybe I am using another product until that day but if I can get some plugins that will work in my other hosts, the purchase of the SONAR upgrade is still a positive in my mind.

Please list all the DAWs that come with plugins that work in other hosts?