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skylightron
Will this $49 upgrade include the TH2 30 FREE Presets, FREE TH2 Bonus Content and the Bonus FX Chain Odyssey pack? If it's not already included, can Cakewalk throw these in and have them in our account?

I'm not sure, but for an on sale offer to be a genuine offer, the product must be exactly the same as what it was before the sale. If not, it is a different product and the percentage discount will misleading. A company should not advertise 50% off then offer a product with 50% of its features.
 
Send Cakewalk customer service a message.

Huh? I believe the offer he is referring to was content club offer earlier this year that has now expired. The current content club offer is the EDM Euphoria pack. 
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/products/sonar/x2-producer/content-club.aspx
 
Just for the record though, the TH2 presets mentioned would hardly constitute 50% of the product. Not even close. 
 
Perhaps before you rush to judge, you should understand what the current offer is which is 50% off X2 upgrades. That's the offer. If you buy Producer, you also get the Content Club bonus. It's not being advertised as anything else. 

I suspect Cakewalk has something up its sleeves. If not, they should. Avid just announced Pro Tools 11 HD and Presonus has an announcement scheduled for 4pm ET tomorrow afternoon. 
 
From Presonus: 
On Thursday, August 29 2013, at 3:00 p.m. CST, (4:00 p.m. EST | 1:00 p.m. PST | 20:00 GMT) head over to www.presonus.com/videos/presonuslive, where we’ll dagger the cloak, tip our hand, and reveal the other players in our triumvirate. But what is it? - See more at: http://www.presonus.com/c.../#sthash.W1X2lQ57.dpuf

CW typically releases mid-late Sept. & IIRC X1 was in December.

daveny5
I suspect Cakewalk has something up its sleeves. If not, they should. Avid just announced Pro Tools 11 HD and Presonus has an announcement scheduled for 4pm ET tomorrow afternoon. 
 
From Presonus: 
On Thursday, August 29 2013, at 3:00 p.m. CST, (4:00 p.m. EST | 1:00 p.m. PST | 20:00 GMT) head over to www.presonus.com/videos/presonuslive, where we’ll dagger the cloak, tip our hand, and reveal the other players in our triumvirate. But what is it? - See more at: http://www.presonus.com/c.../#sthash.W1X2lQ57.dpuf

IMHO, I think the marketing landscape has changed.  Case in point - IIRC, Apple is supposed to be announcing / showing their new lineup of iStuff on 9/9, a month before the products will be available.  They are expected to launch preemptive strikes, contrasting their products with the Andorid offerings, so that consumers hold off on making hasty purchases from other vendors.
 
With Q, L, P, and the other S having new offerings, I am surprised that that we are not seeing anything from our Bakers, even though we may not see anything for a month.  Granted, with vendors listed, no one was given a clue about what functionality might be included in the new releases, so there was some element of surprise, but surprise isn't what it used to be.
 
The announcement to port DP to Windows came long before it actually happened, but the announcement probably caused some folks familiar with the Mac version to take note.
 
Not everyone can afford to have mutliple ($199)$400-$500 DAW software.  And bringing back users who have departed would take some miracle features or stability.

Are there any trade shows that would drive this?  Many tech product announcement cycles are driven by one key trade show where vendors try to make the big splash.
 
I don't know if there is anything like that in the DAW world.  Just searching around the interwebs, I don't see any particular show that stands out.

I would like them to run a promotion where you can download everything that was offered to Content Club Members plus those extras from the very beginning for the regular Producer upgrade cost of $99 now that the Content Club has reached its promotional end. They can do this before a X3 promotion rolls out. The 50% off they're running now plus the bonus content seems fair and is a good promotion but the Content Club is about to expire unless they renew it for existing X2 users. I like their concept of the earlier you buy the more you get - it wasn't always like this for early adopters and hope they keep the Content Club going for future versions of Sonar.

daveny5
Presonus has an announcement scheduled for 4pm ET tomorrow afternoon. 
 
From Presonus: 
On Thursday, August 29 2013, at 3:00 p.m. CST, (4:00 p.m. EST | 1:00 p.m. PST | 20:00 GMT) head over to www.presonus.com/videos/presonuslive, where we’ll dagger the cloak, tip our hand, and reveal the other players in our triumvirate. But what is it? - See more at: http://www.presonus.com/c.../#sthash.W1X2lQ57.dpuf

 
Yep, 2.6 is out now, which I haven't downloaded and tested yet, but it includes many fixes and improvements.

Dream Station 1.0

Bajan Blue
 
Would X3 introduce NEW problems??
 

lol
   :-)

Hey man..love your avatar.  Haven't seen that in a long time.

Jlien X

daveny5
Presonus has an announcement scheduled for 4pm ET tomorrow afternoon. 
 
From Presonus: 
On Thursday, August 29 2013, at 3:00 p.m. CST, (4:00 p.m. EST | 1:00 p.m. PST | 20:00 GMT) head over to www.presonus.com/videos/presonuslive, where we’ll dagger the cloak, tip our hand, and reveal the other players in our triumvirate. But what is it? - See more at: http://www.presonus.com/c.../#sthash.W1X2lQ57.dpuf

 
Yep, 2.6 is out now, which I haven't downloaded and tested yet, but it includes many fixes and improvements.

Yeah, it looks like a nice update.   I haven't downloaded it yet either, but there are enough fixes/enhancements to make this one worthwhile for me - I currently have 2.5 installed since .51 and .52 didn't really have anything to offer for what I do.  
 
Now I just need a new(er) SONAR to go along with it.  
 

stevec

Jlien X

daveny5
Presonus has an announcement scheduled for 4pm ET tomorrow afternoon. 
 
From Presonus: 
On Thursday, August 29 2013, at 3:00 p.m. CST, (4:00 p.m. EST | 1:00 p.m. PST | 20:00 GMT) head over to www.presonus.com/videos/presonuslive, where we’ll dagger the cloak, tip our hand, and reveal the other players in our triumvirate. But what is it? - See more at: http://www.presonus.com/c.../#sthash.W1X2lQ57.dpuf

 
Yep, 2.6 is out now, which I haven't downloaded and tested yet, but it includes many fixes and improvements.

Yeah, it looks like a nice update.   I haven't downloaded it yet either, but there are enough fixes/enhancements to make this one worthwhile for me - I currently have 2.5 installed since .51 and .52 didn't really have anything to offer for what I do.  
 
Now I just need a new(er) SONAR to go along with it.  
 

Hi, I installed 2.6 and tested it but midi editing features are hardly improved and it looks like Studio One is going in the audio/live recording direction more and more. I think I'll stop making new songs in S1 for a while and when 3.0 comes out I'll decide if I should ditch the program or not. I hope X3 will add S1's super-easy, high-quality timestretching (it's now pretty much the only thing I desperately want Sonar to add).