Boy Eddie, I totally get it. I wasn't going to either but after watching some videos and hearing great things I bit.
The thing is, I installed MB3 and it said it was running in demo mode, and then I could expect periodic bursts of white noise. That was before I installed the license file.
So, it has a demo mode, but they are not releasing a demo...
PS: It has some quirks, but damn I like the workflow on this thing. It is sort of what I have always hoped the Console view in Sonar would become, but never seem to quite get there.