I will say this...Cakewalk has definitely improved the web store process...I ordered mine tonite and the serials are already in my email...X1 it took almost 3 days...I'm sure it was a glitch...fortunately I had experienced it before so I was prepared to wait...this time it was rather painless (notwithstanding the actual money leaving my account and going into theirs)...
I do appreciate a company that moves towards excellence...honestly I have been with CW since it came on floppy disk, (really I still have them)...I have almost always gotten the upgrades save a version of Sonar 3 or something...
And one of the primary reasons I have stayed with the Bakers is they always seem to tailor the cost coefficient to be a little bit less than what they offer you in terms of product...
I've paid for full versions of DimPro and rapture in the past...and have bought libraries...
So to get them now might seem unfair but I do appreciate that they have included all that they have...
The Overloud stuff looks promising...the Guitar Rig thing was a deep dive into a shallow pool as far as I was concerned...never did convert me...
But this channel/console/breverb/re-tooling thing is frankly well worth the entrance price this time...
I have spent $$$$ on UAD, Waves, Izotope, Blue, and a host of other things and to have presets, and a console function built in to each strip will make my work flow unbearably simpler...
Now I can use the heavy cost items surgically which will make my entire process much less painful...since they products themselves have limitations by the host...
I am pleased to see the amount of priority and thought placed by the bakers into the product and the upgrade approach is really a deal maker.