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This has to be the post of the day :)

I too have subscribed to the newsletter a number of times and have never received it. Weird.

Jari

Canopus
Ok, me too. No mail received, although newsletter status in my account equals subscribed.

Same here.

You've been re-activated but you didn't renew so you won't get the email in question here.

TerraSin
 like Melodyne and Addictive Drums have.

I owned them both before X3 so the new model is cool beans for me.
 
Drum Replace? I already owned Trigger2 and Drumagog5.
 
Vocal Sync? Ok, so if that happened after the lifetime license I would have had to have decided if I wanted it and could always pick it up on a sale or when I REALLY needed it.

P-Theory
Ha ha I feel like a guinea pig in a lab   I think I'm part of a big Cakewalk / Gibson experiment and good luck to them. 
 
They are first to market with another new billing model that is RADICALLY different than anything else in the market, something that looks too good to be true, and seeing how much of a stir that makes in the market place through word of mouth pre launch.
 
I used to run a software development house, that developed its own products, and I know that the "one time payment" offer is lunacy in terms of product lifecycle and recurring revenues. At the end of the day, developers and testers cost money on an ongoing basis, and new revenues need to be generated to keep them coding and developing the product. Product support needs to keep the ship running and supporting customers, giving them a great customer experience. The product needs to be developed to attract new customers, and all that takes time and money that needs to be funded....hence the need to new and recurring revenues.
 
UNLESS the product is legacy / end of life, then it makes perfect sense!  It is a great smash and grab to milk the last drops of new revenue out of the product whilst you launch your new product.  Eventually the new product overtakes the revenues of the legacy product which has effectively "funded" the launch of your new product.
 
Make of that what you will. 
 
My guess is a new product announcement is imminent! This may well have been through an acquisition or partnership. When or what that will be, then your guess is as good as mine.
 
Good luck to them, I think Cakewalk's customer experience is a great one.  I trust them, and look forward to hearing what's coming.  I'm sure its got rival product developers scratching their heads.  I just hope someone doesn't f*ck up a great company as so often happens when a corporate takes ownership of a smaller company. 
 
However only good things have happened since the Gibson takeover so I'm not worried.  It feels like a forward looking company union in ever way, or at least that's how it seems to the outside world. 
 
 
 
 

Well, IIRC correctly Noel said the bulk of SONAR users are on the Artist product. This lifetime offer is for Platinum users only.

e.Blue
I'm starting to feel like Mac support IS the only logical explanation for the drawn out announcement and the intro of lifetime upgrades. Think about it... Cakewalk is probably trying to lock in as many current SONAR users as possible. Once SONAR is available on OSX, it will be competing against Apple's Logic which only cost $200. This means that they will have to lower the price of SONAR significantly. Lowering the price that much would probably tick off many long-time SONAR users and essentially make the subscription-based model obsolete.
 
...JMHO
 

See post #435 (above). This lifetime offer is for Platinum users only. 

Here's what I am hoping the announcement or even better announcements are :
 
I hope cakewalk announces that they are starting a server hosted song site : Free to all purchased users of Sonar with a hit's chart and store to sell music. LOL, bit out there I guess, but it was a thought. 
 
Secondly, I hope that the price for TH3 Overloud Full will remain the same, the 149 upgrade going on right now for cakewalk Sonar users or cheaper because I have been demoing it and I like it very much, to me it sound like real amps/fx and functions much the same In my opinion, I plan on buying it but I am a couple weeks away, if it goes up in price I wont be able to afford it. Also plan on upgrading from Artist to Sonar Pro. 
 
MY NIGHTMARE :::::: I hope that the announcement doesn't say "Sonar is going to a CHEAP MONTHLY FEE for UPGRADES AND There will be no more ONE TIME BUY's"...... If that happens, I will change over to Reaper Software so fast it will be ridiculous. I have a 99 dollar upgrade price for Sonar Pro right now, I hope that one last. 
 
Thing with me, I don't like buying anything where I'm on a "SUBSCRIPTION" type of setup or ESPECIALLY AUTO BILLING, that is not something I like at all. 
 
Either way, it will be interesting to see what the announcement is. if it isn't DAW specific oriented then I don't see the purpose of making a big hoopla out of any type of announcement, or that is if it doesn't affect everyone then why do such a thing? 
 
We shall see what happens. I was using MC7 and upgraded to Sonar Artist and plan to upgrade to Sonar Pro if the price stays the same for upgrades in the very near future. I have purchased MC4, 5, 7 and skipped 6 because I was a bit too busy that time. 
 
We shall see what happens. Honestly, It would be nice if they announced something like they are coming out with an affordable USB 3/2 input device where there are upgrades like mixing boards and such things you can ADD ON later, much like the old Commodore 64 PC days where you could buy things as you could afford them. 
 
Oh well..... Just a few of my crazy thoughts, I anxiously await the announcements......
 
 

Hi, I used to get those e-mails but don't seem to get them anymore, could I get this sorted please. This all sounds fantastic.

I think the announcement will be an orange box for the shipped install media.
 
High contrast orange.
 
Yup I know I'm right since that's a pretty big deal.

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

Jari

Canopus
Ok, me too. No mail received, although newsletter status in my account equals subscribed.

Same here.

You've been re-activated but you didn't renew so you won't get the email in question here.

I assume that wasn't addressed to both of us?