Juggernaught
I'm curious about the lifetime upgrade. Does the lifetime upgrade give the same options that the current 12 month option gives? The 12 month option gave those members things like vocal sync and help integration, but it also updated plugins and added new things like AAS analog synth.

We need some cliff notes in the opening post to avoid having to post the same stuff over and over again :(.
Cakewalk reps have explicitly said that there will be no difference in content between a lifetime membership and the regular monthly/yearly membership. There have been no promises however on to what that content would be like in the future.

This is a little weird! I had 2 options in my logged in store for Lifetime one at $149 and one at $99, the other day. Today I clicked on the link in an email from Joey Adams and now I only have the $149 one.
 
Anyone know what that's about? I bought SPLAT and renewed it, once.
Michael

Please let it be they have FINALLY ported a version to Mac OSX!!
 

pentimentosound
This is a little weird! I had 2 options in my logged in store for Lifetime one at $149 and one at $99, the other day. Today I clicked on the link in an email from Joey Adams and now I only have the $149 one.
 
Anyone know what that's about? I bought SPLAT and renewed it, once.
Michael

I just resent the email. Use the link in the email. There's no way you got a link that had a $149 price. You are probably using the current Membership one.

Rocsee70

Juggernaught
I'm curious about the lifetime upgrade. Does the lifetime upgrade give the same options that the current 12 month option gives? The 12 month option gave those members things like vocal sync and help integration, but it also updated plugins and added new things like AAS analog synth.

We need some cliff notes in the opening post to avoid having to post the same stuff over and over again :(.
Cakewalk reps have explicitly said that there will be no difference in content between a lifetime membership and the regular monthly/yearly membership. There have been no promises however on to what that content would be like in the future.

What he said. There's not going to be two flavors of SONAR. Only difference now is that Membership only runs for 12 months. Updates will be the same. In fact, people who bought lifetime updates for Platinum just got an update yesterday. So did Membership and monthly folks. It was the same.

I have been using Sonar in the studio every day for a long time. Today I realised that I have probably explored and adopted more new features in the past 18 months than I have in the past decade or two of using Sonar, or any daw for that matter. The rolling, all inclusive updates are solely responsible for that. Whilst I am happy to take up lifetime updates, I hope the new model, whatever it may be, still leads me down that path of discovering the extras too:)

tenfoot
I have been using Sonar in the studio every day for a long time. Today I realised that I have probably explored and adopted more new features in the past 18 months than I have in the past decade or two of using Sonar, or any daw for that matter. The rolling, all inclusive updates are solely responsible for that. Whilst I am happy to take up lifetime updates, I hope the new model, whatever it may be, still leads me down that path of discovering the extras too:)

That was actually part of the reasoning for the agile delivery. It can be overwhelming to learn a bunch of new features at once and sometimes you never get around to them. By doing the updates incrementally, we are allowing people to adopt and learn new features at a slower pace which I think ultimately is beneficial.

This better not turn out to be trivial.
 
Marketing........

AllanH
I cannot think of any other vendor that is engaged to the level CW and you are.

Harrison Mixbus forum is pretty close. In fact I would say that Ben has an almost open door policy followed by x42 (an Ardour Developer I believe).

Hoenerbr already mentioned online collaboration on page 2. Maybe it is some form of tightly integrated realtime collaboration. Imagine being able to invite other SONAR users to your session from within SONAR, and then the project gets synced between the two (SONAR uploads the full project, including all audio etc). The two will then play back in sync etc, and you can record on either/both.
 
Lots of technical challenges with that, including latency, both needing the same plugins, similar IO setups etc.
 
Maybe a more limited version, where one SONAR is the master, and you can add new audio and/or MIDI tracks on the slave that can be recorded to. The master would need to at least send pre-rendered versions of tracks to the slave to make sure the user on the slave can hear the full project (they need to be individual tracks to make sure mute/solo works correctly on both sides).
 
Kinda like Steinberg's VST Connect Pro, but built into SONAR.
 
Or something.