djwolf
Instead of getting a launch menu offering the saves I've made to my current project I'm now getting an internet redirect to download a new update for my "Cakewalk Sonar Platinum" software from Bandlab. I understand that Bandlab is the new owner of the software but I have ignored this download for some time so let me explain the source of my resistance and perhaps someone could ease my concerns.
"A free Streamlined version"... I paid for mine. Nothing is free. What begins as free ALWAYS ends up costing you and any assertion on my part that I have spent thousands on Kontakt, instruments, and processors to make this system work will be "My Problem" when Bandlab demands a return for their investment. The word, "streamlined," used to be a good one but it has lost its innocence. It used to mean allowing you easier and better access to what you wanted but now its code for removing options and choice to allow the developers to give us what they want to give us regardless of what we want. I really fear that the new update will remove things I use and need rather than give me extra stuff.
I do not own a mobile phone... Let me rephrase that. I WILL NOT OWN A MOBILE PHONE, a tablet, or any other push technology. I don't like the way they have ushered in yet another addiction to "the Age of the Rude, the Shallow and the Stupid" and turned us into slaves. I like being unavailable and away at my discretion. I don't use "the Cloud" for anything and I have no need to "Collaborate" with anyone. Now, I realize that many musicians that use this DAW will want many of these features and that is fine but will I still be able to use it with Kontact 5, Spitfire audio files and others, away from the internet to create MY music as I have done?
I've been burned before. I was an owner of Logic Platinum Audio for PC and I knew this software completely. All my music was in the Logic Audio Format and then it was bought out by Apple. My upgrade agreement was pronounced null and void unless I spent thousands on a high-end Mac and went back to "computer school" to learn a new computer environment.
So while Bandlab promotes its new features that I have no need for, sound more like buzz words for the social engineering of conformity and are saying I wasted my money on something that's now free, I want to know what I will lose by downloading this "not quite up to scratch to charge money for" upgrade.
I'm with you on your thinking, but as long as you live in the western world and don't plan on dying any time soon ... you will own a mobile telephone. It's becoming mandatory to function in society and for the tax man to get his cut ... it's just a question of time. And I don't see no resistance movement taking shape.
With on line activation you have already crossed the bridge of self-sufficiency, and with the company issuing your license in effect out of business ... all is lost. You can write off your monetary expenditures. The main argument against, and worst case scenario for on-line activation has happened. Your left with nothing, except your existing install.
Do you get it ?
It's only due to the grace of the company that bought the
IP from Cakewalk inc., that this forum still is active.
Check out your options in the stickies on top of this page. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.