Eligibility for free upgrade to next version?

wouldn't the registration date determine eligibility (how would they know when I purchased it when it comes time to download the v9 upgrade?).

1) How would they know? *LOL* You've just admitted it in the forum!

2) The "v9 upgrade" probably won't be a "download". It will be the full version of the new release. "Updates" are downloads, "upgrades" are "new versions".

Free upgrade is one good deal as it's usually over £100 here.

Cakewalk always look after their hardcore new version updaters by charging early adopters more than anyone else, they then find the bugs, which Cakewalk irons out and then charge everyone else less.

ORIGINAL: chefmike8888

One thing I want to know is, how the hell do you buy a new version of something like Sonar and still don't have it installed 4 days later?
I rip it open immediately and install it ASAP. But then again, I have issues.

Mike

I immediately opened SPE8 and 4 days later it was finally installed.

Fascinating that the page indeed says "download" the next paid "update" as opposed to "upgrade."

Not sure what to make of this.
The current version is pretty big for a download, coming in @ what? ~9GB with the Dim Pro library.
And I'm assuming by "update" they actually meant "upgrade," and that it won't be one of those things like:
"We're releasing Sonar 8.5, for just $49."

Sounds strange, but Apple did exactly that with Logic Pro once-upon-a-time.

I'd hate to buy 8.3 and end up getting 8.5 for free.

Why doesn't it specifically say "get version 9" for free?
That seems more logical.

Perhaps they're changing the name or the numbering scheme?

- zevo

ORIGINAL: strikinglyhandsome1
I'm sure the Cakewalk chaps who frequent this forum will come on and reveal all.
If you mention the VS 700 they appear from nowhere.
I'll try and lure them: Will the new paid update work well with the VS 700?

Hehehe.
I suppose the details will emerge soon enough.

I've held off Sonar 8 so far, and had decided to skip it and wait for 9 (or whatever's next).
But I'd definitely give it a go if I'm going to get the full version of 9 whenever it comes out.

- zevo

Looks like Roland has written a new chapter in CW history
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1760419

But guys-

They do this EVERY year! Always right around July / Aug, they start with the 'buy now- get free later" type of sales. Plus they do have some kind of promo every month.

Download! Yea, that IS different but lends one to think its got to be an update and NOT an upgrade. Prob because 8 was so substantial that its "update" this time around. We shall soon see.........

edit: forgot to mention that its always by purchase date and never by registration date. Its the date of purchase that determines everything, because one can register any ole time.

Wonderful, after 2 rounds of not doing this, (free upgrades) they are now advertising it.

I just bought the upgrade to 8 at $129, havnt even done a project with it yet.

I guess thats what I get for being a constant paying customer, Im sure you all remember the way this went over the last 2 rounds.

ORIGINAL: strikinglyhandsome1

I'm sure the Cakewalk chaps who frequent this forum will come on and reveal all.

If you mention the VS 700 they appear from nowhere.

I'll try and lure them: Will the new paid update work well with the VS 700?

ORIGINAL: RodC
I just bought the upgrade to 8 at $129, havnt even done a project with it yet.

I got it for the same promo price at sweetwater. The upgrade price now for producer is back to the usual $179. So what's the complaint, exactly? You got a 28% discount off the normal upgrade price, plus probably free shipping.

I guess thats what I get for being a constant paying customer, Im sure you all remember the way this went over the last 2 rounds.

The last was buy v5 get v6 for free. Every version subsequent to v6 had some special promo price leading up to the next release (e.g., $99 upgrades). They have not done the "get the next version free" promo with one exception: they've always had a 30-day or so grace period for buyers of the previous version. Alex or somebody said last August or thereabouts: we're not doing the "get the next version free" this year (w/ v8), so don't even ask.

So how exactly do you feel ripped off? Is that you expect there to be a "get the next version free" promo with every single release? Except for the typical grace period around the time of the next release, expecting that the company will always have a certain promo deal every year is a little ridiculous, no?

ORIGINAL: Marah
It's always interesting when you get an offer and, before deciding whether you want to take it or not, you first have to decide whether its language is intentionally slippery or unintentionally sloppy.

Indeed.

Is it intentionally slippery: something I don't usually equate to Cake, but that I've had from other companies enough before to be worried. Cake's still a for-profit company with a sales/marketing department like any other.

Or is it unintentionally sloppy: something I also don't usually equate to Cake, but after watching Mac users trying to decipher the Dim Pro installer/updater instructions for the Leopard patch, as well as the confused threads regarding the instructions for one of the earlier Sonar 8 updates (can't remember which one), I suppose this is also a possibility.

I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it's just a poorly/quickly worded promo, on the heels of another promo that ended yesterday (I think).
But the Steinbergian-like feeling I have after the P5 cancellation (it's coming, it's coming, good year ahead... nevermind, it's not coming after all, it's canceled), I'm having a harder time with the benefit of doubt than I used to. (sorry for the comparison... former SX3 users will understand what I mean)

Perhaps we should just start a thread and specifically ask:
Is this for version 9? Or not?

They don't usually use bait-and-switch/sly-dog tactics. At least, not in my experience.

- zevo

ORIGINAL: inmazevo
Perhaps we should just start a thread and specifically ask:
Is this for version 9? Or not?

I'm going to out on a limb here... no. It's a "paid update".

ORIGINAL: strikinglyhandsome1

Free to handsome posters

Looks like just me then

Enjoy! Do tell us if there were any improvements to the staff view...

ORIGINAL: strikinglyhandsome1

ORIGINAL: keith

ORIGINAL: strikinglyhandsome1

Free to handsome posters

Looks like just me then

Enjoy! Do tell us if there were any improvements to the staff view...

I believe that will be in the Buy now, Pay Later upgrade

As long as it's not in the Buy Now, Buy Again Later upgrade...

I'm guessing the 'and get and get' bit in the email is unintentionally sloppy...

Could it be the stammering is associated with nervousness?

Yes, you read that correctly:...

edit: double words double words