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2013/12/29 11:37:20 (permalink)

twenty-dollar coupon

I got an email today from the Cakewalk folks. Twenty dollars off any purchase from the Cakewalk store before December 31.
Including X3 upgrades... but does that mean upgrading from X3a to X3c or to X3 Studio or Producer? Or does it mean upgrades from earlier Cakewalk products to X3?
In other words, will I be able to get X3 for $29 after the coupon is redeemed?
I realize ya'll may not know the answer, but maybe a baker will chime in before the offer expires.

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 11:43:40 (permalink)
I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I did go as far as filling up the shopping cart.  The code gave me $20 off on upgrading from X2-PE to X3-PE.  Then it gave me another $20 off for the media.  
 
I would have gone through with the deal, but it was late and I was tired.  I didn't want to mess up the transaction.  I may go for it today.  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 12:45:37 (permalink)
It's supposedly for any product Cake has exclusive rights to so I'd imagine that would include an upgrade. Just put the purchase through, use the code and see if it knocks $20 of the final total. If not get a hold of support because I'm pretty sure they'd want you to have X3 and I see no reason why this promo wouldn't work toward that goal.
 
I haven't had too much time to play around with X3 but from what I've done so far I'd say this one is something for Cake to be proud of.
 
And thanks for reminding me about this. I gotta remember to this tomorrow (and now this thread will remind me). I'm in far too much pain today and have to get ready for an excursion into the big bad world tomorrow so I'm trying to remain as still as possible.
 
Lemmy is keeping me sane and entertained as I wait for the muscles to quit being jerks. Inspiring fellow. Sadly after watching the newest doc about him I don't think he's long for this world. Kind of has the feel of the interviews Johnny Cash did in the final years. Guy is freaking diabetic with a pacemaker and still slamming Jack and Cokes and sucking back the smokes and dog knows what else. I really hope I'm wrong because I want to meet that crazy old bastard before he spreads his demon wings and flies away into the night.
 
But that's a little OT. Seriously I see no reason why the coupon wouldn't apply. You should at least get studio though. Much more bang for the buck.
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 13:18:52 (permalink)
I haven't been in a big rush to upgrade because I need to upgrade my PC to take advantage of the new features.  With the extra $20 off, it's hard not to jump on it.  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 13:28:35 (permalink)
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I haven't been in a big rush to upgrade because I need to upgrade my PC to take advantage of the new features.  With the extra $20 off, it's hard not to jump on it.  




Huh... what features won't work on your rig? The Melodyne stuff? I haven't gotten a chance to try that out yet myself. Looks cool though.
 
Still the core of the program is much better IMO from my initial experience so if you have X2 running it should still be a step up just as far as the core DAW. Just a lot smoother and more pleasurable to work with. At this point of usage with X2 I had experienced kind a few little quirks and bugs and a lot of graphical nonsense. Haven't had a single thing go weird (that wasn't my own fault for being a spazz) with X3 so far and I haven't changed a thing on my system. A hardcore editing session will be the true test though... especially in regards to audiosnap. I've only been doing some scratch tracks and arrangement type editing.
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 13:32:26 (permalink)
I've really got too much stuff 600GB of softsynths, I don't need anymore...I don't even want anymore!

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 13:51:15 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Shambler 2013/12/29 14:11:45
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I've really got too much stuff 600GB of softsynths, I don't need anymore...I don't even want anymore!




Oh, yeah. I really didn't need any of that extra stuff (as I mentioned a few times and got dogpiled over a couple times) but X2 was driving me insane with the constant disruptions and wackiness. Like I said the DAW itself is just a lot smoother so far which is what I needed. I already had all the top synths because of the X1 Suite and although Addictive Drums is very nice (I've been using it on my current project just to try it out) I own BFD Eco which I prefer (but IDK... AD is giving it a run for it's money).
 
As far as the effects... well I'm really happy with the PC stuff and kind of scoffed at the Nomad stuff but I've played with a few of those too and darned if I don't like them. It has some specific models that I had seen in a lot of tuts (obviously the higher end versions but they still operate the same) and wanted to try out. Like the Pultec style EQ. That's not the type of thing I'd really go out of my way to pay for at the moment but getting those alternate effects is quite nice.
 
Meh... I was pretty ticked off for a while but I gotta say, I'm feeling like Cake made good on this and really the DAW itself is where it should be which is all I truly cared about.
 
Hopefully that doesn't come across fanboi-ish because things really were getting dicey there for a while and I was ready to jump ship in a major way. Fortunately that doesn't seem necessary now.
 
You guys are more seasoned than I am though so you don't need my opinions. Just bored and blathering.
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 14:13:07 (permalink)
Of course if you want to use the coupon to upgrade X2 to X3 then yes it makes complete sense!

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 14:36:23 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Shambler 2013/12/29 14:51:42
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Of course if you want to use the coupon to upgrade X2 to X3 then yes it makes complete sense!




Heh. I totally misinterpreted your post. Sorry. If I actually had some extra money I'd probably put it towards the CL Limiter but I don't and the list of stuff it'll work for I either have already or don't really need. I'm probably just going to upgrade my PC2A to the full VST version. Not sure how much more useful that'll be to me but what the heck, eh? ;-)
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 14:58:42 (permalink)
No sorry required Beepster my apologies!
 
I was just reminding myself that it's about time I wrote some decent music with all the ( scared to even think about the cost ) softsynths and 2 hardware synths I already own.
 
 

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 15:07:18 (permalink)
I hear ya. With everything that's been going on these past few years and constantly being at war with my body I've finally got all the resources I need, mostly know how to use it all and just can't seem to get any bloody tracks done. This should hopefully be a good month though. Just gotta do this sh*t tomorrow and I won't have much else to do but dive in.
 
Here's hopin' you get some inspiration yourself. In fact let's all crank out some tunes this month. Jan/Feb are kind of boring arse anyway. Great time to write/produce.
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 15:47:10 (permalink)
Here's to inspiration!

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 16:11:23 (permalink)
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Here's to inspiration!




Cheers!
 

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 18:23:17 (permalink)
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I haven't been in a big rush to upgrade because I need to upgrade my PC to take advantage of the new features.  With the extra $20 off, it's hard not to jump on it.  




Huh... what features won't work on your rig? The Melodyne stuff? I haven't gotten a chance to try that out yet myself. Looks cool though.
 
Still the core of the program is much better IMO from my initial experience so if you have X2 running it should still be a step up just as far as the core DAW. Just a lot smoother and more pleasurable to work with. At this point of usage with X2 I had experienced kind a few little quirks and bugs and a lot of graphical nonsense. Haven't had a single thing go weird (that wasn't my own fault for being a spazz) with X3 so far and I haven't changed a thing on my system. A hardcore editing session will be the true test though... especially in regards to audiosnap. I've only been doing some scratch tracks and arrangement type editing.


I've had X2 for a year and haven't really used R-MIX and a couple of other things.  I would guess that Melodyne on X3 might have the same situation.  I have an old AMD that was cutting edge at one time.  I think it's a 1.85 GHz.  I have plenty of disc space, though.  Minimum system requirement is listed as 2.4 GHz.  I also don't have enough RAM.  It's a different PC than the one I'm surfing on, so I can't look at the moment.  
 
I haven't had a chance to upgrade the hardware because I've been distracted with some health issues.  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 19:39:41 (permalink)
Hope you get to feeling better there Old. I feel guilty calling you old lol. 
 
If you get a good deal on an upgrade and you have older hardware. X3 should still run on it if  it ran X2 ok.
Even if you don't use it for months or decide to upgrade your hardware next year Cakewalk keeps your serial numbers on their server and all you need to do is download it into your new machine after you decommission it in the old one.
I have no idea exactly how your system is set up but minimum number of tracks with minimum soft synths on a 32 bit 4gb memory restriction should still allow you to use it at least in a limited way.
 
Does anyone know if 20.00 sale is still on for the videos on X3?

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 20:45:34 (permalink)
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Hope you get to feeling better there Old. I feel guilty calling you old lol. 
 
If you get a good deal on an upgrade and you have older hardware. X3 should still run on it if  it ran X2 ok.
Even if you don't use it for months or decide to upgrade your hardware next year Cakewalk keeps your serial numbers on their server and all you need to do is download it into your new machine after you decommission it in the old one.
I have no idea exactly how your system is set up but minimum number of tracks with minimum soft synths on a 32 bit 4gb memory restriction should still allow you to use it at least in a limited way.
 
Does anyone know if 20.00 sale is still on for the videos on X3?


Well, I am old.  There's no changing that.  My handle was actually inspired by the Tom Waits song that was also covered by the Eagles.  
 
Some of my Christmas gifts were were gift cards, I looking at a few strategies on how to use them towards upgrading my DAW.  It may take a little while, though.  Yeah, I can probably get it work on my current rig, but it will annoy me a lot not being able to use all the features which are the reason to get X3 in the first place.  I may just get it X3 now and install it on the new machine once it's up and running.  
 
I haven't really tried to check how many tracks I can actually use.  X2 has mostly done what I've need on the older hardware--just without the fancy stuff.  I think my main problem is that I can't add memory without buying RAM and a new OS.  I just rather upgrade the whole thing and get it set up right instead of investing time and money for a machine that will probably just limp along.  
 
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/29 20:52:51 (permalink)
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Hope you get to feeling better there Old. I feel guilty calling you old lol. 
 
If you get a good deal on an upgrade and you have older hardware. X3 should still run on it if  it ran X2 ok.
Even if you don't use it for months or decide to upgrade your hardware next year Cakewalk keeps your serial numbers on their server and all you need to do is download it into your new machine after you decommission it in the old one.
I have no idea exactly how your system is set up but minimum number of tracks with minimum soft synths on a 32 bit 4gb memory restriction should still allow you to use it at least in a limited way.
 
Does anyone know if 20.00 sale is still on for the videos on X3?


PS--try following the "Buy" link on the e-mail, put the video in the shopping cart and apply the code.  It will tell you if it will take it or not.  Then you can cancel or delete the order.  I did that and it gave me the discount for the upgrade and the media.  It didn't give me the discount for Craig Anderton's Mini-Moog voices for Rapture.  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/30 08:12:18 (permalink)
Hi,
 
I got the coupon to get the X3 for $49 bux.
 
I'm having a big debate on it, but I'm pretty sure that help with it, is not gonna be fun, and that is preventing me from using it.
 
I'm soooooooo down on music software anything, as more than half of it is such a rip off! And we pay for it.
 No different than putting up with taxes or the bapu'esque adventures in this forum! There's always Harry Potter!
 

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/30 18:42:44 (permalink)
Thanks Old . Might as well try the code and see what happens then.Nothing to loose.
 
Good luck with getting the computer situation sorted out ok.
 
 

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/30 20:31:44 (permalink)
Thanks, Tim.  I guess the clock is ticking on the $20 coupon.  I'll have to decide that first.  Good luck with the shopping cart.  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/30 23:17:56 (permalink)
Pulled the trigger.  It's downloading now.  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 01:56:54 (permalink)
Got it. Twenty-nine bucks!
Offer expires 12-31-13.
Just finished the downloads.

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 11:18:00 (permalink)
Very good, Greg.  I've also got X3 on the HD here.  It may be a while before I actually install it though.  
 
Do I need to get the "D" upgrade?  Or is the download the latest and greatest?  

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 12:45:41 (permalink)
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Very good, Greg.  I've also got X3 on the HD here.  It may be a while before I actually install it though.  
 
Do I need to get the "D" upgrade?  Or is the download the latest and greatest?  




AFAIK you will need to patch it however you may want to start with the B patch because apparently the C patch introduced some issues (while resolving many others but they were rare). Might want to do the restore point thing for each patch and see what works and what doesn't. Like patch to "b", create a restore point, patch to "c", create a restore point, patch to "d", create a restore point.
 
Depending on how much disk space you have allotted to restore points and how frequently you update windows on your system (which bumps older restore points of the list) you should be able to access those restore points for a while but if you want to hang onto them for a longer time period you could go into Windows and up the allowed storage for restore points and they remain on your sytem for longer.
 
Here is what I've gathered. The "a" patch is imperative. Like it was a quickfix for the usual post release issues and absolutely needs to be there but the "b" patch didn't seem to break anything so you might as well just go straight to "b" (which I think is cumulative as are all of them... I think).
 
The "b" patch had like almost no reports of problems on the forum. There just was hardly any threads complaining about it. There were some obscure things going on that didn't seem to affect most users so to me unless you are being affected by those specific issues it's a safe bet.
 
The "c" patch is what I'm on now and seems to have generated quite a few threads/problems. Most notably there is the 64bit engine/CE hum issue and some other oddities that seem to pop up. Quite a few more complaint threads after its release BUT it did fix a large list of other issues. I personally have not experienced the 64 bit engine/CE bug since patching to C nor any of the other issues as of yet. One thing I did notice though was that X3 became quite a bit less "snappy". Like it loaded slower and it just generally became a little bit more sluggish. This may be particularly relevant to you because of your system resource concerns and is why I brought up maybe sticking to the "b" patch if you find the "c" patch  problematic.
 
Then there is the "d" patch. I have not as yet upgraded and it is really quite fresh. There are video improvements and I guess some attempts to fix the problems introduced in "c" and obviously other stuff. It was released right before the holidays so although there doesn't seem to be many problem threads at this point that could simply be because everyone has been too busy doing holiday stuff to report issues or even install the patch. It could obviously also be it is just working fine but I'm giving it until the middle of January to form an opinion about how well it has been received.
 
So... probably more info than you were looking for but perhaps relevant.
 
The simple answer to your question is, yes. You "need" to patch but if you choose to patch to b, c, or d it will be cumulative.
 
Cheers and have fun. It is a very nice upgrade.
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 15:46:50 (permalink)
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Very good, Greg.  I've also got X3 on the HD here.  It may be a while before I actually install it though.  
 
Do I need to get the "D" upgrade?  Or is the download the latest and greatest?  




AFAIK you will need to patch it however you may want to start with the B patch because apparently the C patch introduced some issues (while resolving many others but they were rare). Might want to do the restore point thing for each patch and see what works and what doesn't. Like patch to "b", create a restore point, patch to "c", create a restore point, patch to "d", create a restore point.
 
Depending on how much disk space you have allotted to restore points and how frequently you update windows on your system (which bumps older restore points of the list) you should be able to access those restore points for a while but if you want to hang onto them for a longer time period you could go into Windows and up the allowed storage for restore points and they remain on your sytem for longer.
 
Here is what I've gathered. The "a" patch is imperative. Like it was a quickfix for the usual post release issues and absolutely needs to be there but the "b" patch didn't seem to break anything so you might as well just go straight to "b" (which I think is cumulative as are all of them... I think).
 
The "b" patch had like almost no reports of problems on the forum. There just was hardly any threads complaining about it. There were some obscure things going on that didn't seem to affect most users so to me unless you are being affected by those specific issues it's a safe bet.
 
The "c" patch is what I'm on now and seems to have generated quite a few threads/problems. Most notably there is the 64bit engine/CE hum issue and some other oddities that seem to pop up. Quite a few more complaint threads after its release BUT it did fix a large list of other issues. I personally have not experienced the 64 bit engine/CE bug since patching to C nor any of the other issues as of yet. One thing I did notice though was that X3 became quite a bit less "snappy". Like it loaded slower and it just generally became a little bit more sluggish. This may be particularly relevant to you because of your system resource concerns and is why I brought up maybe sticking to the "b" patch if you find the "c" patch  problematic.
 
Then there is the "d" patch. I have not as yet upgraded and it is really quite fresh. There are video improvements and I guess some attempts to fix the problems introduced in "c" and obviously other stuff. It was released right before the holidays so although there doesn't seem to be many problem threads at this point that could simply be because everyone has been too busy doing holiday stuff to report issues or even install the patch. It could obviously also be it is just working fine but I'm giving it until the middle of January to form an opinion about how well it has been received.
 
So... probably more info than you were looking for but perhaps relevant.
 
The simple answer to your question is, yes. You "need" to patch but if you choose to patch to b, c, or d it will be cumulative.
 
Cheers and have fun. It is a very nice upgrade.


It's all very relevent information.  Thanks, Beep.  Happy New Year. 

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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 16:34:29 (permalink)
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It's all very relevent information.  Thanks, Beep.  Happy New Year. 




Glad to provide any info I can... and thanks. Looking forward to a good one.
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 17:19:01 (permalink)
Beeps/Jan. All patches after A are cumulative. Many a Baker has confirmed that here.
 
IOW, if you install X3 from the DVD (which did not include A, only the initial DL did) or the initial DL, you only need install D.
 
IIRC the only time this may NOT be true is with hot fixes (of which we have not gotten in X3).
post edited by bapu - 2013/12/31 17:21:12
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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 21:11:06 (permalink)
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Beeps/Jan. All patches after A are cumulative. Many a Baker has confirmed that here.
 
IOW, if you install X3 from the DVD (which did not include A, only the initial DL did) or the initial DL, you only need install D.
 
IIRC the only time this may NOT be true is with hot fixes (of which we have not gotten in X3).


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Re: twenty-dollar coupon 2013/12/31 22:22:09 (permalink)
As I recall, the download reads "includes X3a" or something like that.
I've been busy today, so next year I hope to load it on the music computer and give it a good whirl.

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