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I buy the renewal from a third party, get around 30% discount when on a sale. It's still the real deal. I don't necessarily buy it when the subscription is running out, but usually a few months ahead. It adds to the end of the active subscription.

Getting Office for up to 6 people and up to 6TB of reliable file mirroring with a month of recovery for 69€ a year is a no brainer. There are ways to use all of the TBs with some tricks, if you don't have 6 family members.

I think the uncertainity about the pricing is annoying people and most if not all of us are thankful for the free Cakewalk. I bought the Sonar Platinum edition and I am not expecting a special treatment. But as users we will all think about the cost and benefits, vs other DAWs, in the long run.

Price is a huge question. Unknown commitment and market prospect makes my tolerance for high price, low. It will probably be "So long and thanks for all the fish" from me.

Saw this on KvrAudio: Pricing for both Cakewalk Sonar and Cakewalk Next will be provided as the products get closer to launch.

I guess that they are aiming for a brand religion that has more aura than specs that really matter or value. Just like the microphone business. How useful an aes67 on a tiny 4 channel interface with tiny touchscreen, remains to be seen.

How unremarkable for the price.

I think the main gripe with WUP was paying for getting next to nothing in new features. A few plugins were pimped up and some ancient plugins perhaps look better now on high dpi displays.

I wondered why they didn't just introduce the subscriptions and just stop having sales. The standard prices are ridiculous anyway so it would seem like a less hostile way to push to subscription. Anyway, I only eyed Clarity VX as something I didn't have and was interested in.

Generate the grooves with Jamstix and Jamcussion add on. Groove monkey, Yummybeats, Looploft have midi or audio that can be converted to midi with Melodyne.

Congrats! This has serious Bomb the Bass vibe!

You don't have to reinstall the OS (for Windows), at least it's extremely unlikely nowadays, unless it's regarding boot settings in BIOS, but I doubt that it is a problem.. The main pain are the license issues of plugins and software. Just clone the OS drive, put it in your current system and boot from it, unzip chipset drivers, remove current chipset drivers (and GPU drivers if switching between AMD/Nvidia), put the drive in your new system and boot. This is what I usually do, sometimes you can get away with not removing chipset drivers or run setup before you switch motherboards.

This might help in some cases in Windows with 2.5k or 4K displays (I'll use protools.exe as an example I don't know if it works on Pro Tools, but it works for several older software that doesn't support high resolutions): Get this into registry (to turn it off change the 1 to 0), either manually or put it in a file file called e.g. externalmanifest.reg. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide] "PreferExternalManifest"=dword:00000001 A Windows restart might be needed. Then create a file called protools.exe.manifest and put it into same folder as the executable: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT" version="9.0.21022.8" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b"> </assemblyIdentity> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> <asmv3:application> <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings"> <ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware> </asmv3:windowsSettings> </asmv3:application> </assembly>

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/fanatical-music-bundle-2-by-magix 10 bucks, contains: Music Maker (Latest Edition) Incl 2 Coupons Samplitude Music Studio 2020 Sound Forge Audio Studio 13 Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab 1 MAGIX MP3 Deluxe 19

Yeah, I have some doubles when I bought Total Studio Max 2 last year, and then some.