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With the new BandLab Product Center it is possible to download and install offline! Also it supports offline authorization!

That wouldn't surprise me!

Steinberg reminds me more and more of Apple that break a lot of old stuff gaining no real improvement! 😆 For the users and the music world Vst3 brought a lot of traps and caused immense effort until now!

I bought some apples at the grocery store, too! 😆

I agree, it is very weird! Usually the marketing people work out prices and versions while the development team is working on the software. So that they are ready when the product is "feature-complete".

Sorry, but it's misspelled: HOT in Swedish (=threat in English)! 😄

Don't forget there are trends! Even if it's not successful many people from universities believe in trends! It's stupid, but it's that easy sometimes!

That's what I was thinking, too. But seeing what has been happening since the announcement I am not so sure anymore whether BL wants to keep the "old" Sonar folk. I think they have noticed that most of them are not interested in the BL universe, but only in CbB!

Sorry, but Ripple Editing was already a part of Sonar Platinum! Though the "20 years" number is an exaggeration, I agree that most of the functionality is already present in Sonar Platinum, even in Sonar X3 there is not a lot of difference IMO! But you are correct that Articulation Maps, Tempo Track, Arranger and the new Export Window have been added to CbB. If you don't use them like me (except export window), then the difference is really feeble! But YMMV, as always!

I can tell you that currently it is very interesting upstairs again (similar to the time you mention)!!! A lot of smoke and no answers, users are treated like fools again! Delay tatics and no clear statements! I think I've lost confidence or shall I say they have fanned my mistrust! If it goes on like this, then I predict the end of Sonar!

The only question that arises: Is a license really perpetual, if it has to be reactivated each 6 months? Can you trust that you will be able to reactivate in the future? Or will they urge you to buy a new version, again?

People that don't visit the Deals section? I can understand that someone is only browsing the Deals forum and isn't going "upstairs", but inverse? Unbelievable! 😆

Though I like that decentsampler and such rival Kontakt, it's a problem that I almost never use them! Having that many Kontakt and other Vst instruments I forget about them! 😆

I would be interested in a good deal of the Lexicon delay or the 285 delay (though I already have too many delays)! Other than that a great deal on oldTimerMB, MasterQ2 or Xenon limiter would be welcome! 😄

I like it, great, very special transient plugin for some special cases! A must have IMO!

Once they had very affordable plugins. But in the last years their prices have increased a lot!

Lately there are some very good PSP deals, but only for plugins that I already have! 😞 Okay, maybe I have too many, but there are some I am waiting for a deal for a long time!

IMHO it would be a much more important improvement, if they added the possibility to enter a value for the controls! I miss this especially for channel strips, without they are almost not usable for me! But also for EQs and compressors this would be nice!

IMO Bandlab gambles for high stakes! Lately I read a lot of comments that sound like long-term advocates here on this forum are disappointed and irritated. Many of them express their backup solutions. Me too, I have a backup solution. I can live absolutely without Sonar! All this here reminds me dreadfully to the Gibson debacle. I fear that this really could be the last days for Sonar! I guess many will not be willing to invest in the unsteadiness of this daw's future!

You can accomplish the same effect by eating the appropriate food! That makes more fun IMO (I like food)! 😆

Africano?

I always use offline authorisation with iZotope and had no problems so far! Though I don't like machine activations, they are one of the companies where installations go smooth, but as said without Product Portal.

https://www.jrrshop.com/izotope-ddly

This is the major reason I doubt on AI in music production! Tell me what software does recognize transients reliable and distinct (even for drums/percussion tracks)!? If you compare the results of a couple of DAWs and plugins (Melodyne, drum replacers, ...), then you realize they're all different! As long as the developers don't get this done, AI is not more than a pipe dream IMHO!!!

Regrettably this deal is too late for me 😞 (I purchased lately 2 things I was interested in and have the Syntronik stuff since a long time). But I also have a new problem: I could activate Miroslav Philharmonik CE (even offline on my other pc), but in SampleTank 4 CS it is shown "not activated", strange! But as someone said above, it's those weird IK installation and authorization thing! EDIT: Suddenly it is authorized also in ST4! I don't know why, but it's okay now. 😅