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5 hours ago, antler said:

 

Apparently,  FL studio isn't considered a direct competitor - or it wasn't 7 months ago.

 

Fair enough. Some DAWs wouldn't list FL Studio in crossgrade deals.  Maybe they figured out it is hard to pull those people away from their lifetime upgrades.

1 minute ago, P-Rizzy said:

it seems that they abandoned this forum. it's pretty much dead. 

only one moderator is here - this thread will eventually get deleted

Looperator - someone already complained "we are not beginners".

FL became popular because anyone could use it.

They annoying part is installing an update doesn't overwrite.  You have to removed older versions. My DAW shortcuts are on the taskbar and you end up opening older versions.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1110910/discussions/

3 hours ago, Nitrate Audio said:

I just tired it briefly, still on the old one as my main DAW. So far I haven't seen much new but scanning and verifying plugins works much faster.  

Scanning was always quick compared to other DAWs.

Their plugin manager still annoys me

5 hours ago, Fleer said:

Got the Producer’s version. Missing anything?

Always check their forum.  They also post whats new videos 

Even though I'm a FL Fanboy this post will be removed since it violates the forum guidelines.

4 hours ago, fjz said:

I bet they do something for you.

Your price should indeed be $44. This is a special case which is not
handled correctly by our website which we will correct shortly.

In the meantime, I can offer you the $44 pricing. Let me know if you
are interested and I will send you a Paypal invoice.

I might do that only because their support is always top notch.
 

I just emailed sales.  

42 minutes ago, RummieGit said:

...has a longtime Cakewalk user ever tried to open Cakewalk By Bandlab projects with an old version of Cakewalk Sonar (e.g. Sonar X3 Studio or Sonar Home Studio)? And if so, what particular differences do the projects opened there show compared to the original?

it depends  guess if  you did 32 bit plugins that are no longer installed

my .bun made with Sonar 2 open up in Cakewalk

I'd listen to recordings of something similar.

I started on Music Creator which came bundled with those midi cab;es via serial port that never worked in Windows.  Cakewalk, Sonic Foundry and Magix has boxed software at Best Buy, Staples.

Next was Home Studio and gave a great deal on upgrading to Sonar 2,  which is still my favorite because it's not cluttered like most DAWs.

I did skip S6 - they were getting like Finale with paid upgrades every year.  That put off some since the new versions didn't fix the problems.

When I bought HS 2002 they actually had demos of other software.  I was getting turned off by the cluttered GUIs and tried the lite version of FL Studio that came with HS 2002.  I became an FL fanboy.

 I don't collect plugins as much as I do DAWs. All I need is a Mac and have Logic, PT, and DP, I think I have them all covered.

BTW Cakewalk was a pioneer in the industry.  I do believe it was the 1st 64 bit DAW,

On 5/15/2024 at 9:06 AM, Bapu said:

I ran with that using Voyetra Sequence Plus Gold before I switched to Cakewalk.

I was a fan of Voyetra software.  I have DOP and their staff writing software.   

12 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Thanks for clarifying that your deal was through a Professional Series Custom Offer.  The only Custom Offers I qualify for are for Sound Packs since I had all the previously current instruments and was only missing the 2 upgrades.

I might ask them how does one qualify for Professional Series Custom Offer

so 3 less soundpacks and 2 less upgrades I'm now part of the have nots................

I might bring that up to support........

15 hours ago, GoncaloL said:

I dont have all of the sound packs

In your account dont you have an Offers/Upgrades tab? Its the first thing that appears there “complete your collection”.

Odd that I don't have that.

4 hours ago, Fleer said:

Make sure you have all sound packs and you should get upgrade pricing if you are up-to-date with all instruments except for Lounge Lizard and Multiphonics. 

GoncaloL doesn't and it's $44

I think I might pass even at $44.   I got 50% off from UVI - for one item so went with another Falcon expansion

Plus Orange Tree Group buy. I can't feed all of the kids. 

 I pretty much dumped Sonar around 6 as the GUI kept getting cluttered but still bought licenses 7 and on.

So in some ways the "I can't have" kicks in over "not really needed".

The real question is can we still use SPLAT.

Give them credit for making the new Sonar to have some backward compatibility.  Often stuffed shirts would find a way to ruin that.

2 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Thanks for clarifying that. I have used the Offers tabs a number of times over the years and looked at all 4 tabs again as always.  That's how I got the $49 for each when I added them to the cart either from the Upgrades tab or the Upgrades section in the All tab.  I have no idea what others did to get a $44 combined price.

I know several years ago (after some individual instrument purchases and upgrades) I did an all missing instruments upgrade (complete your collection). Just looked it up--mid 2021.  Maybe that can only be used once?  Maybe it doesn't apply to missing upgrades?

Did you have CV-1 and/or CV-2 or was CV-3 a new instrument added along with the EP-5 upgrade?  Maybe that's the difference:  add Multiphonics as a missing instrument, get a discount ($44 instead of $49) and get a free EP-5 upgrade?

The Custom tab has a reduced "Complete Your Collection" rate for Sound Packs.  My customized offers do not include a "Upgrade Your Instrument Collection."  Did you get the $44 deal with a special "Complete Your Collection" rate for Instruments?  

A few days ago I saw a video about how Canada is targeting businesses in six US States. I am in one of them.  They didn't mention targeting music products, but who knows?  

I'm not one of them and still have the same issue. I think that is being a little paranoid.

I guess we should contact support.  I can't see AAS doing that unless forced but they would work another way to comply.  There's too much competition out there for any developer to mess the political stuff.  I wonder if PA now under the 3 headed monster is still denying the paid for licenses of Russian citizens.

44 for both might entice me, 49 each - there's way too much stuff out there that would be better spent when it comes to 98. 

If it were $49 or less for annual sub I would give it come thought

25 minutes ago, GoncaloL said:

Do you have all the other instruments? Maybe thats the reason idk

I have them all and I'm not getting that offer either. 

If you have Requiem Pro you get a discount.  If it isn't in your email contact support.

21 minutes ago, CSistine said:

Yes, when BandLab increased the re-authorization cycle to 4 weeks, I dropped CbB and now I use Platinum and Reaper. (I use 3 systems, 2 of them offline and the re-auth takes not some seconds as someone pretended above. For all 3 it takes minimum 1 hour and it is a hassle; one pc is in another building).

By the way I also installed Sonar X3 and I wondered that there is not a lot I am missing!

I've always archived my DAWs. I always thought Plat was X3.

I use to keep old versions installed since the exe was only 18mb.  

The danger is discontinue software is the spread of illegal versions and that come with other nasties.

Anyone thought of installing the last version of Sonar that was under Gibson?

7 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

I'd agree if one was stuck in that ecosystem, but if you work cross platform yourself or with bamdmates that lands right back to the Sonar situation.

I guess it also depends on what you need and how you work with the DAW.  Reaper is a lot less expensive even though Logic came down dramatically in price since the early days.

I think Logic is now a pay once like FL Studio.

Studio One is now like Waves with their WUP.

It seems like some developers are doing better updates.  

I've become more of a fan of the EDM type DAWs like FL and Live.

I still haven't installed this new Sonar yet.  I just need more DAW shortcuts on my taskbar.

2 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Hard to imagine using anything other than Reaper for that use case.  

Sadly so many people use Macs.

If I did I would just go with Logic