dubdisciple

I agree that this forum has always attracted people who think everything should be free and will take any chance they can to rationalize borderline piracy. In this case though, the wounds of "lifetime subscription" never healed. Logically that was the misstep of a totally different company, but still stings. My concern is one of pure pragmatism. I am a longtime Cakewalk user who paid for many editions. Sonar was often innovative and were early to have features like channel strips, ARA intergration and analog emulation. DAWs have since caught up in those areas and have always handled issues like sampling better. A paid version of Cakewalk would have to outshine a lot of competition both paid and free. Pro Tools is still pro tools. Logic has Mac crowd locked. Ableton and FL Studio have tight grip on EDM and hip-hop crowd, along with not exactly full DAWs like Maschine and MPC. Reaper is also a powerful option for powerful low cost ( and some count as free) option. Not to mention the slight resurgence of hardware trackers and workstations. I do give Bandlab a bit of a chance because they have a large base of cakewalk and bandlab users. Unfortunately that base, particularly the bandlab base are used to free. The ones that are willing to pay likely already own other paid DAWs.

I love PA but the game of when to buy because the best price is hard to predict from week to week.

Cakewalk would have to do something revolutionary to convince anyone to pay for it at this point.

I'm an educator . I signed up

Dan Worrall has already shown that ReaEQ nulls with the harrison channel strip

My initial response to this was, "why should i bother when i have no interest in subscribing?" and then I had a thought. I wonder if in 3 months I can get some of these plugins to null in my melda products? If I succeed with even one, it may be worth it. One thing I have discovered about Melda products is that with a lot of patience and technical know how, you can get them to sound damn close to other products.

I think some of these are as good or better(the comp diode jumps out) than UAD equivalents

I got a crossgrade price of only 99. Considering the few Arturia fx that I have were freebies, the price was more than fair. So far, I have one big regret. These have made a lot of plugins I have collected obsolete and I feel like I have a bunch of hard drive filler. These plugins are the truth and I have to redo a lot of templates.

The fact that I am not sure if i already own this is a sign i should not be looking at these sales ?

I purchased a few years ago. I tried for free and went back and donated

Just a reminder that although this can be had for free, you can set a price to show your appreciation. I think this is a one man operation.

Loom is one of the best low cost synths available

My price shows $99. Very tempting. Their fx are high quality

Good point. I think NI may overall value

Upgrade to NI Standard for $199 vs upgrade to Soundtoys bundle for $199 vs just save my money?

Not bad

Tempting, like it is every year, but i barely use my NI stuff now

I didn't like it at first, but it does come handy for kicking around ideas for me.

Scaler has given tremendous value

True, but can't be worse than Harrison. Maybe they can de-ugly their GUI's as well.

I am really hoping the SSL acquisition leads to a better marketing strategy. So far they have relied on 1) questionable claims about "analog" that have lead to unprofessional exchanges with people who call them on their inaccuracies . 2) repeating same line about hits made 40 years ago, which kind of implies people stopped making hits with their products. That may not be true, but you would think they would mention music from this century more often.

It is standalone too. I use it in studio one and mpc software

I use ca2a more than any other la2a clone

I probably did confuse it. I am extra tired these days

It finally does what many of us thought V1 would do.