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Well, according to the new FAQ on cakewalk.com the free version will continue to be free and wont be removed it seems. So that is a plus! The bad news is that sub price. At that price you may as well just get Bitwig if you don't mind that much per year. You would get way more value that way. Otherwise the most affordable option and the greatest value is Reaper. No sub required and you are covered for 2 versions of the software.

21 hours ago, Xoo said:

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Now you're just making me hungry! ?

Enjoy your sub guys. No need for me to even tell you "I told you so" ?

"dial-up the demon in your drums"

This here is a no demon household. No demons allowed here! So I'll pass. ??✝️  ⚡ ?

Just one of the reasons of many that I switched to another DAW.

You can download free VGM's from here https://www.zophar.net/music/sega-mega-drive-genesis , then use the RYMCast to sample the synth sounds and load them into RYM2612 to play them. I tried sampling a famous Sonic game music and was able to play the same synth sounds using the RYM2612 which is cool!

I already have UVI Xtreme FX 1 and 2. UVI Meteor. The free foley library that comes with Davinci Resolve Studio. And WA Production Ultimate FX Bundle 3.  I don't know if getting this would be overkill or just duplicate was of space. I am already covered when it comes to synths, so I don't see the need to get Krotos Concept.

It's funny that I keep adding the free waves plugins to my account but I will not install anything related to Waves in my PC. I get them to satisfy my G.A.S. even though I will never use them! ?

I had to come to the realization that I am not a musician, but a plugin collector. ?

1 hour ago, jngnz said:

Can't download in NA ?

I was able to download with no issue 

Mine just came through now! 6:55 AM EST

3 minutes ago, audioschmaudio said:

I didn't receive anything though. Did you?

it says this on the site: "Licenses are issued manually, so please allow for up to 48 hours after entry to receive yours."

Oh, snap. I was too late again! >_<

anyone here have a spare code?

I ALWAYS ignore EVERY "Sponsored" post on any social media! Easy way to avoid scams. 

2 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

Link to video?

While I'm aware Reaper has tons of customizations, I have yet to find anything that wouldn't take a Full time job to make work as easily as Cakewalk in addition to looking as pleasing (I use a custom Cakewalk theme - not the default)

Just watch the latest Arturia videos, LOL!

Someone forgot to put the cake in the fridge and is now suffering the consequences. The longer it takes, the worst it gets.

Cutting sugar intake is good though, especially added sugar. So your body will thank you I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah. I will say that Cakewalk is the easiest to get into for beginners for figuring out the basics. That was the case for me. Every other DAW I tried a trial of at the time was too confusing in comparison. But once you learn the basics, it's good to branch out and see what's out there. This was easy for me to do because Cakewalk was free.

1 hour ago, 53mph said:

Reaper users are like lynx users....or People's Temple converts. 

Come on and drink the kool aid! ?

LOL! This is what people on other forums may be like. But after my disappointment with Sonar then finding a video of a cool layout of Reaper, I decided to check it out. I was impressed by how much more it can do than all versions of Cakewalk. Both in theme customization and functionality customization. And at $60 it was an easy decision. 

3 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

What subscription scheme are you referring to? To my knowledge, Cakewalk have announced neither a subscription model nor a perpetual model for Sonar licensing.

They currently have something where you get access to a pre-release version of it with a BandLab membership. But it's only a pre-release, not the actual shipping version.

Did I miss something?

You missed a whole thread LOL! 

If I say anything anymore people will think I'm angry and just lock the thread. So I'm just here reading other people's post and reacting to the same thing I have been saying all along. ??

1 hour ago, Doug Rintoul said:

Really? Where did you read that?

It's what the people in the forum have chosen ?

1 minute ago, paulo said:

So you're saying that reaper sounds better than reason? By how much? 20-40%?

Funny thing is I knew someone would make the joke about Reason when I typed "reason". ? 

I had Reason 11 Suite for years now and only use it as a plug-in for the Rack Extensions and it works just fine in Reaper so it has no reason (pun intended) to be mentioned in my original post unless your reason is different to my reason. But I don't see the reason in that. ?

 All the smoke and mirrors about the new Sonar and some people not seeing the obvious and listening to reason made me switch to Reaper.  

4 hours ago, colin DAVIS said:

Are they abandoning Ableton? Just asking for a friend ?????