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Or as @Jim Roseberry says, maybe I only need to spend $15 for a one month usage every now and then. As it is I probably only open up CbB for real use 2 or three times a year at most.

Since I no longer record/mix/master in CbB this is no great upset to me. My only observation is that once a person was on the Cakewalk train, a version update was $49 for years and then slowly crept up to $99 (IIRC) and then the Lifetime Update hit (and flopped obvs). In today's economy they've decided that $299, $399 or even $599 for a base product and then version updates at $49/$99 is better served by everyone in at $149/year. Hats off to BandLab, I say. Will I be a full on yearly member for on and on. Maybe.

Reaper to DAWProject format (which is doable, via a free 3rd party tool) so that it can be opened in Studio One is a bit more problematic given that Reaper has the most flexible track routing options (which can mean more complex). Since a track in Reaper is anything you want it to and ypu do that without being confined to any way of identifying what type of "track" it is. There is no formal track/bus/vca/aux/fx identification. Just route what you want where you want. Heck a Reaper track can be an instrument (ala Cakewalk) with audio in it too all the while being a folder. Why you would want to do that is beyond me but it probably would be done with horrendous results. I've seen reacwp make a valiant effort to structure a Reaper project out of folder, tracks and buses and as I said, I had some pretty good results in the 20 or so projects I tested. But I use mostly audio with some occasional simple MIDI. I just never went fully into using Reaper. I found Studio One a better fit for me.

If you want to go to Reaper, there is a painless way using azslow's plugin called reacwp it works pretty good for me for Audio only projects. All you do once reacwp is installed as a Reaper plugin, is open the .cwp in Reaper and save the Reaper project to wherever. I did discover that Cakewalk Instrument tracks have a wonky result from reacwp, so a quick fix is to move the MIDI to a MIDI track and routing that MIDI to the Instrument track which is extremely helpful before opening the .cwp file in Reaper. YMMV

My thoughts from my day one on FB. Killed my personal account so people would quit bugging me. I created a "music" account that I only use for User Groups and I've all but stopped going there too.

Installed!

Not Installed! I was sure I owned the Pro Version but a review of My Account says "no way Hose-A", yet I do get an offer of $123 since I own some "other" products.

nvm

30 files done 18 to go 61.4% of size done.

Probably their site since I have 2000Mbsec service but typically get 1000Mbsec.

Started downloading 4 hours ago and I'm at 43%.

Aha! I only installed the engine. Shouldn't be too long now for the ROOM PACK. ?

MIDI to follow one day soon I suppose.

Or "free" if using a prepaid serial number. Installed!

Installed!

Ya Installed!

Installed!

I bought it after the 3rd update. Works a treat with my limited knowledge at this point.

Imagine if all your plugins were actual hardware ?

Best wishes on the new digs James.

Now it's tempting to have. Still pricy, but what price for quality are you/we/I willing to spend?

Since it's offered intro price of $279 I applied to use my edu discount (30%). Here's hoping they apply that to the $279 price for further $43 discount to $195.30 . But if they say I must pay 30% off the $349 price then my price would be $244.30.

Yeah, I could see that too.

I have 8 more days to decide if I want to be a schmuck who buys it.

Installed!