JeffSouth Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Yet, it say log out as my username as if I am logged in. Also, I see nothing about where to activate other than two opions for offline activation, export and import activation request. I am afraid they are going to take the free version away by making this difficult to activate again, and I have been using the free version for a long time. How do I do a FINAL activation to keep using the free version for good or until I can afford the new Sonar? Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 Read through this thread, the answer lies within: HTH, t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 1 hour ago, JeffSouth said: How do I do a FINAL activation to keep using the free version for good You can't. You will have to Sign into your BandLab account every time the software requests it. At some point CakeWalk by BandLab will no longer re-activate. "When" you ask? Well, that's the 64 thousand dollar question, isn't it? As of yet there is no timeline for when Sonar will be released and CakeWalk will cease to function... t 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Yep exactly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 20 hours ago, JeffSouth said: Yet, it say log out as my username as if I am logged in. Also, I see nothing about where to activate other than two opions for offline activation, export and import activation request. I am afraid they are going to take the free version away by making this difficult to activate again, and I have been using the free version for a long time. How do I do a FINAL activation to keep using the free version for good or until I can afford the new Sonar? Thanks for any help. From the Help menum sign OUT of Bandlab and sign IN again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 1 hour ago, Bristol_Jonesey said: From the Help menu sign OUT of Bandlab and sign IN again Yup! This method has worked for me several times when faced with the "expiring in N days" notification. Not 100% sure, but one time I might have just signed in via the Bandlab.com sign in link from the Help Menu. I have a mental note to try that intentionally the next time I get the notification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henkejs Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 1 hour ago, Bristol_Jonesey said: From the Help menum sign OUT of Bandlab and sign IN again This is what I do when I get that message. It works fine. What I don't understand is why I'm being asked to reactivate when CbB knows I'm already signed in to Bandlab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 (edited) 3 hours ago, henkejs said: This is what I do when I get that message. It works fine. What I don't understand is why I'm being asked to reactivate when CbB knows I'm already signed in to Bandlab? As reported by many and the dozens of threads with this topic. It is the state that CbB is now in prior to it's final closing. Your choices are: Move to using Sonar via by paying a monthly Bandlab Membership fee of around $15 USD. Move to using another DAW = $$$?? or free if you don't mind basic. Move to using a version of Sonar pre Bandlab = Sucks for many because of the old bugs and missing features. Put up with the inconvenience of using CbB for the short term until Sonar is released and can be purchased. CbB is still free. Edited May 22 by John Vere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henkejs Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 37 minutes ago, John Vere said: As reported by many and the dozens of threads with this topic. It is the state that CbB is now in prior to it's final closing. Your choices are: Move to using Sonar via by paying a monthly Bandlab Membership fee of around $15 USD. Move to using another DAW = $$$?? or free if you don't mind basic. Move to using a version of Sonar pre Bandlab = Sucks for many because of the old bugs and missing features. Put up with the inconvenience of using CbB for the short term until Sonar is released and can be purchased. CbB is still free. Yes, I understand the options and am happy to still be able to use CbB while waiting for the new Sonar's terms to be sorted out. I just took this opportunity to whine about the curious strategy of requiring such frequent reactivations. What does Bandlab gain by confusing or, at minimum, annoying its users this way? I realize any answers to this question from other users are all speculative anyway. By the way, I've been a loyal customer since long before the original Sonar came out and hope to continue when the new Sonar is formally released. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 I don’t think it’s done on purpose. I think all hands are on deck and working on Sonar and some on Next. Cakewalk has been sort of left to it’s own demise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffSouth Posted May 24 Author Share Posted May 24 This nag thing only comes up every few days or so. It does stop so it appears I can just log in as I am doing without logging out first and some here say even when they do it shows up again just like mine does anyway. Looks like they will drive me away to another daw like reaper which is still free. I am elderly and on Social security. I can't afford another bill per month even at 15 dollars, that's near half my water bill, and food prices have exploded, my electric company just added on 17 dollar per month on top of all private residents, my SS is supposed to raise us each year for cost of living costs jumps. My raise this year? 21 DOLLARS. The raise in my elec bill alone takes 17 out of that, so I get an extra FOUR dollars for the raise in food prices, lol. Water used to be paid in my apartment building, no more starting last year. This is why I use Cakewalk free, so no way I can take on a new subscription. I could have sworn I read that they said the free cakewalk would keep working and they said nothing about some time limit then they would stop it. That right there would make me not want to buy Sonar. If I can't trust them to keep their word to us then that will play a role in whether I would buy Sonar as opposed to something else. On top of all that, I made a request earlier about the new Sonar. If I ever do buy another daw it will absolutely HAVE to have oversampling per channel like Reaper does. I have looked to see if anyone mentioned this being a new feature but have not heard anyone mention this. I saw a PIC somewhere of the new Sonar interface and didn't see the 2X button up top like Cakewalk, so maybe they have added it and I just haven't seen folks discussing it. But if I buy another daw, it will have to have OS per effects bin or per plugin,. I still use many old plugs like Waves and various other old stuff and now that Reaper does this, no reason at all they can't implement this in the new Sonar. Hmm, just saw Creative sauce channel because of watching him about CW and he is doing a vid about this FREE UA Luna for windows, looks very easy and similar to Cakewalk, well well, I will download it today and start learning it as a backup optik. Anyone else looked into Luna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Look at my above post. It’s simple. You have choices so no point complaining about stuff nobody here can fix. Note- Reaper is not actually free unless you choose to not participate in the concept . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 6 hours ago, JeffSouth said: If I ever do buy another daw it will absolutely HAVE to have oversampling per channel like Reaper does We have had per plug-in up sampling all the way back from 2015. It's in the effects view menu and described in the manual. Here is when it was introduced. https://noelborthwick.com/cakewalk/2015/10/24/improving-your-synth-sounds-with-real-time-upsampling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Fogle Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 @JeffSouth, sorry to be picky but Reaper is not free. Per the +++ website +++ Quote You can evaluate REAPER in full for 60 days. Quote Purchase a REAPER License There is only one version of REAPER. The license price depends on how you use it. $60 : discounted license. $225 : commercial license. You may use the discounted license if: You are an individual, and REAPER is only for your personal use, or You are an individual or business using REAPER commercially, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or You are an educational or non-profit organization. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 10 hours ago, JeffSouth said: Looks like they will drive me away to another daw like reaper which is still free. As others have already pointed out, REAPER is only free during the trial period, after that, if you use it, you're in violation of the use agreement. So your plan was/is to dump CbB because it has a login request screen "every few days or so" in favor of using REAPER in post-trial pirate mode, where the nag screen comes up every single time, and takes upward of 30 seconds before you can banish it? If you want a free option, better to cozy up to Waveform Free. I always recommend being familiar, if not fluent, with multiple DAW's anyway. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSistine Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Frankly the new re-activation time is really annoying! On my laptop I reactivated only 17 days ago and there it is again! ? I think that their "fake" reason to change the activation server caused by "technical" changes is just not true! I suspect it was more to reduce the validity to just some days! I am close to skip CbB and jump to Platinum or X3 together with Reaper! Better to skip this re-activation nag and lose some minor (for me at least) improvements (in Platinum/X3, not in Reaper)! It is sad, so sad! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenLight Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 No sticky thread for activation issues and questions yet? Please make one. It would save the world many bits and bites, and therefore be good for the environment. Please think of the squirrels! ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 It actually seems like a very small group that are complaining still. I think the majority are following along with Choices 1&2 from my list above. I really like Sonar and totally got used to the new GUI. I uninstalled CbB. I have no nag screens. It’s not very expensive for now, but still will only purchase, not continue to rent. The bonus has been getting Cakewalk Next as well. It a great little DAW for quick song ideas. Super fast to load and get going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 (edited) 1 hour ago, pwal³ said: what's your plan b? Good question and I'm pretty confident I won't need it, But I have a massive Plan B! I already have purchased Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio. I liked it enough to get it on sale dirt cheap. I also am using Pro Tools First because I have other people I sometimes work with who are Pro Fools. Bummer is the inability to use some of my favourite Plug ins. I don't think I would ever pay for the full version. Out of my league. I can also upgrade my Cubase Elements 7 for around $250. I prefer Cubase over Studio one for midi editing. I tested all of them and those were my short list. I can never get my head around Reaper so off my list. I like Harrison Mixbus but like many, it's weak at Midi editing. I tried the newest versions demo and I own Version 4. I have various older version of Sonar that I could use if I needed to open older projects. I would never return to actually recording with them. Seems stupid to step back 10 years. I am in the process of backing everything up to Midi and Wave stem files so all my important stuff is future proof. I've finished and published all my originals up to date. I don't have anything that is unfinished other than a few song ideas that were obviously bad song ideas! Then I have hundreds of backing track projects that are 100% midi so they already open and play in all other DAW's. I'm not dependant on things like the Pro Channel. I generally don't use many plug ins so swapping over is not as complicated for me as it would be for those crazy guys with 700 plug ins on a project. I also own 2 digital multi track recorders one which can do Midi sync as well as a bunch of Hardware. I could almost stay out of the box. I have a neighbour who owned a small studio back in the 80's and has a bunch of old semi pro studio Reel To Reel 2 tracks and I think even a 16 track 1/2" he offered I could borrow. But I can't afford the Tape and I lost my razor blades and white lead in tape. So I'm not overly concerned about what Bandlab does. I would like to carry on with Sonar and feel that is all that will happen and it will be business as usual COMING SOON I HOPE! June 6th is fast approaching! Geez. Edited May 25 by John Vere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 6 hours ago, GreenLight said: No sticky thread for activation issues and questions yet? Please make one It wouldn't matter. They already don't read the 394 other threads about it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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