Cakewalk (Sonar)membership ltd time offer, 99 USD / year

[Pragi]

https://www.bandlab.com/membership

Edited 5 hours ago by Pragi

[Dave Maffris]

Still pondering if I wish to sign up for the subscription...long time Cakewalk users, any feedback? I've used since 1995, just not sure I wannt go the subscription route (again), as I have with a few companies (Izotope, for example). Tried to switch to Studio One years ago, just couldn't make it work like I wanted it to. Still would consider it, but I'm so old I find change very hard.

So is this new version worth the cost of membership? What say you!.

[Pragi]

I'm conflicted about this:

-on the one hand, Bandlab provided me (us) with Cakewalk by Bandlab for free for around 5 years and updated it;

-has Bandlab (not Gibson);  deserved it in the sense that I give something back because I saved a lot of money during that time.

-Sonar is simply my main DAW.

-Bandlab doesn't just offer the DAW;

on the other hand :

-I don't like subscription models;

I'm not interested in the Bandlab community;

I'm not interested in their other services like distribution; and I don't like to put everything like marketing, DAW, and advertising in one hand.

It's good that you ask me what I think about it so that I had to write my thoughts down.

My decision:
I will buy the Sonar subscription for one year, not knowing if the new Sonar is a big step forward in development.

Edited 3 hours ago by Pragi

[DamienF]

Wilmar International which is behind Banlab, is one of the world leader of palm oil, the main cause of deforestation in Asia ; so I'm ok to use Cakewalk for free, but I don't want to give any money to this company

[Pragi]

With this justification, nearly  all products worldwide could be devalued. Bandlab itself doesn't cut any trees, right?

[Lee D]

It would be nice to get a permanent license out of the subscription.  Or to have an option to buy Sonar.

[Brian Walton]

3 hours ago, Dave Maffris said:

Still pondering if I wish to sign up for the subscription...long time Cakewalk users, any feedback? I've used since 1995, just not sure I wannt go the subscription route (again), as I have with a few companies (Izotope, for example). Tried to switch to Studio One years ago, just couldn't make it work like I wanted it to. Still would consider it, but I'm so old I find change very hard.

So is this new version worth the cost of membership? What say you!.

Seems a risk to backwards compatibility if I moved to the newest version if you stop the sub and need to move back to Cakewak, not sure if they released any guarantees on that.

[Michael Docy]

1 hour ago, Lee D said:

It would be nice to get a permanent license out of the subscription.  Or to have an option to buy Sonar.

Does it stop working after one year if you don't renew?

 

[Lee D]

14 minutes ago, Michael Docy said:

Does it stop working after one year if you don't renew?

 

That's my understanding, someone correct me if I'm wrong

[mettelus]

14 minutes ago, Michael Docy said:

Does it stop working after one year if you don't renew?

 

Is reverts to demo mode, so you lose the ability to save any changes without renewing the subscription.