Is Sonar Free Tier limited only for a month?

[Tomoko Mikami]

I migrated to Sonar from Cakewalk by Bandlab. I would like to use Free Tier so pressed "evaluate" instead of getting a membership subscription. 
Now, [about Sonar] says it expires after a month.

Do I need to get a subscription after this date or do I get to keep updating the evaluation mode?

[Jonathan Sasor]

28 minutes ago, Tomoko Mikami said:

I migrated to Sonar from Cakewalk by Bandlab. I would like to use Free Tier so pressed "evaluate" instead of getting a membership subscription. 
Now, [about Sonar] says it expires after a month.

Do I need to get a subscription after this date or do I get to keep updating the evaluation mode?

This is just referring to when the app needs to refresh its lease. If you're online, it'll just automatically get this and you can keep working at the free tier, no issue. 

[Amberwolf]

4 minutes ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

This is just referring to when the app needs to refresh its lease. If you're online, it'll just automatically get this and you can keep working at the free tier, no issue. 

 

Perhaps the notification within the software could be clarified to explain this to users so you and any support personnel at bandlab don't have to keep answering this over and over and over and over and over.....  

 

 

[Jonathan Sasor]

1 minute ago, Amberwolf said:

 

Perhaps the notification within the software could be clarified to explain this to users so you and any support personnel at bandlab don't have to keep answering this over and over and over and over and over.....  

 

 

The phrasing was updated for build 48 that dropped on Friday. It now says "Activation Refreshes on: [date]"

[Tomoko Mikami]

@Jonathan Sasor Thank you for clarification! Now I'm relieved!

@Amberwolf I'm sorry that you had to see my question again. I searched the forum first for the situation but could not find it. 

[Amberwolf]

12 minutes ago, Tomoko Mikami said:

 I'm sorry that you had to see my question again. I searched the forum first for the situation but could not find it. 

No need to apologize--it wasnt' directed at anyone, it is simply a fact that this kind of question is going to be asked dozens, probalby hundreds or thousands of times. 

Also, there will be even more people that don't ask because they do find the answer in an existing thread, but shouldn't have had to come find it because the software itself should have clarified it for them in it's own message.

I'd like to help prevent the wasting of time of support / dev personnel on it, when there are many more important things they could be doing.

 

(FWIW, if a common message to a user of any device, software, etc., requires clarification, it is a poor message--even if it is accurate, if it is not complete it is insufficient and should be replaced with one that does not.       You wouldn't want a traffic sign that makes STOP unclear, for instance....    

[Amberwolf]

21 minutes ago, Jonathan Sasor said:

The phrasing was updated for build 48 that dropped on Friday. It now says "Activation Refreshes on: [date]"

That sounds much easier for the average user to understand.  

[John Vere]

While we are on a roll could you please change the default Workspace to “None” so we don’t have to tell new users over, and over, and over that this is why half of the options are missing from view. Thanks.