Reply To: BandLab Membership 25% off thru Sept. 9

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jih64BANNED wrote:

It seemed it was just so much faster to achieve the simplest of things in Studio One, yes, I haven’t used Sonar since this time in 2015, but I had user SONAR/Cakewalk since Pro Audio 9 until that time. I would like to check it out again on the Desktop, but it just feels like I would be wasting time

Bottom line, the best DAW is the one you feel most comfortable with.

Right now, the DAW I feel most comfortable with is Sonar. I have an up to date license for Studio One Artist, and I plan to keep it that way unless it gets too spendy.

For the record, the news that Sonar and Next were being released with no perpetual license option really knocked the wind out of my sails. As everyone here knows, I was a big (maybe the biggest) rah-rah for Cakewalk by BandLab. If I ever was to the degree that it was annoying, I must apologize.

I’ll stand by what I said: for 6 years, BandLab didn’t pull a wrong move (not one that I remember). But good lord, once the wrong moves started, they did not fsck around. First announcing the change to payware over a year ahead of delivering the product, then delivering the product only as part of a subscription membership, then ham fisted measures to stomp out dissidence on the product forum. Ick ick ick.

Trying to force your users into subscription-only has already been established as a douche move. They must have decided that the loyal userbase they had established over the past 6 years (much longer in some cases) wasn’t important. Time will tell whether the product needed the users more than the users needed the product.

If I have 10,000 people who are willing to pay me $100 for something, it looks like someone’s offering me a million dollars to do that thing. Are there 10,000 people who would buy a $100 perpetual license for Sonar but would not buy a subscription to Sonar? I don’t know. I do know that if all I needed to do to get a million dollars was allow people to use something I had already made, I wouldn’t have to think about it very long.

Whatever. I have a saying, “the company is not your friend.”

Some people on this forum were hard done by the company that sells my favorite DAW. There’s nothing I can do but say I think it sucks and I wish it had gone differently.

-Erik
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