I'm hoping it's a purchase (with optional subscription if they want), but with tiers: - Really cheap somewhat limited version (Garageband level) - Fully featured but with minimal plugins/instruments - Fully featured 'full fat', plugins galore version. Then I can just get the middle one without breaking the bank, as I already have all my desired plugins ready to go.
1 year ago | 4
I paid $500 for the lifetime plan before Gibson fucked it up—so the way I see it, this one’s on the house.
1 year ago | 6
One time charge $200-300. Yearly, $100 but I prefer non-subscription or maybe a subscription for just updates and new CW plugins.
1 year ago | 2
Depends if it's a subscription or a purchase. I suspect it's going to be a subscription in which case less than $100 per year
1 year ago (edited) | 2
It depends if it has the features you personally are looking for, also how it measures up with the competition, features wise, ease of use wise and the overall look. Price will be Key to its success or its failure. For me, I'm guessing at a price between £80 - £150 Sterling.
1 year ago | 2
If it's a one-time fee. I would pay more. But yearly, I think less than 100.
1 year ago | 5
I've spent a fortune on Cakewalk products since about 1985. I am down to hardly doing tracks any more. Even at $10 per month it wouldn't be worth my while.
1 year ago | 5
I'm hoping for under £100 for a license but I realise that is being very optimistic - I wouldn't mind a cut down version if it wasn't too limited. I would like it to have a video track though
1 year ago | 3
Should have a discount for people that previously had all the versions of it.
1 year ago | 1
I'm a hobbyist not an actual music producer. I used cakewalk back in high-school in the 80s. I kinda gave up on music after that for awhile then we got some decent free versions and I started to get back into it. When they dropped Protools first I found Cakewalk again, this time by BandLabs. It has quite frankly been the best free to reasonably priced tool I have found for hobbyists and anyone wanting to learn, even many pros loved it. If they make over a hundred dollars or worse yet software as a service, I'm done. Maybe all together.
1 year ago | 1
It really depends on what they are offering for the money, but I'm already committed to moving on 😔
1 year ago | 1
Well considering I paid like $700 for sonar platinum and then found out a week later about cakewalk by bandlab for free and then I found that support for sonar platinum had been shut down. I don’t think I’ll ever be spending another dime on a product with sonar or cakewalk in the name.
1 year ago | 3
I need to know what features it will have and how well it will work and how much of an improvement it is over what I already have to know how much it's worth to me.
1 year ago | 3
This is where they have the potential to fall flat on their face. Hopefully they will learn from mistakes in the past, but no one likes subscription based products. Maybe £99 initial and a yearly £50 for updates, but only if you want them, not forced into it. I love cakewalk but it does have history of the people upstairs making some catastrophic decisions
1 year ago | 1
Been with Cakewalk for around 30 years now. I also purchased Sonar when it came out but considering it then became been free for quite some time, I feel I probably got my money's worth. Been thinking about this whole subscription model thing. Clearly this new version needs finance to keep it relevant, development etc. etc. A lot of people think they can just buy it and use it as is and expect updates. That's a little much IMO. So, in many ways I am OK with the subscription. However, I can't see why the company cannot give us the best of both worlds, monthly, annual and perpetual. Against the price of other perpetual licenses and considering there is not a hell of a lot of difference between DAWs I believe I would be prepared to pay several hundreds of dollars for such a license. I think it is a bit rich of Cakewalk to keep those of us who use this product spending around USD150 per year - they need to do better. Perhaps their response could be to give us loyalty pricing after the first year with discounts or a similar model. All in all, I think the monthly or yearly model they have been touting is just not enough flexibility. I'm considering Cubase but I will probably purchase monthly for a while at least to see what they are going to do. Mike, I am curious - perhaps you could make a video on all this?
10 months ago | 0
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