Question? Now that Fender has bought Sonar One?

[jimmy]

So my question is simple. I'm still running Sonar One v.7. I just updated to the last free update. I notice when I look at the about page it states
User Name
Licence #
Valid Till: Future Date example 10.3.27
Does this mean the Software will quit working on the Valid Till date. I had paid full purchase price, so it should in theory continue working right?
Also, I see Fender is continuing the "Montly" purchase or the "Yearly Purchase". Isn't the yearly purchase a "perpetual" purchase and good till your computer drops dead....?
Thanks All,
-Jimmy
P.S. Is version 8 that much better that it warrants purchasing?

 

[Davey]

I'm assuming you mean Studio One rather than Sonar One!
If you have a perpetual license it will continue to work after that date but you won't get any further updates.
Version 8 is renamed Fender Studio Pro 8 and should be free to you unless I have misunderstood the rules. You can install it alongside Studio One V7. It will load V7 projects but if you save any changes it will be a V8 project and you can't open them in earlier versions.

I quite like V8. They have moved a few things around but the new additions outweigh that slight inconvenience imo.

 

[Lukas]

Sonar One

Your software won’t stop working. It’s the date when your current perpetual version expires, which means that from this date onward you won’t receive any more free updates or upgrades.

 

[jimmy]

Thank you both, yes I meant Studio One not Sonar One....
-jim

 

[TimC340]

Jimmy, what makes you think that Fender just bought PreSonus? They did so in 2021.

 

[Gary Shepherd]

We've got Five Years......

 

[Number6]

We've got Five Years......

In jail?

 

[Davey]

We've got Five Years......

... my brain hurts a lot

 

[Bruh]

I thought Sonar One was a joke he made on purpose. Too bad, that would have been funny.
I actually moved from Sonar X3 to Studio One 4 back then because of the Gibson drama. I guess a lot of people did the same.

 

[dlsmusic]

I thought Sonar One was a joke he made on purpose. Too bad, that would have been funny.
I actually moved from Sonar X3 to Studio One 4 back then because of the Gibson drama. I guess a lot of people did the same.

I did exactly the same thing, after paying for the Cakewalk lifetime update!

 

[Davey]

I moved to Cubase and then to Studio One.

And, yeah, when I saw "Sonar One" my first thought was that they have done yet another "reboot".

 

[BobF]

I thought Sonar One was a joke he made on purpose. Too bad, that would have been funny.
I actually moved from Sonar X3 to Studio One 4 back then because of the Gibson drama. I guess a lot of people did the same.

P8 thru the last release for me. IIRC, X3 was by far my favorite version. I had already been using Reaper and Studio One along side off/on. SOV2 was provided with some hardware purchase I don't remember.

 

[Janne19691]

Yeah, many former Sonar people here. I also left Sonar ship because of Gibson. At one point I almost left Studio One for Harrison Mixbus but the tools in Mixbus were not ready yet. Maybe they are now but I haven't been following the progress anymore.

 

[ptheisen]

Is this the 12-step group for Sonarholics?

I started with Pro Audio 5 30 years ago.

 

[Midiboy]

Lol...Recovering Cakewalk user here as well. I can honestly, I haven't looked back. Love where I'm at now with Studio Pro 8.

 

[TimC340]

Another one here. I still dip in to it occasionally!

 

[Stuart Welwood]

I use CW9 everyday to send a sysex file to my old Korg M1. Both still work just fine.

 

[Number6]

I use CW9 everyday to send a sysex file to my old Korg M1. Both still work just fine.

Assuming this is a one time operation.

May want to use MIDI-OX for that, I think you can use a batch file and make it a one click operation to send sysex. You can use another batch file to execute this and studio one afterwards.

MIDIOX

www.midiox.com