SX 2 to SX 3 upgrade price is unfair !!!!

[Sicklecell666]

(Hell, what am I doing here? I am a Logic / Live / Muzys user.... )

That reminds me..I'm a Orion/Live/EnergyXT user..

Me too, I'm outta here!

That residual gravity of Cubase/vst..I need therapy

[TotcProductions]

Not that I'm happy with what Steinberg done, but imagine how us poor emagic logic platinum users felt when we had bought all the logic plugins or some of them at least and still had to pay the same price to go to logic 6 pro (same version line too, not like it was version 7), as anyone with none of the instruments or for example even logic silver. It's just the way it is at the end of the day. companies don't care. and we waste out energy ranting and raving and no matter what, it's not gonna change anything. nothing was more ufair than what emapple did, really. people that had spent over a grand got the same dela that people as people that had spent $100.... these are the sx2 upgrade prices. make as much hullaballo as you want. I bet nothing changes. unfortunately.

Even worse....think of all the poor folks who were using logic on a PC and got screwed when Emagic stopped supporting windows.

Of course. I was one of those too. i got double f**ked over.

Damn dude....you have my sympathies...that really fuckin sux hard.

[Ford Prefect]

I paid £99 to upgrade from SX 1 to SX 2 and now it's
another £99 to upgrade from SX 2 to SX 3 , that means
it would cost me £198 to get from SX 1 to SX 3
but those that upgrade from SX 1 to SX 3 only pay £99 and get all the features I paid to beta test in
SX 2 for free

I see this as another poke in the eye from Steinberg
to it's loyal vanguard customers

I just don't see the logic when before they always
had different prices to upgrade from different versions .

If they charged £49 to upgrade from SX 2 to SX 3
and passed the £50 on to those upgrading from SX 1
to SX 3 so they paid £149 , they would still get
all the features of the SX 2 upgrade for half the
price previous upgraders had to pay

I am not sure now if I will upgrade @ the current price , if I wait 12 months for SX 4 I will get
the features of SX for free if Steinberg follow
through with the same upgrade pricing that they have
now

It's no wonder I gave up after SX 1 and decided Sonar was the way to go!!!:P
No dongles...no bullshit...granted the upgrades are a bit pricier, but I have more faith in a company that doesn't run me through the ringer...That's a big chunk of money I flushed down the toilet over SX1...never again...

[VitaminD]

try this sick..

http://apps.pinnaclesys.com/cdb/Steinbe ... fault.aspx

[loachm]

... most of the new features don't interest me that much, so I hope steinberg will keep up their upgrade policy and charge the same price from SX2 owners as well as from SX3 owners when they'll release SX4 next autumn ...

... and hopefully they'll implement some melodyne features as they've implemented now some features of ableton live in some aspects...

[Sicklecell666]

try this sick..

http://apps.pinnaclesys.com/cdb/Steinbe ... fault.aspx

I thought that option was removed last month

I would have gotten the upgrade over the last 3 weeks had I known this was still available..

Thanks VitaminD

[mauseoleum]

i'd also like to see some more *pro* breadnbutter fx as well as sidechaining in it.

[moldofunker]

Customers using very old versions of software are probably considered "lost customers" who have potential to continue the upgrade path, with a little motivation.

we're not here to understand company's marketing but the marketing itself must understand and please user's needs.

Customers using old versions are still users of cubase. No one it's saying that you must upgrade untill the new version have the features that you find very useful for the money you pay.

maybe the differences between sx2 and sx3 are close to the ones from sx1 and sx3. I personally use sx1, wanted to get sx2 but the freeze didn't work and that was the major feature i wanted. Anyway, i'm not an advanced user, there's a big chance to be wrong on this.

[ScarKord]

Customers using very old versions of software are probably considered "lost customers" who have potential to continue the upgrade path, with a little motivation.

Customers using old versions are still users of cubase. No one it's saying that you must upgrade until the new version have the features that you find very useful for the money you pay.

I was one of those Customers using an old version (VST32 5.1) up until a week ago.

To be honest, I didn't see any major reason to upgrade to SX as VST32 did everything I needed - or so I thought! It wasn't until I upgraded my processor a few months back that I noticed this annoying 'out of mixer channels' error appearing, which pee'd me off to say the least. (I was only running Kontakt and Battery at the time!)

I then looked at the VST32 to SX2 upgrade prices (£149) and thought, surely there must be a cheaper way to run more VSTi's concurrently ?

After looking through the Forum archives I found just what I needed... It's called Tracktion.

I've only been running it for a week, but I love it and I haven't loaded up Cubase since!

[Blank_Frank]

it's after July 20th not April. at the steinberg announcements forum.

link please, for the retarded...

http://forum.cubase.net/forum/Forum27/HTML/000047.html

3rd paragraph down. and i boobood too, it's 15th july not 20th

My SX1 to SX2 upgrade arrived 11th July, and I haven't even got around to installing it yet.

I wrote an email to Arbiter sales (Steinberg's distributors in the UK) complaining about the change in upgrade policy, and I got an automated response saying "I am on holiday for 2 weeks".

I know it's only £99, but there's a principle here - and as others have said, doesn't this encourage people to wait around for SX4 ???

[thenumber23]

I hope Steinberg releases a demo or in-store trial for SX3. That way I'll have a basis to make a purchase decision.

The Keyboard mag review for SX2 scared me off when it talked about horrible results due to simple user error.

Come to think of it, it would make sense if Steinberg charged more for the SX2 to SX3 upgrade than SX1 to SX3, because those customers are obviously more likely to actually shell out the cash. So really, as an SX1 customer I only want to pay US$49 to upgrade to SX3, whereas SX2 customers should pay US$149.

But, it's safe to assume Steinberg won't give me the materials I need to sell myself, so I'll wait for SX4 which will be the same upgrade price for me as it is for SX3 users. Steinberg encourages procrastination.

Brian

[auxbuss]

Come to think of it, it would make sense if Steinberg charged more for the SX2 to SX3 upgrade than SX1 to SX3, because those customers are obviously more likely to actually shell out the cash. So really, as an SX1 customer I only want to pay US$49 to upgrade to SX3, whereas SX2 customers should pay US$149.

But, it's safe to assume Steinberg won't give me the materials I need to sell myself, so I'll wait for SX4 which will be the same upgrade price for me as it is for SX3 users. Steinberg encourages procrastination.

A career in politics beckons - or comedy script writing. Excellent stuff.

[wgreenlee1]

When does SX3 come out?
Anyone know?

[bluedad]

After looking through the Forum archives I found just what I needed... It's called Tracktion.

[stag]

boring ,smells like crack users ,init???