Questions About The Upgrade Process -Free Updates

[sublunar]

Hello,

I'm curious how the upgrade process works. For example, 9.5 is a free update for v9 users. Is this common? What are the typical requirements for qualifying for a "free upgrade" to subsequent versions? I tried searching for this information but came up empty. Do you get a free update if you purchase the prior version within X amount of days of new version's release? Or is there no standard method to the madness?

Here's why I ask. I'm considering buying v9 for the 9.5 update. But what I've read suggests v10 would be due around the end of the year... So I'm wondering if there's a possibility of getting v10 as a free update if I wait a little longer to upgrade. Although 9.5 is a game changer and will be awesome, I'd rather not get stuck on the first version of VST support if it meant I don't get the next version as my free update. I've lived this long without VST support, I can wait longer for an updated version. I'm currently on 8.3.

Thank you,

[RequiemMachine]

Usually, all the .x releases are free for that version (example v9 users get 9.1, 9.2 and 9.5 for free). Number releases, like 10, are paid. They typically give a free upgrade to a someone who buys the prior numbered release within a month or so of the new version.

Personally, I'm not expecting v10 until 2018....buy we really won't know when its coming until Props decides to tell us.


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[Gorgon]

Hello,

I'm curious how the upgrade process works. For example, 9.5 is a free update for v9 users. Is this common? What are the typical requirements for qualifying for a "free upgrade" to subsequent versions? I tried searching for this information but came up empty. Do you get a free update if you purchase the prior version within X amount of days of new version's release? Or is there no standard method to the madness?

Here's why I ask. I'm considering buying v9 for the 9.5 update. But what I've read suggests v10 would be due around the end of the year... So I'm wondering if there's a possibility of getting v10 as a free update if I wait a little longer to upgrade. Although 9.5 is a game changer and will be awesome, I'd rather not get stuck on the first version of VST support if it meant I don't get the next version as my free update. I've lived this long without VST support, I can wait longer for an updated version. I'm currently on 8.3.

Thank you,

Propellerhead usually offers "buy version X now, get version Y when it's released for free" a month or so before the release of version Y.

And no, you will most definitely, outside of the example just mentioned, get Version 10 for free when you're on 9.5

[QVprod]

9.5 is a big deal release. I would,'t expect Reason 10 this year. Perhaps in a bout a year or so if you're willing to wait it out. Free upgrade period is generally the day they announce it for about a month until the release.

[Oquasec]

The earliest that should come out, is late 2018. [preferably december]
Who pays for a decimal update? Is that actually a thing for some daws?

[sublunar]

Right on, thanks for the replies. Kinda what I was thinking. I reckon I'll probably dive into 9.5 when it comes out rather than try to wait it out. At this point there's not a lot else feature-wise that would convince me I need v10, but I guess we'll see. Looks like I'll just have to split the funds I was saving for May madness to go towards an upgrade and maybe a handful of choice RE's.. It's a good time to be a Reason user.

[Oquasec]

The updates matter alot more if you take rewire out of the equation.
Reason 9 puts it up there with studio one 3's workflow.

[sublunar]

Studio One is one of the only big DAWs I never tried, but the workflow is why I like Reason. I don't see how one could improve upon this. It flows just right.

[lowpryo]

if you buy 9 or 9.5 and end up being even 1 or 2 days before the "free upgrade to 10" cut-off, you're out of luck. so it's best to wait for the announcement if that's what your going for. but like everyone else has been saying, with such a huge v9.5, v10 is probably a ways away.

[scratchnsnifff]

As someone who was a victim of being too late, I had purchased 8 within 2 weeks to a month of 9 being a freebie, do it asap if it's worth it to you Haha I paid 400$ to then pay 120 i just always want to be up to date though, that's just me

[theshoemaker]

9.5 is a big deal release. I would,'t expect Reason 10 this year. Perhaps in a bout a year or so if you're willing to wait it out. Free upgrade period is generally the day they announce it for about a month until the release.

I expect 10 for Q4 ... would be on schedule like last year with 9

[Oquasec]

Got reason 5 in 2011 [when I started fiddling with it]
Got reason 8 in 2015.
Got Reason 9 last month.

So I expect 10 to be late 2018 at the earliest.

[QVprod]

9.5 is a big deal release. I would,'t expect Reason 10 this year. Perhaps in a bout a year or so if you're willing to wait it out. Free upgrade period is generally the day they announce it for about a month until the release.

I expect 10 for Q4 ... would be on schedule like last year with 9

Doubtful. While upgrades tend to span a year and a half to 2 years, a major update like 9.5 requires a bit of work as a full upgrade would. As a reference, Reason 6 came out in Sept 2011, 6.5 in April 2012, and 7 a year later in April 2013. The time distance between 8 and 9 was almost 2 years with 8.3 not being as major of an update.

It would also make little sense to have a month long beta for a free release when a paid release is around the corner.