Notification of Sale Upgrade for Product Not Used

Oldies-Radio-Guy wrote on 9/17/2020, 12:14 PM

How is is that MAGIX regularly sends email offers of pricing discounts for its Sound Forge products UPGRADES when my Windows 10 PC does not even possess the Sound Forge line of products?

An old Windows 7 PC that was scrapped two years ago did have a calendar year 2012 version of MAGIX cleaning lab; but it was never upgraded; and friends of mine told me not attempt to upgrade a 2012 version to the available release of 2018, as there were function issues when they made the jump from circa 2012 version to the 2018 version.

If MAGIX wants to sell me an upgrade to Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab, I'll first need to be in possession of a licensed copy. But, with the budget constraints I'm living with due to the Pandemic, obtaining that license will only be possible when its sale price approximates its sale price upgrade of $59.99.

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SP. wrote on 9/17/2020, 12:33 PM

You are getting upgrade offers because the old version is registered to your Magix user account. It doesn't matter if you lost your copy.

browj2 wrote on 9/17/2020, 2:39 PM

@Oldies-Radio-Guy

Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab 2 is actually a much newer version of the very old ACL. Since you have ACL, you are eligible for the upgrade price. You should take a look on Magix.com to see what SFACL does now and compare it what you have. If you don't use ACL very often, it would be hard to justify the upgrade.

Since 2012, there were a few things that happened. Magic split ACL into Audio & Music Lab (AML) and ACL. AML got all of the features but ACL was downgraded as Magix stripped out things like Spectral Cleaning. There were many complaints from users who thought that they were upgrading when they upgraded the old ACL to the new ACL, only to find that they were actually downgraded. They should have gone with the upgrade to AML.

About 2 years ago, Magix eliminated ACL and renamed AML to Sound Forge ACL. This year, SFACL 2 came out.

John CB

Oldies-Radio-Guy wrote on 9/17/2020, 4:27 PM

@browj2 . . . I got my user name changed as I'm a newbie. Thanks for the rundown of the changes, where it sounds like my holding off on the (ahem!) upgrade had some merits to it . . . as well and not considering a new version until SFACL 2 arrived. Now it's a matter to see if MAGIX will ever offer the SFACL 2 at a discounted price.

browj2 wrote on 9/17/2020, 10:05 PM

@Oldies-Radio-Guy

Do you mean a price lower than the Upgrade price?

There was a message that popped up today with a special coupon code of 20% off. I wonder if it works with the upgrade to SFACL 2.

In any event, you can download and try it out for a month for free. You just won't get all of the VST's.

John CB