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You Can See How People Might Think Avid Could Make Pro Tools Subscription Only in the Future

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Q – If I crossgrade to a rental plan will I need to surrender my perpetual license?Ī – Yes, crossgrades from Perpetual to Subscription will require you to surrender the current perpetual license you have. For example – If your Perpetual Plan expires in September 2019 and you chose to purchase 6 Renewals BEFORE Jthen your new expiration date will be September 2025. You can buy as many renewal plans and that will be added to your current plan. Q – Is there a limit on how many renewals I can purchase on my active Perpetual plan?Ī – There are no limit. Q – Will Avid change pricing on ?Ī – Yes, pricing will be the same for our customers via the Avid webstore as through the reseller channel. Q – If my Subscription expires after July 1, 2019, can it be renewed beforehand at the older price?Ī – Customers who purchased subscriptions prior to Jcan continue to renew their subscriptions at the original (current) price. This means that you can renew your plan before Jat the current price. This will simply extend the end of your current plan another year.

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Q – Will Avid still support Perpetual reinstatement programs?Ī – Avid will continue to offer reinstatements Q – If my Support Contract on my Perpetual license expires after July 1, 2019, can it be removed beforehand at the older price?Ī – Yes, you can renew the upgrade and support plan on your perpetual license prior to its expiration date. Q – Will Avid still support dongles?Ī – Yes, Avid will support dongles and iLok for managing their licenses. In addition, Avid will continue to offer perpetual renewal programs for all products. However, going forward the preferred pricing model will be subscription-based pricing, because this is the direction of the entire industry and the way people would prefer to license software. The post featured an FAQ which read: Q – Will Avid still offer BOTH perpetual and subscription offerings?Ī – We will continue to offer perpetual pricing as an option. However, the biggest reason why lots of people in the music industry right now are thinking that Avid will phase out perpetual licenses for Pro Tools is actually a post by those operating Avid’s Facebook page who first posted the recent price increase.Īlthough this post has now been deleted off their Facebook page, allegedly due to bad PR from people on Facebook, the notice was copied on multiple reputable websites prior, such as here, here and here. This is the first hint that they might be trying to phase out the perpetual license by hiding it on their website. Hints that Pro Tools Might be Moving to Subscription Only If you want updates though, you’ll have to be on a “support plan” which is really a subscription anyway but we’ll talk more about that later. Instead, it’s hidden down the bottom of the page under ‘looking for perceptual license, click here. For Pro Tools Ultimate, it’s not one of the main options when you click on Buy Now. If you want to grab a perpetual license of Pro Tools, meaning you own it for life, at the time of writing this article you can grab that from the avid website.

Will Pro Tools become Subscription Only?Īt the time of this article, August, 2019, Pro Tools is not subscription only but recent events hint that Avid may one day decide to make Pro Tools Subscription Only or may make it less ideal to buy a perceptual license than it is right now. Avid want to force you to keep paying for Pro Tools. So my suspicion from a year ago was correct.

#HOW TO SURRENDER LISCENCE FOR PRO TOOLS 12.6 UPDATE#

Otherwise, you’re basically hoping that an OS update or OS security patch won’t stop your older version of Pro Tools from working. So to get updates, even if you’re not on a monthly subscription and have a perpetual license, you’re effectively going to have to be on a yearly subscription in order to be eligible/able to purchase an annual renewal/update. You can still buy a reinstatement plan from some stores but once stores run out of stock of reinstatement plans, they can’t order any more so eventually, they’ll all be gone. Avid have discontinued their reinstatement plan, meaning you can’t pay to update Pro Tools later. Even if you buy a perceptual license of Pro Tools, in order to get updates, you’ll now have to be on a support plan.

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