Hi!

I used to be a dedicated user of Sonic Foundry products, but it took so long for SF to support 24 bit that I eventually gave up and moved on. When Sonic Foundry finally did upgrade Sound Forge and I tried to buy it I was told that I didn't have a legal version of 4.5, even though I had bought 4.5 on the phone directly -from- SF, and have been a legal owner of SF products since the introduction of 3, and a beta tester for all of the great SF products and plugs, including Vegas, Acid, SFX 1,2, &3; CDA, Acoustic Mirror, and some products that never saw the light of day.

But I always continued to use CDA. I was one of the original beta testers of CDA back before the product was introduced, and I continued to recommend and use it until I moved away from Windows 98, back in 1998 or 99. I still recommend it and have lamented it's loss in print ever since SF stopped supporting it.

So I have a couple of questions.

Is CDA 5 worth the investment?

Is it as good and solid as the original CDA?

Is there an upgrade path for owners of the previous version of CDA?

Thanks,

Bill