First post, by koitsu
Roland just announced that they're FINALLY offering lifetime keys for some of the plugins in their cloud service. This includes SCVA, which now appears to be $69, down from $125 a month ago.
Their cloud support tells me that the only differences between the two versions is that activation and authentication are through their Cloud Manager app instead of the one-time auth that used to be used. And possibly "a few other minor changes related to UI smoothing."
I haven't installed Cloud Manager, but if it operates like Korg's new "Software Pass," it should be pretty innocuous.
That's all. Now back to kicking myself for buying SCVA a month too early...