That worked. I guess I shouldn't change my Scarlett's latency settings while X2 is running for now. Otherwise something is immediately better for me. For some bleeding reason I used to not be able to use the High Z setting on my Focusrite 18i6. It would clip on the box and every where else. But now... and I have no idea why this happened... the High Z is functioning correctly. It's kind of weird actually but I ain't complain'. Cheers.

WHAT ABOUT THA COLORS

By the way I just went through every single preset on TH2 Producer (the light version that comes with Sonar) and it is already completely making GR5 look like a heaping pile of donkey cookies... and I actually like GR5... and hate generally HATE factory presets. I just wish I had known X2 was coming with a new amp sim earlier. I drop a hundred bucks on the GR5 upgrade. Ooof. Looking forward to dialing in some of my own sounds now. Very VERY realistic and usable. What an improvement. Okay... I'm just gushing now but that is some nice sounding software. Cheers.

Yes... I know, scook. lol ;-)

aaaaand I think I'm gonna try swapping out the instances of GR5 in my tester project with TH2. The metal presets are VERY nice. Why the heck don't the demos of TH2 sound like this? This really is light years ahead.

I have this wacky idea of blending GR and TH2 to see what happens but that's another thread for another day. Glad you found the song. Needs some work but it served its purpose. Brain much bigger now. ;-)

I had not. Thank you for the link. So I kind of got sucked into TH2 for a couple of hours (IDK... was it a couple of hours? I lost track of time). Sounds great. Sorry I didn't really dig into X2 but I have plans for it tomorrow. That little engine crash really wasn't anything. Probably more of a Focusrite ScarlettMix software issue than a Sonar issue and I seem to recall that happening in X1 anyway. Essentially I just need to remember to shut down Sonar before changing my Scarlett latency settings. No big whoop. I don't know if I can attribute the fact that my High Z setting all of a sudden works properly now that X2 is installed but it is really the only thing I have changed since it happened and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with TH2. Even before adding TH2 I was getting proper levels in X2 AND on my Scarlett's trim LEDs. Very very strange but it is an extremely good kind of strange. So to sum up... the installation of X2 was VERY quick and easy and was in fact probably the easiest audio software install I have experienced to date. It loaded and played an old project without having to do anything. It had all of my Input/Output/Device/Driver/Whatever preferences correct as soon as I opened X2 and nothing exploded while I did all this. Also I had fun. I'd call today a complete success. Now I'm hungry and sleepy so I'm gonna shut down the rig and eat some snausages. Cheers all.