Another miserable session with X3d

Yeah, I know.... Everybody loves it... I'm not in that camp right now. The amount of problems I run into in real world sessions with any of the X generation releases is astounding... And I've had plenty of time and issues to practice on...

Zoom! What can I say that I have not said many times before. I spend more time wiggling around the program trying to get the zoom I need over and over as well as time spent relocating my place in the song after all these ministrations...

It's been shown over and over that there are situations where zoom (via holding the z key and performing a lasso of the intended area) does not work correctly and can easily confuse location even more...

I continue to run into more problems when bringing a pre-x sonar song into x3... This session? Trying to open lanes (another thing I still dislike intensely) on one track continually causes Sonar to crash...

Don't ask for a recipe as they are far too many and not something I could document while customers are expecting results. There are far too many...

Bad mood? Yes... California has decided to escalate the battle for freedom and now is sending out CA DOJ task forces collecting legally purchased from citizens in their homes! They arrived in force and took mine yesterday... In the middle of a difficult session with Sonar's failures....

So here I stand ready to do battle with all the users who will now tell me this is all user error and that I must read more of the help notes and conform to the new way...

New way? No way! Just things not working!

Sorry for the rant.... I'm beyond angry right now...

Keni

Sorry for your frustration.
 
What did they come collect from you?  I didn't quite understand about the CA DOJ comment - California Department of Justice?  Just curious, 
 
Bob Bone
 

I do feel for his struggles and if it is the latter that was confiscated, that has to increase the frustration exponentially.  if it is the former and he is beyond angry, guns beuing gone may not be such a bad thing .  Either way i hope he gets the take lanes thing figured out.

Keni law enforcement aside we are here for you and will do what we can to help. 

Everything Keni mentioned, except the DOJ confiscation, is documented by others as well.  This is not a Mac thing.
 
Zoom has problems - true. multiple threads on this.
 
Strange behavior when opening older projects - true.  multiple threads on this.
 
Take lanes - lots of posts on this, including from me.  This is less of a bug than it is sometimes awkward work flow.
 

robert_e_bone
Sorry for your frustration.
 
What did they come collect from you?  I didn't quite understand about the CA DOJ comment - California Department of Justice?  Just curious, 
 
Bob Bone
 

Yes Bob... That's California Departmant Of Justice Bureau Of Firearms

Keni

dubdisciple
Did they take your guns or your weed?

Bwa...ROFL!
 
 

dubdisciple
I don't get why they are collecting it if it is registered.  Sorry you are dealing with this.

In April 2013, California modified its interpretation of what is criminal and mentally stable. By these new guides they are now systematically collecting all guns as a parking ticket can be interpreted as criminal and if you've seen a Dr. And received prescribed meds for stress or other such issue, you may now be considered mentally unstable if they wish it...

California has long wished to separate from the US and it appears they have begun. They are the only state in the country doing this!

OIC...so, i'm guessing Cali is trying to do a blanket confiscation of anyone deemed "unstable" which could range from the criminally insnae to a housewife using qualudes to cope with her bratty teen?

For all the pretty little tools Xx has given me, my work has become increasingly more frustrating. Right now if they gave back all the money I have spent on Xx and assorted extras for it I would gladly go back to 8.5.3 and die soon without as much anger as I currently have.

I know that's not gonna happen so all that cash and time has been mostly a waste of my life. I did nothing I couldn't have done in 8.5.3 other than using PC plugins instead of VSTs...

I probably shouldn't be posting all this here, but as the cards get played this May be my last opportunity. I'm looking for a way out of this life and I intend to find it!

dubdisciple
OIC...so, i'm guessing Cali is trying to do a blanket confiscation of anyone deemed "unstable" which could range from the criminally insnae to a housewife using qualudes to cope with her bratty teen?

That's the scene in a nutshell... My only escape was Sonar and I'm so tired of fighting with that too...

The most simple of chores in the past.... Selecting an area to zoom to full screen has not been working correctly... And for mr more of the time than it works... Adding lanes into the equation increase dose problems by establishing different zoom laws for lanes and now I can barely get anything done with grace...

I'm sure someone is gonna chime in telling me how it works perfectly for them and I'm happy for them... I've been using Cakewalk products since they began and never had the amount of issues and problems I currently deal with using X3....

Yes, I know... Next they'll tell me that I haven't learned how to use it... I know the tools.... They are the problem!

Alright guys, not trying to be a jerk, but I can't see how this thread isn't going to turn into a politics fight.  I'm going to have to throw on the lock.

Keni, feel free to chat with others via PM/E-mail/etc if you want to discuss this matter. A word of advice from living in Massachusetts, don't talk about this particular situation anymore on a public forum. Remember, anyone can read this forum.

Keni

dubdisciple
whoa...I don't like the sound of that.  I don't know you, but I certainly don't want you to harm yourself.  By all means message me if you need someone to talk to.  Screw software.  This is life and it can suck at times ...and trust me igo through some $%@# myself...but stick it out.  Hell...move to cubase..but don't let the gubmnet and cakewalk drive you over the edge

Thanks... But I believe I am beyond help and my last refuge where I have held onto any sanity was Sonar... It is no longer helping, but now adding to the problem... And I know they are not going to change because of me... A nobody who means nothing to the world...

No one is beyond help. Do this for me lean on us let us hold you up and surround you with our collective strength.
 
Reach out and you will get us all. 
 
 

Thread got locked while I was trying to post this initially...
 
Keni, man. Why don't you just start using 8.5 again? I know it sucks being out the cash and you want to use it so you don't feel it was a waste but dude... it isn't worth the level of stress it seems to be causing you. I was getting into that mindset a while back too but didn't have any other solutions in my toolkit so I was merely going to shift over to another DAW (the really inexpensive but supposedly rock solid one that shall remain nameless).
 
If 8.5 works for you it's better to just use that, create and be happy (or as happy as possible) than eat yourself alive over something that you simply do not like.
 
And I hope you haven't viewed my posts in the past as some kind of smug knowitallism. I truly wanted to see you get what you needed out of it. If that is not possible then junk the bugger.
 
Stay safe and sane, dude. I know that feel, bro. I know that feel.

Keni,
 
Is "getting out of this life" as you put it to mean the rat race of X3 or the big "LIFE"?
 
If its the "rat race of X3" then as other have said, try going back to 8.5.3 for your customers.
 
If its LIFE then seek some counseling, please.