Are there any professional (full-time musician/no part-time day gig) users using X1?

and digging it?  ...not interested in any responses from the Cakewalk folks on this one. 

Yes. I run a production dept. for 7 radio stations and SONAR has been our main software since version 1 way back 10 years ago. There are three suites all using it daily. Version X1 took a little getting used to, but my two other producing partners are really liking it, especially the smart tool functions.  Our only gripe is that corporate will not upgrade us to 64 bit Win 7. We do also use Adobe Audition, but that is more for wave editing. I would say our ratio is 90% Sonar 10% Adobe Audition.

On a side note we are also using Benstat's Sonar Helper utility as well.

Yes! And loving it.

Hmm. I do three things for a living, which are design consultancy, journalism, and audio production. So I don't know whether that disqualifies me from your "No part time" caveat. It's certainly not the case where one of those tings pays for the other two as hobbies; they're all roughly equivalent chunks of my income.

In any case, yes, am doing lots of professional audio work in X1 and finding it generally excellent.

Sacalait,

Are you going to buy it now?

I havent had a real gig in years.. did alot of demo work when i lived in L.A. I still play and do stuff for people all the time. but its never Sonar. Its mostly PT, Logic, even FL and Reason.. it doesnt mean anything, you stick with the DAW you know best..and i have encountered the same issues in them all.. but .. all my musician friends say Sonar is a mutha..personally my studio is set up strictly for writing and arranging..my wife doesnt allow (beats) in the house. you have to be an actual musician to get in here..she would throw Clive Davis out in a heartbeat.. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY YAWW!

Full time audio post and music producer for over twenty five years now.  Using 8.5 for post pro and X1 for music production.  A never endin wrasslin match.

I am 59 years old. Gee, a fossil.

 
Us fossils be good folk! I'll be 60 in January... are you from Macon or do you just live there. My dad grew up in Macon near the mounds, they used to play on them. They had a cable that they tied to a tree on top of one and to one at the bottom. They would use a pulley from a well with a piece of rope tied to it to ride the cable dow to the bottomhe will be 94 in August and was raised by his mon and his great grandpa, Grandpa Chapman, a Confederate veteran. My dad's dad was killed working n the RR when my dad was a baby and both his grand dads were also already dead... it is funny being that close to the past.. to my dad the Republican party is the party of Lincoln and he has no use for them still... probably because of the influence of Grandpa Chapman.) Well, us fossils can ramble on and get off topic in a hurry.
 
I grew up in Moultrie and now live in NW GA. There are some good folk in Macon, I reckon you are one of them.
 
J

Users are reporting on these forums that Sonar X1 Pro Channel randomly shuts itself off from time to time, or will not activate - causing them to recreate busses as a work around.

You pros who use it all day, every day....is this happening to you?

Users are reporting on these forums that Sonar X1 Pro Channel randomly shuts itself off from time to time, or will not activate

yeah i've been getting that happen to me !!!

Only had it happen once and that was before 255 build!

Javier Colon uses it!

lol

I'm a pro and I've used Cakewalk products since Pro Audio 8! Use Live as well, but Sonar is my main beast and X1 is now the chosen one, although I don't use the Pro Channel for a couple of reasons. Even did some bass for a Grammy nominated album in 2008 on Sonar!

Rico

BTW, what, exactly, is the point of this thread?

every 6 months or so someone starts a thread that asks this question...

Full time composer working in the gaming industry.
Sonar XI is being used some of the time.
Sonar 8 is being used some of the time.
We use other audio apps from other companies as well as proprietry apps (game engine specific)

I come to these forums to see if Sonar XI is finally out of Beta... I have it open at present on an audio only piece and have had no issues. Envelopes are trickier than I'd like but that's not a deal breaker. 
Feels like they are slowly fixing it :)
I tend to get annoyed with XI when deep MIDI editing is involved and revert to Sonar 8 to "git'r done" swiftly with a toolset that has served me well for many years.....Hmmm; Maybe a legacy interface option would be useful for the folks who appreciate such things?

Many companies eventually have a "Vista" moment. This is Cakewalks IMO.
Most corporations tend to employ feral types to work in marketing, this is why so much product hits the marketplace prematurely... our company has to occasionally whip the buggers back into the cages as well...(we have had to isolate their department to stop them eating their children.)
This is a contributing factor to why we have so many buggy apps... every time I hit a forum and see "when?" or "Are we there yet?" posts, I shudder knowing that somewhere a marketing bod is salivating and rattling the cage ominously :)

Don't use the bundled apps at all in any daw so can't comment on pro channel.