i miss my manual

I'm working on the SONAR X1 Power book as we speak. It will be available in February, but it can be pre-ordered now...
http://garrigus.com/?PowerBooks

Thanks!
Scott

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nice..   I remember the good old days of upgrading for $99 and having the boxed set and manual included..      this "$99 upgrade" from sonar is turning into $170 fast, for the same items that 8.5 came with..          not ****ing at you my friend,  just had to say that.  heh       

thanks for getting back to me quickly..    will you have anything on advanced fx chains or vox tracks with fx bused and panned differently?

I wonder if people would be interested in a "group buy"?

If there is enough interest, maybe we could get a printing company to print us a nice 2 sided version.  If there is enough interest, maybe the costs would be low enough for people to purchase? 

I always buy Scott's books but having the official one is nice....

Joe

daveny5

Some thoughts: Sonar hasn't really included a proper "manual" for some time.

There's an 1850 page manual for Sonar X1 in soft copy. Didn't you download it? 

We're talking about a printed manual

The PDF is good though. Interesting though I've really gotten used the the "help" function (which I hated previously)

I think the Sonar5 User's Guide (~600pp) was the last one that tried to be anything more than a collection of a few tutorials and a summary of the new features.

easyjoey


I wonder if people would be interested in a "group buy"?

If there is enough interest, maybe we could get a printing company to print us a nice 2 sided version.  If there is enough interest, maybe the costs would be low enough for people to purchase? 

I always buy Scott's books but having the official one is nice....

Joe

I'd be interested in this.  Does anyone know of a place online that would do this?  Im not even wanting a group discount, just looking for someone to print me 1.

OK, I will look into companies that can do this for us.  Maybe someone else can look into this as well and then to a price comparison.

THanks

Joe

brammer

Scott's Power 8 was 716
The new X1 one is listed at 608 (not a shot Scott, just an observation)

Yep, no problem. The new book will probably be around the same page count as the last edition. Not sure yet because I haven't finished writing it.

By the way... to everyone looking into printing out the Cakewalk manual... it's copyrighted, so I doubt you'll find a company that will do it unless you get some kind of permission from Cakewalk. Just a thought...

Scott

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Publisher of DigiFreq - free music technology newsletter. Win a free SoundTech Vocal Trainer Package, go to: http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/

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I recieved a box & manual with sonar producer 8....

My 8.5 book from sonar was well written and very concise. The paper was thick and it is still taken with me from time to time and has survived two semesters of college classes.  It's even still black! heh.  Is there anyway I could lobby that the cover of the X1 manual look like the box? Even for those who dont like the new look, it will still be easy for the eye to reconize it as X1 and not something else in the pile of sonar related books on the shelf. At least have an outer jacket with the white and blue  X1 producer logo on it.?. 

And what I meant in my earlier posts: Is it possible to include some of the more advanced but often used methods and/or techniques like recording vox to audio track1 and sending it to a verb bus, then have the verb bus panned in different ways like vox track to center  with comp, eq, etc. and VoxVerb bus to tail off to the hard right while the chorus or delay tails off to the left or even automated? Something that we can use to compare and see how far off base we are when creating or expanding ideas with awesome fx strings.   
   We can at least know if we are on the right track or if the same idea can be achieved with less steps or processes.      
 My biggest problem is finding info on learning how to record, mix, master, use fx in 5.1
  For example, have a standard vox track with a actual "leslie" effect, or delay that tapps every speaker on it's way around. In "mme mode"  you have 1/2,3/4,5/6,7/8 main outs. Do you use just the 1/2 for L/R?  Or is it better to use all the mains and use 1/2 for "center vox" and send the "tailoff fx" to 3/4, 5/6?
   
        Thanks for at least listening to our comments especially, when you're still writing the book.
It means alot to be able to consult the author of the book.  Plus, even if we have no influence at all...  We still have the "cool factor" of saying yeah.. we mentioned including that to the author..   heh
Thanks again,
Mc

Scott,  as you are now very well aware of the huge problems with sonar X1 how can you do justice with a new book when you cannot fully test what you are writing. How do you know something will do what you say it will?

I know it may sound "old fashioned" but i always prefer having a full boxed version of key software.

Install discs, full manual, etc..

Then I burn any updates, patches to a CD and add to that box for future use in case I get a new PC and need to do a full complete clean install.

Just seems more organized and tidy than accumulating 12 partial downloads and patch fixes over time.

Thanks scott but if cakewalk is doing the tech edit they will have to fix the issues first before they release of your book .