Been waiting a long time for a fix.

AMEN

Gotta say: I want X1b, now, too. Even more so for other users. It may play a big role in decreasing the negative posts (thereby making this forum a nicer place again) or making some users decide whether to stick around or go with some other DAW software.

Here's hoping X1b makes X1 significantly better for many users. Cheers. :)

"X1 was rushed out too early and unfinished! They should have waited and done it right!"

"X1b is taking too long! They should release it now!"

Man where's Goldilocks when you need her.

Penguin24, seems to me you missed a tiny little bit in your often seen stereotype newsgroup argument.

Many of us paid in December. And I for one accepted to work arround the starting problems as good as possible and live with the very long update time until now for reasons I've explained in other threads. I understand Cakewalks problems and wish them all the best to get things straight.

But: while I understand that they needed these three months, I am simply not willing to wait another two or three weeks. The reason is simple: my good willing tolerance, just like that of others, isn't endless. I want to work with the fixes that were done so far, because I only find it fair to request a fully working 1.xx version out of beta stage, after this long time.

Cakewalk will have to continue to update the program anyway: audio snap, not yet fixed bugs, further development in favor of workflow and customising etc. So there's really no good reason to have us wait longer than some days now for what has been done so far.
Further weeks are not tolerable any more from my view.

On the other hand I don't understand Cakewalk's problems. Because they haven't explained to me that they have any. They've posted a great big list of problems that exist in SONAR X1a that are being fixed in X1b but that's a software  issue. 

In December I paid for a software program that to this day doesn't work. Please release X1b now so I can see if it fixes SONAR X1. 

If you needed 18 months instead of the 15 months between 8.5 and X1 then you should have taken it before release. 

LOL bapu, you edited my comment. You're something else, man. :)

I was talking a course in Adobe Illustrator tonight. They related how Illustrator 9 changed the screens around, the file format and generally screwed up user confidence. Printers in NA stopped recommending Illustrator 9 and everyone went back to 8 until Illustrator 10 shipped.

Confidence is hard to regain. I'm using 8.5.3 and looking at a demo of Cubase 6 which seems like a great product.

Adobe survived because they plugged along and fixed the bugs Cubase survived years of neglect and then a botched Cubase 5 release.

Life goes on.

i smell cake!... with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

so the natives are getting ressless are they???..tell me about it..in january they said the patch will be here in febuary..now theres only 10 days left in march..i had the attitude"take your time and get it right"..now its turned into,,why is it taking this long..i figured in the meantime they'd give us something to keep us busy like a few more videos,brandon did say almost 12 days ago there would be a new video coming out by this week..that was almost two weeks ago.?there really pushing there luck..i myself am a solid supporter of cake..i will remain to be..but this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

This WEEK?