I'm back!

New install from the OS all the way through, on a new HDD, all the latest drivers etc, all cloned and backed up. X1B is running smoothly except my Cakewalk Tuner is missng... and DSF Symphonic Orchestra wont install...
 
Now, shall I attempt X1C again? Do I feel like another system crash.... ?
 
Or shall I lurk and see what others say...
 
Choices choices...

For ME, X1C is about as stable as 8.5.3 was.

I only have one issue, and that's trying to open up old projects in X1C.

WB!

Fingers are crossed!  Let us know how things go with the X1C upgrade (again).

Tom

Go for it.  You've got to find out sooner or later if you're staying with Sonar, and waiting to see others' experiences won't help, because if there's one thing that screams out to me from many of the posts here in the last few weeks is that a lot of frustrations and 'Sonar is the culprit'/'no it isn't' exchanges are most likely due to the countless variables that exist with DAWS/interfaces/plugins, etc.  Yes, there are supposed to be common industry standards, etc. but it doesn't seem to me like that's always the case; complexity has confounded the market, and that leaves us users (and Cakewalk, the butt of occasional fury) chasing phantoms all too frequently.

I'm glad you got things back on stream again and it's entirely understandable that you don't ever want to go through that nightmare again, but if you've got everything double-triple backed up then there's negligible risk.

John

Do it. You could have installed X1c right after you in Stalled X1. :)

Hi Billy,  just to give you the full picture, I'm one of the biggest Sonar fans on this forum, and probably one of the longest users (Cakewalk 3.4 circa 1992). Normally I come out and defend CW like crazy. But when a highly anticipated update kills your system dead, it is not without some upset. The high maintenance is in the fact that I did not have a cloned C Drive to save my butt, but the fact that Sonar has cost me two major jobs in the last year is also not going to be ignored anymore. I am all for getting the tools that stay the sharpest, so I am finally relinquishing my loyalty to any DAW in favour of loyalty for my own survival. If there are bodies at the end, so be it :O)

LJB


Hi Billy,  just to give you the full picture, I'm one of the biggest Sonar fans on this forum, and probably one of the longest users (Cakewalk 3.4 circa 1992). Normally I come out and defend CW like crazy. But when a highly anticipated update kills your system dead, it is not without some upset. The high maintenance is in the fact that I did not have a cloned C Drive to save my butt, but the fact that Sonar has cost me two major jobs in the last year is also not going to be ignored anymore. I am all for getting the tools that stay the sharpest, so I am finally relinquishing my loyalty to any DAW in favour of loyalty for my own survival. If there are bodies at the end, so be it :O)

Oh I COMPLETELY understand.  I was a huge Sonar/CW fan as well until X1.   And, like you I've given up "loyalty" to any one DAW or company.   That was somewhat foolish anyway.   Companies are rarely loyal to users.

I've had my own struggles with X1 as you may know, so I certainly understand your feelings and frustrations.   But I do think this version of Sonar (X1) is intensely sensitive and seems to not be comfortable in some environments - unlike its competitors.  I don't know why, but the extremely wide variance of users with and without problems is somewhat revealing.

And I fully support the concept of remaining loyal to YOUR needs.   All this fanboy stuff that goes on really is somewhat adolescent;  sometimes even scary.    It's one thing to show support for a product/company but it's another thing to turn things into verbal wars and such, which tends to go on a lot on this forum.

As for X1 - you may have seen that I'm about to experiment on one of my new laptops with a fresh Windows 7 install and a brand new m-audio fast track pro audio device.   I didn't want to take anything from my main system so I'm doing everything completely "fresh" and unaltered to see how X1 works in that regard.

I do suspect it will do well.  Since it does seem to be a high maintenance / drama queen DAW, I think when it has its own "this is for you X1" environment, it will be happier if not fully happy