mattox82 Is wright, its more about finding what you like and what works and keeping it simple / less confused like with ableton effects rack, now i can have my favourite setting at a glance tied to act, a bit like ableton live effects rack ties to my Apc40 controller, so now in X1 i can have a more spontanious live feel going on also, for those moments of inspiration and ideas when combined with a second controller set up for the bussing, in my case a novation Remote zero with 16 channel and 8 fx busses, their is no other possible way to come up with new routing ideas in such a simple way, so it makes sense  these new effects racks in X1 even if they may not be quite as advanced as some other Daw racks, Expanded rack still opens up some great potential, i nearly quit on X1, But the new direction may just save it, Providing Cakewalk are going to start listening to some valid users ideas or improvements that will make a difference as Sonar Changes.Many other daws may lead the way with some things, but Sonar has its own Leading technology too, no matter how Frustrated i have been with sonar over the years, For example how can one do with out the inline piano roll and combined piano rolls option which is so valuable!!!!!!!!!!!, so ending it on this note again Providing Cakewalk are going to start listening to some valid users ideas or improvements that will make a difference as Sonar Changes.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
]

X1E is not X1C. Once you install X1E you no longer have X1C on your system since the X1C files are replaced. X1e is a brand new product with thousands of hours of development invested and very significant changes to the prochannel and effects management areas as well as the typical tweaks and optimizations/enhancements that we do in every major release.

As such its it surprising that some issues that may have existed earlier are resolved. For one they may simply not apply anymore due to the nature of the code changes. They were very significant in some areas.

stratman70

backwoods


 None of the other customers attacked me for my choice not to buy today. The store keeper wished me good day and said see you soon. He wasn't offended that nothing tickled my fancy today, he's a good Greengrocer, he knows I'll be back. 


Some of the guys around here are like people at the greengrocers who don't buy anything but stand around all day and point out ad nauseam how pitiful the shop is compared to the one down the road that opened in2004.

Yes- there are quite a few of those-2 in this thread alone. To be able to chain FX and have instant control of 6 parameters instantly is a bad thing? It's just window dressing? Bull S**t .friggin' cry babies will never stop and let some of us enjoy the product we choose to use. Personally I think that sucks and it's always the same folks. Inconsiderate to the max.
 

cryophonik


Is it just me, or do the custom knobs on the FXC2.0 GUI not follow the settings when you change the knob on the plugin itself?  For example, say I create a custom knob on the FXC interface and assign it to a VST's filter's cutoff.  The custom knob controls the cutoff perfectly; however, if I open the filter itself and change the cutoff, the custom knob does not follow the settings.  Anybody else seeing this?

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
]

That is the intended behavior. In the future if we expand the feature to do multiparam control it wouldn't make sense to follow the effect UI since a knob may be associated with multiple params for different fx.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
]

No ;-)

daryl1968


Jonbouy - go for the upgrade mate. If it's the money thing that's stopping you, we'll have a whip round.

FastBikerBoy

ba_midi

FastBikerBoy


Billy is also reporting better experiences with expanded so perhaps there is something in it. Who knows with software though, you've only got to look at the vastly different experiences of users since X1's release to be completely confused.

Mike and Karl,

  I can continue to report that X1C-Exp is doing extremely well so far, for me.   Frankly I'm quite pleased.  I, too, would love to know what went into "Expanded" that might have solved whatever it was that prevented my main system from getting along with X1 -- but the result is certainly more important at the moment.

  Once again I spent the entire day and night yesterday (well mostly) working in X1.   I was using many different synths, doing many different FX, lots of editing, bouncing, etc, etc.   IOW - I was trying to exercise X1 as if I was working on a serious and "gotta have it now" project. 

Other than the 2 incidents of crashing I mentioned elsewhere -- neither of which are of any real concern to me at this point -- X1C-Exp performed very well.

As many know, I have been critical of both Cakewalk and X1 due to the fact I had mostly headaches trying to use X1 on my very stable system from the day it was released and forward.   But I'm not a Cake basher by any stretch of the imagination (as one or two users on this forum have suggested I am).

So it is important to also be supportive and acknowledge when things are working well.   And I am doing so, willingly.

As I said elsewhere recently on the forum -- I was actually having fun working in X1.

And - also again - there are things I don't like or wish were implemented differently, but that does not negate nor diminish the features and functions that are strong / powerful in X1.

It's nice to be able to finally use it as part of my musical arsenal of tools.

And, just to be sure we're still on topic (lol) -- FX Chains 2.0 is definitely a solid, fun, and very useful update!

It's good to see you around the forum again Billy. Always a sane voice among much of the madness & bickering, of which I've been guilty too. I hope X1 carries on working well for you. Computers and software are certainly fickle, head scratching inducing devices sometimes.