The X2 Suspense Is Killing Me !

I know ...it's like waiting for a child to born 

IMSTA Festival is Sept. 22nd....so I'm thinking right about there...

bapu


Download releases seem to happen on Fridays (IIRC).

Ok..so the 21st....LOL

Also anyone else have problems downloading the free gift ?

I get a poor net connection here as it is with only 8mbps but I downloaded the strings today and I was only getting 40-55 kbps.....

If its the cakewalk servers giving this speed I will never be able to download it

Hopefully someone from CW will let us know what a minimum X2 download will be, like they promised. If the layout is like the X1 download, the basic X2 Producer will be about 5GB in two files. All the rest are the addons like DimPro, Rapture, Beatscape.... That should help quite a bit.

I am just going to download the basic X2. I got everything else installed already. When my dvd backups arive I am going to reimage my drive and do a fresh install. It is about time to do that anyway.

5 gigs is a big file to download. I don't remember x1 being that big for some reason

Norrie


Also anyone else have problems downloading the free gift ?

I get a poor net connection here as it is with only 8mbps but I downloaded the strings today and I was only getting 40-55 kbps.....

If its the cakewalk servers giving this speed I will never be able to download it

what time you DL at ? do it out of peak hours or else your provider won't be happy in the UK.. what speeds do you normally get.. doubt it's their servers as it looks like they buy space to deal with the demand.

not sure if there is a DL limit on cakes thing, you might wanna try using free download manager, that way if it's not making the most of your connection (and their servers allow it) you can get another 2+ bits of the same file going at the same time.

I just tested it on a Studio instruments I bought ages ago, works fine. I'd say try that method IF you know your connection is normally far faster.. zero g's is a nightmare as it uses odd buttons that won't allow to save the link.

@ Fog.

I get a Max of 8mbps because of the area I live in

I pay my provider extra so my connection will not drop below 5mbps and so I don't get any drop outs and it never has since I joined them

It was about 3pm I was downloading at and I did a few speed tests all showing around 8mbps but the download from the cake store was very poor :(

I even stopped the down load at one point and downloaded a 50mb file form another site and it was having no problems at all so I think it must have been the Cake servers....

15GB for everything (at least that is what is in my X1d PE d/l directory). The X1 Producer is in two files of ~5GB, then the Extended stuff was ~350MB.

Thanks, guys. First upgrade so I really don't know what to expect. I'll definitely have to take a good look at what's in the downloads when the info is available. I'll just anticipate a 15 GB dl. I'm attempting to put it out of my mind until it's here but as I'm sure we all are my mind is wandering to fanciful and meandering daydreams of X2. ;-)

I'm eagerly anticipating X2...

Living where I do it's about $30US for the disks and another $35 for shipping, so I am going to try and do this upgrade by download. May exceed the old download cap and be charged a bit more for that but it's going to  be cheaper than $65 US.

Wish they could have some streamlined X2 core download that was about 1 gig and didn't include DPro, Beatscape etc (many of us already have these on DVD)

I doubt this will be as messy as X1. But I will always d/l the new version and run parallel for a while.

Add to that Rapture, not nearly as big as DimPro though.

@ZO

Yeah am jumping straight in no need for X1 do you really think it will take much to get familarized with it ?

Surely it will just be the same but ..... BETTER !