LOL Craig it took me a while but I had the vs 880, the 1680, the 2480 and guess what every single one came with the same fate. I like your optimism though and I hope you're the one laughing and saying "SEEEEE" lol

dahjah


LOL Craig it took me a while but I had the vs 880, the 1680, the 2480 and guess what every single one came with the same fate. I like your optimism though and I hope you're the one laughing and saying "SEEEEE" lol

Yuh buddy.
 

dahjah


  Someone should call and see if it's still available, i bet it's not. quote didn't work call sweetwater and B&H

if available means still being sold then it the answer is no ... at least in Europe. the biggest central European music store stopped selling it sometime last spring. my system was actually the last one sold here in Austria, which was a display unit that i got in May for a real good discount. hence, i'm not complaining too badly about some features not being functional ... but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want it to be fixed ... 
 

dahjah


LOL Craig it took me a while but I had the vs 880, the 1680, the 2480 and guess what every single one came with the same fate. I like your optimism though and I hope you're the one laughing and saying "SEEEEE" lol

 
 
dahjah, I owned the 880, 1680 & 2480 too, and they all had basically solid OS. So I don't see what your talking about when you say they all came with the same fate.
 
Your pessimism is quite depressing.
 
Luckily i listen to roland reps instead of spectators, otheriwise I might feel as pessimistic as you do, but I don't. I spoke to a Roland rep yesterday, and he said the VS 700,20,100 Windows 8 drivers are on the way. Cakewalk rep said they're working on fixing all the bugs they can indentify, so for me personally I see progress in  trying to get things resolved.

I agree with Craig and kday - this forum could definitely use some optimism! 

Cake has done a great job putting together a nice piece of software that's pretty stable (since X1c), got loads of cool features and is very intuitive to use. They probably re-developed most of the DAW for X1, which is a dangerous thing to do with an established software and a large user base. I once went down with a company that did likewise, but never got out of troubles following the release of the 'new' product ...

I was reluctant to go for X2, expecting similar troubles and update frequency as with X1, but it's been good from day one. In terms of control surfaces they yet have to do their homework, and I keep my fingers crossed that they will do it. Apparently no CS works any better with Sonar than the VS700 (MCU has also a long list of similar problems), and according to posts in this forum no other DAW (except evil PT) has decent CS support, so providing that will give Cake another advantage over the competition ... If usability is key, X2 is spot on. Decent CS support will add to that and I think it'll come ...

I came in late into the VS-700, don't regret it and still believe in it. There aren't many options anyway, between toy gadgets and priceless zillion dollar digital mixing desks ...

(F1 when the editor is in focus)

 
Which Editor are you referring to?

Norrie


I think Dyo was referring to the Track view in Sonar X2

I thought maybe the I/O Editor... ?

I don't remember any Console controls in it, do you. He'll answer.

Good post Dyo... I will go there also to get back some of the optimism about the fate of the 700 that I've been missing since it became a clunker since X1.

Fingers most definitely crossed.

Cheers!

PS: had a chuckle tonight at one of Anniedog's comments in the X2 threads including a chuckle at one of Seth's comments about the 'full' integration under X1. Forgotten about that thread....Fun stuff...

Ref: "The control surface also fully works with X1, including the ProChannel, etc." am I missing something? tried doing EQ lately... haha.