X2: Clickfest with all the menus - please bring buttons back!

Set up key bindings..then you can dedicate what ever button you want.

The mental illness of de-cluttering has run rampent in the X series.

One person's clutter is another's well thought through lay-out of tools.

One click buttons, reflecting state, are much superior to menus.

Menus, menus everwhere, and not a drop of reason.

I find the command-ribbon to be way cluttered with crap I never use. Which is the definition of clutter.  8.5.3 provides the true ability to declutter with completely configurable menus and button-bars.

And other stupid stuff: 
screen sets: 
    importing from other projects is stupid: should be global presets
    change the meter displays, but no presets for meters
         But there are presets for gadgets.
              Yet there are more possible choices for meters.

Hidden menus:   
   lanes
      no indication of more than one take lane in track
      take lane menu-toggle not available until track expanded:  ANOTHER MENU  ANOTHER CLICK

Menu on staff view:  absolutely the stupidest example of declutter over powerful ease-of-use.

The X series requires users to give more attention to the interface.  Not what an interface is supposed to do.

Learning key commands is useful. But key commands most often do not provide quick information about the state of functions.

If the user has to repeatedly waste time looking away from the work to read labels on  menu headers, and then click the headers to choose items that should have been icon-buttons with symbols and color, the GUI has failed.

The X series FUI is a big step to the rear for power use.

  Just to clarify cyberzip, I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm just thinking that maybe more people agree with the X1,X2 way, and that's why Cakewalk made it so.

Hi guys!

Some good ideas in here. Did you all report them to Cakewalk?

I prefer the look of X-series but did like that 8.5 was configurable so that I could remove the buttons I did not use. But as stevec writes, the experience for a new user was terrible.

I agree with the following, FWIW:

screen sets: 
    importing from other projects is stupid: should be global presets

Menu on staff view:  absolutely the stupidest example of declutter over powerful ease-of-use

One of things I really want in the next "X" series is a customizable Control Bar module.

Best Regards
Ludvig

To this day, I still click on the Insert Menu every sodding time I want to Insert a tempo change.

I can just imagine the staff meeting that decided that: "Hey guys, Strummy wants to INSERT a tempo change, let's take that function out of the INSERT menu and, for no reason whatsoever, put in the PROJECT Menu; but just to really wind him up, when he does eventually find it, we'll still name it INSERT Tempo Change"
 
Absolutely pointless.
 
Arrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
 

And it took me 1.83672653 years to stop hitting F11 every sodding time I wanted to insert a marker.


Apart from that, I lurve X1, and now X2.

The thing about 8.5 and all previous versions was, the end user had the option to have as many or as few buttons as he wanted in the tool bar. It was 100% customizable and it was only cluttered by your own doing. I'm not really seeing how the X Series has improved upon this. It's never good to take away functionality, especially when it's been part of your software from day 1.

I think the popularity of Panup's mod speaks volumes over this blunder ... and a few others that he fixed.

I still can't believe they took the 'Phase' and 'Interleave' button off the tracks.

I have made a mod that copies Insert commands from Project menu to Insert menu. It's included in my utility if you're interested...