Extremely happy with Sonar X2

I posted a couple of weeks ago regarding the problems I was having with X2. Many thanks to those people who replied (I recall Beepster was one of them - Gid bless yer!) This video helped me out a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac8v2YCubL4
 
I am sure a lot of people have seen this and in particular the comments but for those who havent, the main issue that was causing the problems for me was the LP plugins...once i got rid of those, everything was fine. I did remark in my previous post on whether my pc was under powered. It probably wasn't but in the meantime, I have upgraded my pc to an i7 with 16 gigs of ram and a new asus motherboard. I even did all the installation myself! It was easy! After that, the icing on the cake was geting an iilama prolite e2773hs monitor - 27inches. I still use my 19" LG monitor next to it (there are things that I like about dual monitors). But the new monitor, Ram,Motherboard/Processor has really given X2a a big boost. I am extremely happy with it. I now know which plugins to leave out in my mixing/recording.  Very satisfied...

Yes, thanks for the positive feedback.
I use X2a on a laptop from 2010 (so not actually up-to-date, i guess), and it is great for mixing, and stable (no major issues).
This almost old laptop is dedicated exclusively to Sonar, and i made a clean install of the OS (Win 7 / 64), the drivers, and Sonar (X1d + X2a).

Cactus Music


Hey thanks thanks for the positive feedback,,, after reading the thread about "Electronic Musician" you're a breath of fresh air .. carry on and have fun!! ( 
PS don't read the thread I mentioned,,, it's a huge waste of time and depressed me. Thanks for your post,, I feel better now. 

+100

Good stuff Keano! Looking forward to hear the fruits of your labour I'm the songs forum some day!

Have fun and happy tracking;)

Hi,

I´m also very happy with X2.
Sadly I have too little time for making music and working with sonar (music is just my hobby - til now), but when I work with Sonar, I discover every time new things making me very pleased with it. Sonar X2 is also running with no problems here. I think it's a really good daw and I hope Cakewalk will make it better and better.

T. Finkbeiner

"I posted a couple of weeks ago regarding the problems I was having with X2. Many thanks to those people who replied (I recall Beepster was one of them - Gid bless yer!)"

Yeah, you just have to remember not to track with look-ahead plugins (generally mastering plugs like the LP and convolution reverbs). Usually doesn't matter how fast your computer is.

Excellent and thank you. I have been becoming very disillusioned with the forum due to all the hateful squabbling lately. Taking the advice given and running with it to make things work for you is exactly what this place should be for. Happy tracking and if you stumble into any problems I'll try to help.

To everyone else... if I see willful ignorance, unwarranted personal attacks on other members, trolling or non stop hyperbolic complaints coming from a user I will not help or interact with them at all. That may not mean much to some as I'm not some ultra pro but I study this program non stop and I get better every day. It's time for this place to clean itself up and get back to what it's intended for. A peer to peer forum to help people make music using Sonar.

Seriously... the Beepster is not amused.

Sorry for the threadjack, Keano. I highly recommend you take a look at the Sonar videos at digifreq.com, the Sonar articles at sound on sound http://www.soundonsound.com/articles/Sonar.php and Fast Biker Boy's youtube page http://www.youtube.com/us...BikerBoy?feature=watch

Cheers.