Really odd questions to help me decide to get X3

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Yes there are 37 scripts included
6. Yes
7. The choice is yours. Wisdom doesn't come into it.
8. Not yet. Typically not till the last planned update has been released. X3c is already on the drawing board and we expect release before end of year. Your guess is as good as mine.

Looks like I will be buying Sonar X3 Studio. A trail/demo would have been great and may have pushed me to buy the Producer.
 
Thanks for answering my questions. And glad they were yeses!

Vas,
 
I see that you also use Cubase 7. Many of the basic tasks that you do there are very similar in Sonar X3 just in a different place. For example, when you click on a wave clip in Cubase, it will open up the wave editor window. In X3 the same click will open the Loop creation/editor window. At first this may seem like X3 is missing that clip editor function but in reality, the track view workspace of X3 allows you constant access to edit clips ( split, fade, cut, delete, ect  ) in real time without having to open up any additional windows...simply enlarge the track window and your there.
 
The workflow is very similar and you will be up and running in no time. If you like the track effects in Cubase, your going to love the Pro Channel in the Producer version of x3. Intuitive, graphically useful, and crazy powerful! The new pop out RTA graph inside/behind the EQ window is worth the price of admission alone. Its like having the Cubase version of Voxendo built right into the plug without having to open up anything....fast and sounds killer!!
 
Try it...give your self time to adjust to the differences...and you wont regret it.

Danny Danzi

mudgel
5. Yes but there are only about 8 scripts included

Mike, there may be something you may have forgotten to install or something. I see 37 in my X3/CAL Scripts folder....42 total counting my 5 custom ones that I pasted after the X3 install. Actually, I just checked Sonar X1 through to X3 and they all have 37 in them by default in each folder. Try another install and make sure you use advance install followed by "custom install". Then make sure you have CAL files selected and you should get all 37. -Danny

Yeh a typo on my part Danny, thanks for letting me know. I've actually got 38 in my current folder, out of the many I have . There must be an extra one I have, as I don't use the Cakewalk default folder. I've gone back to edit the post.

I actually have quite a large collection of a Cal scripts that I've scrounged up over the years of using Cakewalk software.

I am however very disappointed that Cakewalk disallows the touch screen function with Windows 7 forcing one to get Windows 8. This is the sticking point for the final decision.

 
Just remember that Windows 7 wasn't optimized to work with touch, whereas with Win 8, touch functionality was at the forefront of design criteria.

Heres a link to a source I just googled

http://www.hexachord.net/cakewalk-cal/


http://www.softpedia.com/...itors/CAL-Editor.shtml

http://anythingpeaceful.org/sonar/cal.html