moving from X2 to X3

Hey guys, here's my dilema. I am currently using the latest version of X2 with very good results overall. A crash every now and then, but nothing serious. I have already purchased X3, but am hesitant to install until I finish an important project that I am about to finish. I am especially concerned about my UAD plug-ins working. Currently, I have virtually no issues at all with any of my UAD plug-ins. They are vital to me and don't want to compromise without them - no matter how good everyone thinks their ProChannel stuff is - some of it is not as good as the UAD stuff and many of my current projects use them extensively. If I install X3 can I go back and use X2 as it is now if X3 doesn't work as it should? Seems like when I moved from Producer 8.5 to X2 that was the case. I could go back and work on projects created in 8.5 without issues. Obviously, projects I created in X2 wouldn't open correctly in 8.5, but that didn't matter, as there was no reason to do that. I really want to move on to X3 and take advantage of all the cool new stuff, but not at the expense of having crashes, etc. and not having my UAD plug-ins work correctly.

I just upgraded from X2 to X3. Boy was that a process! Anyway, I am exploring X3 but the only editing or recording I am doing is in X2 until I am confident in X3.

easyjoey
I just upgraded from X2 to X3. Boy was that a process! Anyway, I am exploring X3 but the only editing or recording I am doing is in X2 until I am confident in X3.

 In what way?  Is it the installation?
 

The upgrade to X3 Pro for me went very smoothly. Smoother than the last 2 versions.  

John
The upgrade to X3 Pro for me went very smoothly. Smoother than the last 2 versions.  

+1, My X3 upgrade was very smooth as well, and even "jumping right in" to using it was noticeably more stable.
 

My point is you don't know what's gonna happen really. Some people have good experiences and some people have bad. This is all down to their environment. You don't have the same environment as everybody else, so I suggest waiting till your project is done if it is critical and then go for it.

CakeAlexS
 > In what way?  Is it the installation?
 
Well backing up all the partitions... then...
 
The decompacting of the installation files (whatever you do don't run them offline!) takes time, the installation and registration of other plugins away from cakewalk, the rearrangement of plugins, the removal of old plugins, the rescanning of plugin, the troubleshooting of conflicting drivers or plugins (I had that), and cleaning up and defragging.
 
No complaints, just the way it is when you have a major update... but I wish they would have an online store to install this automatically (providing they gave us access to the install setup applications).

So you do a clean install of Sonar and remove all traces of X2?  I just add it to my other versions of Sonar.  I think I still have S7 on this machine. The program itself doesn't use a lot of space. 

My install of X3 was painless. If you keep X2 then just do the custom install and uncheck any of the features in X3 that you already have in X2. BE AWARE! If you ever uninstall X2 you will murder X3 in the process because it will be looking for the plug you had in X2. I did my install this way and it was a matter of minutes I was using X3.