dantarbill
 
You think they are the lucky ones.  They are actually the canaries in the coal mine that drop dead before you do.

 
True - so chirp chirp...
 
Well, so far so good. Installed. Migrated old settings and moved synth & fx menus from old install. Tried running a few VSTi's  ok. Also got the ad2 adpaks down ok.
 
Scanner complained on rematrix and wanted me to disable, not sure why, but I've ignored it for now.

Bill Jackson [Cakewalk]
It isn't alienation. We're launching a lot of new systems pretty simultaneously... new store, new delivery system/installer, new authorization scheme, etc. Dipping our toe in the water is for your benefit. We're being rather thorough, but if the unlikely scenario where something goes terribly wrong occurs, we'll be able better manage/repair it with 20 new customers vs a million. It's not exactly a "test launch" - but it's helping us be confident before releasing to the whole world. I hope you understand.

 
Hmm, that was probably just hyperbole, but in another thread just today I was wondering how CW can stay in business with charging only $150 per customer. If it's anywhere near 1 million customers, well then we know how...

[sheepish] Please definitely and absolutely ignore the bit about the 12 months starting when I download it  [/sheepish]

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
Clear your cache. That shouldn't be. Otherwise you might have an account issue. Is SONAR X3 Producer listed in your products?

Andrew wins the 1st annual "Michael's fave Cake employee of the Day" award. It's a ham, but you gotta come to Seattle to claim it. I aint' shippin' no ham across the country!

Just installed Sonar Platinum.
 
The download/installation was so much faster/easier than previous versions.  Downloaded and installed in a fraction of the time X3 took.
 
I had to change the default path for my Project Files in Preferences, but everything else seems to have migrated successfully.
 
Just loaded an X3 project to play around with, and everything is behaving well.
 
I will post back when I have had a time to try it out more.
 
Out of interest, I noticed there seem to be more Gibson instruments in the Track Icon folders..  

Just installed platinum and I get "parse error" with kontakt projects, tried new clean project and loaded kontakt with an instrument and got same "parse error" messages...
The instrument is in kontakt is workingand but error messages are very annoying, have to click thru many of them... This never happened in x3

I made a thread about it so hopefully someone can help out

jb101
 
Out of interest, I noticed there seem to be more Gibson instruments in the Track Icon folders..  

Let's hope the strats and teles don't magically disappear...

Just got the invite a few hours ago, I haven't had a chance to do much more than load some X3 projects, but everything has opened fine and played. The download and install was painless, about 10 minutes for everything.  I haven't installed AD2 yet (I already have the full AD2) but need to grab the adpaks, etc, as soon as I figure out which ones I want, and I already had most of the rest installed from X3.
 
Dan
 
 

Larry... I love you man but you've grown very psychotic lately... spewing venom is neither healthy nor  productive.  Hope things get better for your spirit.  Really.

This I will allow. 

stratman70

Greeny
I wish I was one of the lucky ones, I dont see why some customers can buy today and some can't is my money different?

It seems like longevity factors into it. And I don't see a problem with that.
 
Maybe CW feels the long time users (and upgraders) would be better to test the system with. Or maybe parts a perk for upgrading 20+ times.
I have no inside info, just my thoughts on the post and situation.

Maybe, but Ive been a customer since  12 tone systems DOS days and purchased almost every version and didn't receive an invite.
No big deal, I have a pre-order in for the release on the 21st.

Been out in my cottage studio downloading for the past half hour... at 36%... you think having four housemates/urban farmers all streaming netflix or whatever at the same time has anything to do with it?         (BTW, not a serious question)
 
ok... 32 minutes later, up to 67%... boy, it's Friday night... doesn't anyone go out anymore.... hope the movies are awesome! 
 
Oh well, they do wonders for my mortgage!
 
And I like the latest video playback system built into the command center!
 
I assume I skip Melodyne Essential as I have upgraded to Editor...

Filed a report 153845 on the REmatrix scanning problem.

Having installed New Sonar Platinum a few hours ago, all I can say after messing about with it for much longer than I intended (it's 4am here....) things look pretty good so far. Download was straightforward, not as fast as some here are saying but that might be because our ADSL bandwidths are different, or because we're on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Or jsut because. In any case it seemed to pretty much max out the ADSL bandwidth most of the time. Once downloaded the actual install was much faster than the old "click on the installer then go on holiday while it unpacks everything" system.

Third party plugins I've tried (some Waves, Overloud, Jamstix very briefly just to check it loaded) seem to be working as intended. The new control bar is much more like how it should always have been, Rematrix sounds very good. I'd actually have bought the upgrade just to get those two things plus the changes to the sends gui.

Haven't hit it with a big project or really done much besides load up a few stereo tracks I'm giving the finishing/mastering touch to though. Only downside so far is that the CCC thing hasn't picked up that I already had Dim Pro installed and a custom installation can't be customised enough. No option to choose individual plugins, only "suites" of them which means I've had to install quite a few I'm unlikely to ever use just to get the ones I do use.