Good Bye.

FYI  Cubase 7 is to be released Dec 5th. I looked at the features plus yamaha's new production io ethernet based and expandable console console integration and Daw control . if it works as advertised it will blow everything that exists now away.This even has a special ASIO guard to prevent dropouts. I think I will be moving on. No offence to CW or current users. I was  there once was. But no one is listening any more to the users just too many bugs still in X2. It can do all kinds of fancy looping, virtual instruments but cannot track a simple 24 track session without multiple cracks pops latency and dropouts .. My time and my clients time are far too valuable to wait for X 20. It really will take that long until someone gets it and fixes the code from the ground up.I See other loyal cake walkers sniffing out other Daw sites so I am afraid I am not the only one. I'm glad I own no stock in this company. I don't think I could sleep knowing my money was in a very leaky boat with impaired deck officers.  Maybe you really should bake cakes , because code writing  just is not  working for you. My only loyalty from this point on is to my clients and myself.Hard earned cash should buy solutions and not admission to Daw Hell.
Please remove from forum. I do thank the kind helpful members for help over the years. I do however believe now this company in beyond help.

As with everything "the grass is Always greener on the other side" . I just hope you're not looking at weeds instead of grass.

Good luck with cubase.

Goodbye then, Mr Chips.

If you were to pause from wallowing in self pity long enough to pay a decent amount of attention to the countless threads that are in this forum where people have audio crackles and dropouts, you would have seen that in 100% of the cases the issue was with one or more of the following:

1.  Slow computer
2.  Little computer memory
3.  Cheesy sound card - sometimes even the on-board sound chips
4.  Not using ASIO
5.  Improper settings for ASIO, such as sample rate mismatch or using too high a sample rate
6.  Hardware/software issues with the computer that interfered with audio streaming
7.  Anything else along these lines that I missed

My point is this.  In virtually EVERY single posted thread on audio dropouts and crackles, it has NEVER been an issue caused by Sonar.

So, you want to go - guess what, your dropouts and crackles will follow you to whatever recording software you think is going to be the Holy Grail.  And don't blame Cakewalk for your being too lazy to research that issue, and too lazy to apply that research to properly configure your audio hardware/software environment for audio processing.  To the best of my recollection, the rest of us have figured out how to configure things so that dropouts and crackles are eliminated for probably close to 100% of projects out there - although some have to freeze/bounce/etc mostly due to not enough memory in their computers for projects that have a zillion tracks and a boatload of virtual synthesizers.  Even those projects have a proven method of getting rid of any audio problems, through freezing/bouncing.  That leaves just you, because you didn't take the time or effort to set things up properly.

Are there bugs?  Sure, there are.  There always will be.  That is true of every piece of commercial software that has ever been developed.  Maintenance is scheduled and performed on a triage basis, where any show stoppers are dealt with first, and then other fixes are addressed through a variety of methods of determination of things like impact of any given issue to the users - issues that affect more users more often are given more priority than more obscure bugs.  That's how things work in software development.  

Nonetheless, there are a whole bunch of folks being quite productive using X2, and X1, and 8.5.3 - working within whatever limitations there are, but working nonetheless.

Coffee tastes better when you aren't crying in the cup.  Good luck.

Bob Bone

I've tried to go to other daws, yet I keep coming back. I am happy with the direction Cakewalk is taking. Especially after their rocky X1 release. FWIW I've never had problems with the software. I've recorded three albums for myself. At times I've had over 120 tracks in a song (with effects). Not a crack, not a pop, no latency, no dropouts, nothing. No exaggeration! The only time I've had problems was when my memory sticks went bad. I could have blamed it on the software, but because the software had always been stable for me, I knew it was hardware. Your hardware might react differently to a different DAW, but for what it's worth, Sonar has always been harmonious with mine. Knock on wood. Ciao allora

I'm afraid that if you can't track 24 tracks at once you've got far bigger problems than your choice of software.

Good luck.

BYE.
You would think it would be cheaper to stick with X1 and wait for a service pack for X2, or plea for help but each to their own.

If you can't use 24 tracks efficiently ask yourself why others can? That's most likely your hardware or lack of optimization with Sonar, you've neglected to say if there were issues with X1 or not. But hey drama and finger pointing is always fun to read.

 
> Sad all he expressed is his opinions and got a heckels raised by the fans.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the original post was one big heckle towards Cakewalk.... the love you take is equal to the love you make.
 
Did you actually read the original post? One HUGE heckle:
 
> I See other loyal cake walkers sniffing out other Daw sites so I am afraid I am not the only one. I'm glad I own no stock in this company. I don't think I could sleep knowing my money was in a very leaky boat with impaired deck officers.  Maybe you really should bake cakes , because code writing  just is not  working for you. My only loyalty from this point on is to my clients and myself.Hard earned cash should buy solutions and not admission to Daw Hell.
Please remove from forum. I do thank the kind helpful members for help over the years. I do however believe now this company in beyond help.

So sad .

Strangely enough, he said this exactly one year ago:

" I have used Slimeberg, and No Tools and do not use them anymore because of their lack of customer support"

Man I tried to stay out of this, but here goes.

@Anniedog: I feel your pain. If I were in a professional environment, I have to admit, I would never use Cakewalk software. I understand that software has it's quirks and little bugs here and there ... but nothing to the extent that X1 and X2 have given us.

I don't understand why people are so loyal to a corporation and spout off like in post #5. Dude ... there is so much wrong what you said in that post that we would be here for a year discussing it.

Cakewalk has absolutely ZERO loyalty to anyone here. Same for Cubase, ProTools, and all the others. They are here to make money. Period. They aren't here to help you through your day, or befriend you. The people at Cakewalk are there to pay for their cars, homes, children, etc. If anyone has any notion of anything different and feels all warm and fuzzy inside because they've stayed loyal to Cakewalk and feels the need to come on here and defend them and belittle anyone who takes a stand that says they've had enough ... well ... you're an fool in my opinion.

Why does everybody announce their "bye bye"?
Really gets under my skin.

Posers.....

 

And Steinberg's DAW's are very likely to get major notation improvements as they just hired Sibelius' development team: http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/press/archive/2012/uk_rd_center.html.
I really hope that Cakewalk will keep up with the competition.
Serge

bitman


Why does everybody announce their "bye bye"?
Really gets under my skin.

Posers.....

May be there are scared by "fan boys"? 


Even if these fan boys can not update the forum software (I see it is 2009... 3.5, I can also see that 2012... 3.9 exists),
they could create "Bugs and complain" thread (sticky, can be premoderated, with FAQ at the top) and so significantly cleanup the forum.


So far, SONAR is the most buggy commercial software installed on my PC. I like it! But that does not change the fact. If someone will say that is "my fault" or  "bad hardware", I can only answer: if you are real professional in music, most probably you just had no time to learn how computers works so long as I did...


PS. I had no intention to spam there, I wrote (much more detailed) priv. mail to one Platimum member but I have got no response.

I've found the solution for the impatient :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0u3NM8rd1U

Nor am I, as long as your don't spit out the hatred, where on earth did this fanboy concept come from? I am agreeing X2 needs a service pack. Never use first iterations of software in production - simple as that. X1 is stable as a rock, it had 4 service packs - go figure. Same with any complex software sorry, if you use first iterations of software then you are the testers.

Does Cubase still require a dongle? I'm just not a dongle convert. Why did that word ever get invented, lol. Say it over and over. Dongle dongle dongle. No dongle is good dongle as far as I'm concerned.
But each to their own dongle I guess.

I've got nothing against dongle users, just the dongles themselves.

Where am I going with this, I don't know.

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Edit: I hope it works out well for you Annie.