I go to Studiocat site...

Well ... considering that I couldn't even use X1 ... I'd say no matter how you read it, it's not a good sign.

Starise

 Probably hasn't updated his site yet....too busy fixing computers.

Does anyone even use the internet anymore? That was so 2012!

Jim is not a web design guy... he's a system config expert and he knows music and sampler scripting real good too.

The first phone call is free. Sometimes the second is too.

He's real gentle and patient and wonderful.

A quick phone chat could be a start of a long term plan. He'll never try to close a deal by rushing you to a decision.

He's one of the world's great gentlemen.





On the other hand... Roland published it's latest news dated Feb 8th 2013 just today: Instead of 100 layoffs they now plan on 350... in the music division.  Computer music sales division was down 13% compared to the previous bad year. Yuck.

Roland should hurry up and make something that people want to buy and stop blaming this on Lehman brothers. 

:-(



best regards,
mike

mike_mccue


Jim is not a web design guy... he's a system config expert and he knows music and sampler scripting real good too.

The first phone call is free. Sometimes the second is too.

He's real gentle and patient and wonderful.

A quick phone chat could be a start of a long term plan. He'll never try to close a deal by rushing you to a decision.

He's one of the world's great gentlemen.





On the other hand... Roland published it's latest news dated Feb 8th 2013 just today: Instead of 100 layoffs they now plan on 350... in the music division.  Computer music sales division was down 13% compared to the previous bad year. Yuck.

Roland should hurry up and make something that people want to buy and stop blaming this on Lehman brothers. 

:-(



best regards,
mike

I believe it could be continueing in that direction for the next 4 years. Maybe they'll survive.
And they may be trying without me.
 
I personally don't give a sh*t if he's a nice guy. I wasn't looking for a friend or to call and talk.
I wanted to know what he has to offer and noticed X2 wasn't on the list and wondered why.
So the answer is he's not a web designer. Ok...thanks.
 
 

 I  think that spacey is going to the the right place. If it is the computer and isn't the software. I don't think we can blame it all on X2. 

 Hang in there Spacey help is on the way.

spacey

I believe it could be continueing in that direction for the next 4 years. Maybe they'll survive.
And they may be trying without me.

I personally don't give a sh*t if he's a nice guy. I wasn't looking for a friend or to call and talk.
I wanted to know what he has to offer and noticed X2 wasn't on the list and wondered why.
So the answer is he's not a web designer. Ok...thanks.

Spacey, you rule! LOL!

I was wondering that myself, it has been out for quite a while now.

Jonbouy

Starise

I  think that spacey is going to the the right place. If it is the computer and isn't the software. I don't think we can blame it all on X2. 

Hang in there Spacey help is on the way.

I wonder if Jim will fix the bugs that I have that migrated from 7 thru 8 to 8.5 and were certainly still there at the end of X1's technology preview for X2 period all those software revisions and two well-found systems later.
 
My machine works fine with everything, there's evidence of it up in this forum just now.  There is no other content creation tool I know that recommends a bunch of $ consultation fee on top to get it running well enough so you can use it.
 
It would help to spread your wings a little and notice this Jim'll fix it culture only happens here.
 
I have a huge admiration for Jim but he doesn't write the code for Cakewalks products which generally run fine but are littered with booby traps.

[Dave Hester Voice]
Yeeeee-ep.
[/Dave Hester Voice]

mike_mccue

Don't forget having to watch 9 hours of video to find out which screen set button to push to find out where the stereo interleave button is.

I was freaking out there for a while ... they changed the icon for it in the X2 - A patch.

I don't know why they piddle around with freaking icons while the bloody take lanes aren't working!

Crazy.

Jim and I have a plan to build me the very best Win 7 64 system I can get the moment I ask him to go for it.

The last time he built me a DAW, Vista 64 was king of the hill but he built me a XP 32 bit system that still rocks steady today. I'm sticking with the kind of solution that makes me happy.

Every solution is personalized... I don't know what he'd recommend to you and you can't either until you spend a few minutes and have a chat.

He may tell Spacey what he already knows and there may be no need to spend another dime.

He may introduce Spacey to full function touch and change his experience for the better.

Who knows?




It's way past none of my business and now I regret having said anything on anyone's behalf. :-)


best,
mike

 Video editing is so 2012 anyway....never mind wrong post.

... as long as you pay him.

jbow

Don't forget having to watch 9 hours of video to find out which screen set button to push to find out where the stereo interleave button is.

 
I knew I forgot something... the 9 hours of videos, DOH!!
 
BTW, is there a button to stop the neighbor's dog from barking?

Yes. It's called 'the trigger'. <smily face
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Did you see the smily face?

Hi spacey,
 I haven't suggested that you spend a cent on a new computer,k graphics card, OS etc.

 I have suggested that you consider that chat... guilty as charged... I won't do it again. :-)

 I have studiously avoided telling you to do what I have done.

 I have told you what I have done... I won't do it again.

 If I may, when I say that my system ran X1 something just fine... it did... as long as I didn't do the stuff that made it not work. So I'm not trying to say it actually worked 99.99% and should for you... and I am gonna refer the last line and stop there.




 If, by any chance, you want some one to list the step by step tweaks then maybe I can help. If I may explain, I did pay Jim to do them but that was because I appreciated the details of what he is doing... it's likely that many of us can help with the step by step Windows tweak recipe. I'm kinda a klutz with the latest bios but I'll bet Jonbouy is right up to date.

But!!! It seems like, or at least I think it seems like you were saying that you weren't ready to go there.


If by any chance you just want some commiseration about how exhausting and frustrating this is... well I am here for you. 

I am sorry that the awkward ways in which I have offered sympathies have caused further headache.


I'm half way thru a jam along Blues practice CD and took a quick break... I'll be thinking good thoughts for you.


best regards,
mike


 
 

 

spacey

mike_mccue

Anyways... I'm sensing frustration... might be a good time for me to go hit some strings. :-)

all the best,
mike

It's also frustrating sifting through all the BS or people not claiming to have issues and then you read that they are indeed having issues and decide X2a does have a bug. I don't need to mention names...they're up there posting.

That one ****ing kills me! I see red every time I see someone flip flop like that. They don't even flip flop really, they just freaking sit there and say they aren't having issues, and a lot of times in the same paragraph ... sometimes same sentence they'll mention a bug they run in to so they don't use that function. It freaking kills me. EDIT: Or the guys who say they never have a problem, but don't use 99% of the program.

It's frustrating that minimum requirements posted by the company don't mean anything. My computer
is much more than the company has plainly printed which is obviously BS if one listens to a large percentage of the members.

Yes! YES! 

It's all frustrating because a person can't be a user and trust that the software they invest in will work without them being a trouble-shooting tech or being told...get a new PC from this nice guy.

OMG! YES!@

I apologize if I took away from your thread here at all Spacey.

I agree with everything you said here.

On the subject of Studio Cat ... there's a thread floating around here somewhere where someone told him what they thought of his helpfulness here. It got real ugly IIRC. So, you're not the only one scratching you head Spacey. Jim is a hell of a nice guy, but when he helps, it's just the very basics here on the forum. If you want anything in depth, you have to call him and pay him. Hey, it's the American way. Can't knock a guy for that!

Bub


... as long as you pay him.

I know yor joshin acourse but I actually got to know ol Jim way before he built me a DAW.  I was bein the dimbulb end user stand in as a beta tester for his drum package (which is also very good BTW).  So I had high regard for him before we started exchangin any of that filthy lucre:-)