I think I have finally had it with Sonar X1 after 2 months!

bobguitkillerleft


Until my join date,I'd NEVER used any computer EVER in my life,but I played electrical guitar pro for years.

Learning to use a computer,and X1 took a good 6 months,and now at 47 y.o.,I don't seem to have enough time to get everything down thats been waiting 15 years since I was in a 24track studio.

The secret for me was getting a desktop,as well as the laptop[Dell XPS i7, that doesn't always behave],whereas the desktop is perfection.

I got the desktop,after tons of frustration,and instead of blowing 1,500 on an RME interface I bought another computer,and now have X1D Exp. x64 on both machines,all plugs everything duped,and due to having both,if there's a disaster[and lets face it,crap can happen,anytime really] I have piece of mind knowing,the other machine will be ready to go.

Sorry to hear of the drama,but this is what helped me,heaps.

Bob.  P.S 32bit was a nightmare on my laptop completely,64 is way more stable[though 32 is flawless on the desktop] X1 is VERY machine/HW dependent In my opinion,regardless of my short,but INTENSE 12 months experience.

jshep0102


Just observations, no attacks:
A dedicated daw made for music by a professional (Jim Roseberry, for one) makes a HUGE difference. I use X1d Exp. I can run more instances of more synths (Kontakt, Steven Slate 4, B4II, Sampletekk Seven Seas Grand in Kontakt to name some) all at the same time - no dropouts, no crashes. A Dell laptop is not in the same league. Without much more info, the really excellnt, quick to help regulars here can't offer much more than speculation, either.

I hope when folks go on to their next recording app, they have better results. But truthfully, they shouldn't be surprised if they don't. There's bugs everywhere...

bladetragic

xabiton


I have been doing a lot of google searches lately and I am finding more and more people have been having issues with Sonar. I love Sonar X1 and I love Reason 6 as well and I hate that I feel like I have to make a choice between the two when the reason I bought Sonar X1 2 months ago was to use the two together. Sonar X1 has been a big trouble shooting session after big trouble shooting session and I am not happy with it right now. Between the poor technical support, the large amount of ignored bugs, and the biggest one of all the fact that you guys have had the audacity to upgrade your rewire in X1d to 64 bit knowing it didn't work right and even admitting that it doesn't work right over the phone with customer support. I am very frustrated with this and I have spent the better part of a month googling fixes and buying plug ins to work with a program that has a busted feature that should just work in the first place. Not to mention the audio dropouts. I thought it was an issue with my audio interface (propellerheads balance) but in fact when I run any other audio app this doesn't happen its only with Sonar. I am very upset because I think Cakewalk does have some great ideas but when you try to add more and more features and focus less on stability or making sure that the old ones work right it makes customers very much so angry and upset. It only makes it worse to find out that I cannot sell my Sonar licenses once they have been registered. I am not new to Sonar I bought home studio in 2005 and that version of home studio runs 100 times better than your current flag ship software with everything i own. I am afraid to ask if I could upgrade it to 64 bit because I think if you guys touched it that it may come back screwed up! Anyway I just hope that Cakewalk takes my complaint seriously and really works to focus on fixing ALL of the bugs in their software and not make the cop out that it depends on your system because this is the only software that I have ever heard of not working right even if you have a powerful pc. I am going to test out Reaper and Cubase.      

I feel your frustration, especially the part in red.  This has definitely become one of my main gripes w/ Sonar.  I feel like a lot of things in Sonar are sort of "half-baked" so-to-speak in comparison to other DAWs.  It seems their focus is more on things like ProChannel which is redundant since pretty much everything it offers is already available in adundance via 3rd party.  Not saying I don't like PC, but I really feel their time and resources would be much better spent thoroughly "baking" the core functionality of Sonar.  This is why I have stopped purchasing the PC modules.  I simply can't justify buying another unnecessary PC module when basic automation functions (which are necessary) flat out don't work at all.  There is no reason almost every other program is gapless while Sonar has been around longer then damn near all of them.   
 
 I realize X1 is supposedly an "overhaul" and the longer release cycle seems to be indicative of deeper development under the hood.  For this reason, I've said for a while that I'm reserving final judgement on the new direction until X2 (or whatever it will be called) to see if Cake is TRULY serious about bringing their A game w/ Sonar, but if some serious leaps and bounds are not made by that time then I'm moving on and my money will be invested elsewhere. 

guitardad


I think any daw performs best if on a dedicated machine desktop platform. If people have all that other stuff going, browsing etc, most daws will misbehave.