IF X3 is truly available ...How Come We've Not Received Advance Notice?

May got out soon?

They are shipping on the 28th...which puts availability around the 1st of Oct. for 
in store purchases....I'd assume the download will be available the 28th...

simpleman
Looks like Sweetwater pulled the Sonar X3 ads within the last hour or so. Maybe many baking is still going in.

A fellow forum member stated he got the Sweetwater catalog by mail yesterday (9/23) and it had a spread on X3
 
Regards

djwayne ...pretty interesting comment...
 
the ad has been pulled from musician's friend, sweetwater ...IMHO... the advance marketing was premature...
I did read the sweetwater info ...sounds interesting... if all is correct
speculation abounds ...for us long timers, I reckon it's become an annual event of hoping desired changes will be forthcoming...
 

buy a product, wait a year for bug fixes that don't come, buy the next product, leaving another partially broken product abandoned... sonar 8.53, sonar x1, sonar x2...
 
if the corporate policy continues to be the same, i'll probably pass. 

dlion16
if the corporate policy continues to be the same, i'll probably pass. 

You could demand that they stop it right now.
Others are doing it, why not you?

bapu

cclarry
And you can believe in what I say.
(unless I'm wrong)

BAPU....
 
Oh My ... this makes me laugh!!!

djwayne
If I were the king of Gibson, I would want the Tascam name on my new software company and it's products asap. Why wait ??

If you were king of Gibson you wouldn't be posting here at 10:33PM (PST)

hi all new to all this. Just wanted to find out if using sonarx2 without a midi keyboard I can get sound by choosing softsynths and TTS1. Is there a way to get this to default save adding it to each track that is added or loaded

rodders
hi all new to all this. Just wanted to find out if using sonarx2 without a midi keyboard I can get sound by choosing softsynths and TTS1. Is there a way to get this to default save adding it to each track that is added or loaded

You can use any soft synth without a midi keyboard by clicking notes into the piano roll view. My first experience with a cakewalk product was when I was making a backing track for a Russian sketch comedy competition in 2004 using nothing but the mouse and the Piano Roll View. We still won. :)

No holding pattern. Noel and andrew have.both discussed leaked features and that release is imminent ie, within days.

Actually the reps are being very quiet today for some reason......

I'm hoping the temporary freeze when inserting a soft synth has been addressed...
...it also looks like color customisation of screen components has returned...
 
I make my living with this software ...I hope it comes out soon!
I need a new dress.
 

+1..
 
cakewalk is still owned by Roland, ran by Cakewalk and will continue to be so until the contracts have been signed and the financial transaction has occurred. A LOI is simply a non-binding piece of paper stating that two parties have agreed to try to work out a deal. This is likely a 90 days event.
 
..meanwhile, count me OUT of the list of people who think that putting "Tascam" on the box will present a better image... I personally hold the cakewalk name in higher regard, but as long as Noel sticks around and the core group of engineers then its matters not whats on the box, but what was baked into it..
 
 

cparmerlee

The acquisition has not happened - only a letter of intent.  They can't start re-branding stuff willy nilly.  Until the deal is transacted, it may not go through.

 

Mystic38
count me OUT of the list of people who think that putting "Tascam" on the box will present a better image...

Absolutely agree.  I don't think that is the intent.  Whenever you have a conglomerate like Gibson, you need to have some kind of coherent structure.  You can't have one guy calling all the shots on a day to day basis.  You look for synergies and try to get the most compatible businesses into the same group.  When you look at all the Gibson businesses, the only one that even remotely resembles Cakewalk is the Teac/Tascam thing.  I think the idea of the "Tascam professional" thing is to develop what naming experts (yes, that is a specialty) refer to as an "empty vessel."  In this case, the vessel isn't completely empty, but it is sufficiently empty that they can build it over time.
 
Clearly SONAR is a highly recognizable brand in the DAW space and I don't expect anybody at Gibson is foolish enough to do away with that brand.  The Cakewalk name, OTOH, isn't so widely recognized, so that one may gradually disappear.  I interpret the idea of "Tascam Professional Software" to evolve as a general umbrella, and it does suggest that the marketing positioning is more at the high end of the market, realizing that there is little money to be made in the Reaperverse. 
 
Expect  "Tascam Professional Software" to appear in small font on product boxes.  But one should also expect that SONAR will be found within a bigger website that includes all the Tascam products.  That evolution could take 12-24 months.

MakeShift
If boxes are truly shipping out on October 3rd, I would n't expect anything other than Cakewalk on the box.

Yes, of course.  I was talking more like a year from now.  These branding transitions take time.  And Gibson doesn't even own the thing yet.