Is sonar x2 essential worth the upgrade from MC6?

its a lot better than mc6.
a little learning curve. but with that said there is more video tutorials out there for sonar than mc5 or 6

this is what it comes with http://www.cakewalk.com/products/SONAR/SONAR-X2-comp-chart.pdf

Zeano182


Title says it all really. Want to move on from mc6 but can't afford the studio version... Is the essential version worth it?

For 49.00 it's worth a Look.

the plug ins are what the big difference is.
and your talking about an entry level software compared to a more realistic studio software.
(even at the essential level)

chuckebaby

Jlien X


Maybe after X2b is released. If you upgrade now, you won't be able to clone MIDI tracks.

you cant clone a midi track ?
I wasn't aware of that.
 
what's the work around, to just copy it to a new midi track ?

It was confirmed by Dan Gonzalez at Cakewalk on Jan 24 (according to my email). The plus and minus buttons in the Repetitions field don't work, and directly entering a value in the field displays this error message "Please enter a value from 0 through 0." Strange, isn't it?
The work around Dan told me was "When you want to add more Audio or MIDI tracks please select that track and hold SHIFT and select 0 repeatedly," which I think isn't a workaround at all for cloning tracks, but is just a faster way to add tracks. Cloning audio tracks works fine. 

Jlien X

chuckebaby

Jlien X


Maybe after X2b is released. If you upgrade now, you won't be able to clone MIDI tracks.

you cant clone a midi track ?
I wasn't aware of that.

what's the work around, to just copy it to a new midi track ?

It was confirmed by Dan Gonzalez at Cakewalk on Jan 24 (according to my email). The plus and minus buttons in the Repetitions field don't work, and directly entering a value in the field displays this error message "Please enter a value from 0 through 0." Strange, isn't it?
The work around Dan told me was "When you want to add more Audio or MIDI tracks please select that track and hold SHIFT and select 0 repeatedly," which I think isn't a workaround at all for cloning tracks, but is just a faster way to add tracks. Cloning audio tracks works fine. 

I must not be understanding this correctly cause I just cloned session drummer 3 and its midi content track and it worked.
do you mean cloning midi layers ?
 
I clone the midi track by selecting the track first/then in the track box ,right clicked,clone track.
the box comes up/hit okay.

Biggest differences for me were more tracks/effects/synths in a project and the ability to have more than two simultaneous inputs while tracking.  If you have't ran into either of these issues as constraints and MC6 is working for you then there isn't a compelling reason to upgrade.

HOWEVER

Unless the $70 for the upgrade (you are aware that if you buy this as a download/upgrade in the cakewalk store you get a significant discount) will hurt your budget, I thik that the additional plugs (Boost 11 in particular) would make upgrading to Essential a smart thing to do.

It is really worth watching the monthly specials in the Cakewalk Store.  Occasionally they drop the upgrade price for Studio or Producer to a price point that you just can not reasonably refuse.

Glen 

Does Sonar X2 essentials export 24-bit, 48k WAV files?
I will need to send files to other studios to mixdown to whatever they want.

I was disappointed to be restricted in MC6 to 16-bit 44.1k, after the info on the website mislead me into believing it answered the above question. Cakewalk had actually downgraded MC6 from MC5 in that respect.

Does the 64-bit engine in SX2 make a huge difference from the 32-bit one in MC6?

Thank you,

Lee.