Scott, the "Inspector" may be one of two things I've seen so far that appears to have a bug. It really doesn't fully function for me. I can click things and nothing happens, and I can click other things and then what appears to be a mini screen pops up in a flash and then is gone before I can read it. I really can't get the Inspector to function enough to use it.
I also had trouble with Drums on Demand. I was on the phone to Jim about it yesterday, plus swapped a lot of emails with the Drums on Demand people.
I can open Sonar X1 x86 and I can use Drums on Demand. I can drag a loop over to a track and it works and plays fine. If I do that in X1 x 64 it sounds fine in the audition, but if I drag it over to a track it goes haywire when I play it. I let Jim listen, and then we did a track in x86 and re-opened it in x64. It went haywire again. Then we did the same thing but the next time did a track "freeze" and when I opened it in x64 it played fine. Drums on Demand plays fine in Pro Tools 9, and I believe that is a 32 bit system just like Sonar X1 x86 is a 32 bit system. Beta Monkey plays fine in x64 or x86, and so does Precision Drummer and RAW drums. These are just CD's I've bought and collected over the years, but it was very revealing that eveything played but Drums on Demand in x64.
Jim and the DoD people can better explain the theory and reasons for this, but I'm not a techie that really understands how a lot of the DAW functions work, and why they do. Suffice it to say, after we'd tried all these tests, we all believed this is a bug in Sonar X1 x64 (64 bit.)
I feel the same about the Inspector feature. It's just not right. Some things work, most things don't, and when I click certain features it tries to open a menu but it just flashes open and closed in a split second, so fast, it just looks like a white blink.
I can work around all this, but I do hope any X1 update will address these two issues.
Don
EDIT: And despite this, I still think X1 is by far the best of all the recorders.
post edited by JustGotPaid - 2011/06/28 17:28:10