Learning curve advice

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I have used Cakewalk since the MIDI only apprentice version 1 for windows. I found it always very intuitive and straightforward. I have done every upgrade through pro audio and then into SONAR. And each update was an easy learning curve for new features and changes. But now that we are into X1 and X2, I am lost. I cannot get my work done. Is there a turorial that explains how things have changed?

I can use SONAR 8.5 with ease, but I have great difficulty doing the smallest things in x1. I cannot use audio snap or v-vocal because it works so differently and I have not yet had the eureka moment where I understand the paradigm shift. It can take me an hour just to figure out how to add a new transient marker or how to move one. I cannot figure out how certain tools work or get engaged or why they do not engage when I think I have selected them. I have tracks changing colors, bins shutting off and numerous other things and have no clue how these things happened or how to undo them. The other day I was unable to move a clip from one track to another until I totally removed all envelopes, it just could not figure out how it could be made to move. 

I have worked through parts of SONAR POWER X1 and have searched the help file, but evidently I do not even know what the terminology is for these different features because I am not finding the information I am looking for. There is a real sense that my worst enemy is that I already understand how to use 8.5 and things in X1 operate very differently. It also did not help that I lost my house to a flood when X1 came out and I had it for almost 6 months before even installing it.

What made my audio track go dark gray, what does that signify that it is dark grey and how do I return it to its former state? Why is it that once I have audio snap on a clip that all non audio snap editing options are shut off and I cannot figure out how to get to them without undoing everything I accomplished with audio snap enabled? In fact I am finding that often once I choose to edit anything in a track that I have entered a one way street and cannot edit anything else about that track no matter what I do. 
 
This is puzzling to me. It feels so strange to have gone from highly comeptent to all thumbs.

There are x1/x2 tutorials for sale in the cake store. If you have the groove 3 freebee for a month that cake gave in its content club, you can watch all the videos there.

You just have to go to the cakestore, login and look at the top of your purchase list.

Danny

I don't have an answer for you but I want you to know we feel your pain. Sometimes it takes two or three clicks or just waiting a few seconds and then clicking to get my smart tool to respond. X1 and now X2 still has it's little gremlins lurking around in there. The only suggestion I could come up with is maybe to try adjusting your mouse settings in the Windows control panel. Maybe a slower click setting will help. I hope the bakers are working on some of these fixes as we speak. 

Wait I think I found it.

That button seems more important to me now LOL. I need to slow down and find the time to take this paradigm shift slowly.

Thank you, I am feeling much better now.

See Track 22, under track name "Guitar" is the button Im refering to that is currently set to "Clips".


When working in Audio Snap, I like to have Audio Transient selected.


Then when working on a specific Clip, make sure to click on that clip so it is selected


Another thing for me is to make sure the Smart Tool is enabled.  Its the Star at the upper left corner under "File"

Sometimes,  it is necessary to take a break and sleep. You can waken with a fresh perspective and resolve the problems.

#1 feature request for x3? An option to "restore 8.x GUI behavior". THEN I might buy it. Maybe.