I tried to contact cakewalk, since I noticed that some of the screen elements mentioned in the documentation of sonar x3 do not appear in the colors setting menu of preferences-customization-colors, but there's no way to drop a line to cakewalk.
 
The "Cakewalk Problem Report Form" doesn't work with firefox -great- and an email address is not available on the web site, even better!!
 
What happened to cakewalk? x3 is so buggy! For example, all the short cuts that have been kept constant for so many years, suddenly changed. Good work flow gone!!!! For example calling the track manager in the track view is done by pressing "H". In the piano roll view there is no appropriate short cut and calling the track manager - which here is called "pick tracks" needs to be done by mouse, unless one creates a key binding.
 
Pro audio used to be a great unit, but good old times are probably gone!!! And me as a customer too....
 

Support for X3 was dropped at the beginning of 2016. Has anything else been updated on the PC since X3e was released?
 

Buh-bye, then. Thanks for letting us know.
 
Or... you can stick around and just restore your preferred keybindings as I did.
 
Control of clip background colors was eliminated in X3 (still present as of X2, and colors can be exported/imported from X2). Other than that, I can't think offhand of other colors that are no longer controllable. In any case, development of X3 is done so reporting problems/requests won't get you anywhere.
 
I did not find X3 particularly buggy (assuming you have the 'e' patch installed). It sounds like most of what's bothering you are just differences between X3 and earlier versions.
 
But don't worry, I'm sure the esteemed Mr. Copper will be along shortly to commiserate. 
 

For me X1 and X2 had their teething problems, but I found X3e to be very stable, and that stability has continental to improve in the 2015 - 2016 editions of Sonar. Pro audio is long gone, and I dont pine for it at all.
 
If you find X3e 'buggy' and are really looking for solutions I would suggest troubeshooting your PC and posting details of particular issues.  Brundlefly has already solved one of your gripes for you!

giorgio
 
 
What happened to cakewalk? x3 is so buggy! For example, all the short cuts that have been kept constant for so many years, suddenly changed. Good work flow gone!!!! For example calling the track manager in the track view is done by pressing "H". In the piano roll view there is no appropriate short cut and calling the track manager - which here is called "pick tracks" needs to be done by mouse, unless one creates a key binding.
 
 

 These are not bugs.

I thought X3 was a great DAW. I was very productive on X3 as I am in platinum as well.
sorry to hear of your problems. you may want to investigate your systems set up (soundcard, exc).
Good luck.

What version of windows are you using, XP, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10?  Sound card card?  Video card?  More information is needed in order to obtain help.

chuckebaby
I thought X3 was a great DAW. I was very productive on X3 as I am in platinum as well.
sorry to hear of your problems. you may want to investigate your systems set up (soundcard, exc).
Good luck.

It was my favorite version until Platinum came along. 

giorgio
I tried to contact cakewalk, since I noticed that some of the screen elements mentioned in the documentation of sonar x3 do not appear in the colors setting menu of preferences-customization-colors, but there's no way to drop a line to cakewalk.
 
The "Cakewalk Problem Report Form" doesn't work with firefox -great- and an email address is not available on the web site, even better!!
 
What happened to cakewalk? x3 is so buggy! For example, all the short cuts that have been kept constant for so many years, suddenly changed. Good work flow gone!!!! For example calling the track manager in the track view is done by pressing "H". In the piano roll view there is no appropriate short cut and calling the track manager - which here is called "pick tracks" needs to be done by mouse, unless one creates a key binding.
 
Pro audio used to be a great unit, but good old times are probably gone!!! And me as a customer too....
 

It seems just about every "previous" version of Calkwalk's software  is "buggy" and includes a stiff-arm treatment from Cakewalk's customer support department.
 
You've got a bunch of cheerleaders on this site who are turning a blind eye to normal "functional" business practices where companies are obligated at the very minimum to register software that is purchased (regardless of its version) - and Cakewalk isn't even doing that with me at the moment.
 
Shut up and buy the newest software is not an acceptable answer. It's just another invitation for a pending disaster. 
 
Anyone with any sense can see that this company (Cakewalk) is headed out-of-business. They don't even answer the phone or emails anymore.
 
Wake up people.
 
 

bobsacco
Anyone with any sense can see that this company (Cakewalk) is headed out-of-business. 

Promise me you will return hear annually and restate this prediction.........
 
 
 
for the next 20 years running.
 
 
 
 
 
 
I need a laugh from time to time.