... was sort of amazing, in a subtle kind of way.
 
Had a couple of hours free late afternoon, so I paid for the upgrade, downloaded the command centre, logged in, and clicked "install all" on the Sonar entry.
 
CCC went about its business for about 45 mins, and said the install was complete. Wasn't asked for a serial number or anything at any point. Super easy and well-designed.
 
Fired up Sonar, let it scan for VSTs, went and pulled in all my track and project templates for previous versions.
 
At which point, the next client arrived to do about five hours work on an already underway project. I decided, as a quick test, to pick it up in Sonar Platinum, but revert to X3 as soon as anything went awry. Well, nothing happened. No crashes, nothing missing that should be there, no playback issues, no record issues, no anything issues. Even went ahead and used the VocalSync tool, which took all of 30 seconds to figure out.
 
I have one very minor thing, which has been mentioned by a couple of people, which is that most of the pictures in the ProChannel right-click menu have disappeared. But other than that, I'm sort of quietly astonished.

Same here.


Tips I have for upgraders are.


Don't install Melodyne, Dim Pro, Rapture - Well I haven't and it worked fine just not listed in Command Centre. Well I'd be interested to see what happened with upgraders that did (which case ignore this advise).
 
Also clear your picture cache.
 
Look in Sonar Edit-> Preferences and make sure it is all set correctly. The defaults may not take advantage of your system, and your file paths may not be optimal.
 
What I do (not a one size fits all approach):
Latest ASIO driver and it is selected.
MIDI devices enabled.
Use 64 bit double precision engine = on
Share drivers with other programs = off
Use mulitprocessor engine = on
(I untick the ASIO reported latency settings, some might not think it a good idea).
I turn off the automatic background as I don't need it
I have quadcore so I check ThreadSchedulingModel in the config file section= 2.
I keep an eye on the playback buffers in milliseconds when MIDI goes bad.
I turn off "always echo current MIDI track" as it confuses me.
 
Oh and I defrag all my drives after an install, and later on I do I full system backup (I have already done one before installation).
 
Ta..
 
 

I didn't install Melodyne...and it was a disaster.  I have MEditor so there
was no need to install Messential.  But, once the install was complete,
MEditor did not show up in either the Region FX or VST list.

So I had to uninstall, rescan, reinstall, and rescan....all was well.
Several others had similar problems.

But, C3 is a good way to go.  Certainly better then downloading and trying to
install, gettting errors, re-downloading, trying to install (from what I've read on
previous releases).  Definitely a much smoother install experience this way.

I installed DimPro and Rapture.  I haven't used them yet, but don't anticipate any problems.  I did not install Melodyne, as I already have a full license.  The VST scanner picket up Melodyne OK.  I used Melodyne a bit and it was all normal.
 
I did, however crash the system when I did multiple scenes, with one of the scenes including a Melodyne region, so clearly that feature isn't quite solid yet.  The scenes worked OK until I did it with a Melodyne region.

it worked great for me too. Thank you cakewalk for not making me download 6 gigs this time. I am very impressed by the number of little ease of use changes u guys have made since last version.

CakeAlexS...Tips I have for upgraders are....
Use 64 bit double precision engine = on...
 

Thanks for the tips! I thought that using 64 Bit double precision engine didn't add anything to the dynamic range.
 
Appreciate an explanation.
 
Thanks since I'm still learning.
 
Walt

Yeah,I agree. And while you're at it alexhow about detailing your graphics drivers and monitor refresh rates. You don't have them in your sig.

WallyG

CakeAlexS...Tips I have for upgraders are....
Use 64 bit double precision engine = on...
 

Thanks for the tips! I thought that using 64 Bit double precision engine didn't add anything to the dynamic range.
 
Appreciate an explanation.
 
Thanks since I'm still learning.
 
Walt

There are some long and legendary threads about this so better not rock the boat too much and supply you this link:

https://www.cakewalk.com/...-Options-Audio-General

Cheers

John T
 
 
I have one very minor thing, which has been mentioned by a couple of people, which is that most of the pictures in the ProChannel right-click menu have disappeared. But other than that, I'm sort of quietly astonished.

 
I've got this as well.
 
Anyone know of a fix yet?

Yes. I went into preferences > VST settings and did a manual rescan, with "re-scan existing plug-ins" checked. That seemed to fix it.