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2015/02/03 08:21:15
McMoore11
Here's a bug I found in Platinum.  
When I split 3 or 4 tracks of vocal comps to edit, at some point without warning, it will separate all the split edits and space them out randomly from 1 to 4 1/2 measures, thus obliterating the timing of the performances.
Found this little quirk after I'd saved.
2015/02/03 08:56:20
igiwigi
Gerry
I did not want to like it, infact I took the monthly option ready to bail out after a month.
 
Looks like I may have shot myself in the foot as it's growing on me by the minute .  I was honestly expecting crashes, numerous bugs and the general feeling of having a huge christmas tree with half the lights not working.
 
At my age being wrong and admitting to it is no big deal, I have to take my hat off to Cake as I do believe they have got this one right. OK now where are the up-dates? 


Hi I was the same and now need a cloth to wipe the egg off my face!!!!me 63!! Old "B"
All the Best
John
2015/02/03 09:15:36
Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Gerry
I did not want to like it, infact I took the monthly option ready to bail out after a month.
 
Looks like I may have shot myself in the foot as it's growing on me by the minute .  I was honestly expecting crashes, numerous bugs and the general feeling of having a huge christmas tree with half the lights not working.
 
At my age being wrong and admitting to it is no big deal, I have to take my hat off to Cake as I do believe they have got this one right. OK now where are the up-dates? 


Glad you are having good experiences with Platinum. There are many little improvements beneath the hood that that marketing copy can't really cover. When you add them all up it makes a perceivable difference. I will try and outline a few of the changes in a blog post when I get a little time. I have to go back to the code to find all the details since I can't remember lol :)
We're already working on the next update which will have fixes for some of the user reported workflow issues and some cool stuff from Craig. It should be here this month. Its been a crazy since we have to deal with shipping SONAR plus three upcoming products so its been an insane start to the year!
2015/02/03 09:32:13
Gerry
Karyn
Nothing wrong with being cautious Gerry.  Better than jumping in with both feet and finding out it actually IS full of bugs and crashes constantly.
 
My upgrade was as boring as it could possibly be.  I was about to start a recording session with my daughter for another college project.  I told her to wait a while, go make some tea, I have a couple of upgrades to do...
By the time she got back I'd downloaded C3, downloaded and installed Sonar and was part way through the Anderton FX.  The whole thing took a few minutes, not hours like before.
I load it and we did the afternoon session using it.  No problems at all.




Thanks Karyn I had a couple of blips on the install but I did have the antivirus running first time around so that might have been the cause also like many others I had trouble getting my head around the AD install but apart from that smooth as silk. But as you say super quick oh any idea when we are getting a downloadable manual or have I missed something LOL
2015/02/03 09:38:31
Gerry
Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Gerry
I did not want to like it, infact I took the monthly option ready to bail out after a month.
 
Looks like I may have shot myself in the foot as it's growing on me by the minute .  I was honestly expecting crashes, numerous bugs and the general feeling of having a huge christmas tree with half the lights not working.
 
At my age being wrong and admitting to it is no big deal, I have to take my hat off to Cake as I do believe they have got this one right. OK now where are the up-dates? 


Glad you are having good experiences with Platinum. There are many little improvements beneath the hood that that marketing copy can't really cover. When you add them all up it makes a perceivable difference. I will try and outline a few of the changes in a blog post when I get a little time. I have to go back to the code to find all the details since I can't remember lol :)
We're already working on the next update which will have fixes for some of the user reported workflow issues and some cool stuff from Craig. It should be here this month. Its been a crazy since we have to deal with shipping SONAR plus three upcoming products so its been an insane start to the year!




No rush on the updates Noel as I have more than enough to get my old head around for the moment, tomorrow will be fine :-). I came from 7 Producer to Platinum so the change for me is even more amazing I think you should all be very proud of this one.
2015/02/03 09:42:44
John
Gerry X3 was an outstanding release. This one is only following in it foot steps. 
 
You do seem to be able to adjust to the new GUI and that is a good thing. 
2015/02/03 09:43:24
mikedocy
+1 for me too. Platinum is working better than X3e and I like the work-flow changes/improvements.
2015/02/03 10:05:43
Tino Red
Love this DAW!
2015/02/03 10:25:20
Anderton
Gerry
Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
We're already working on the next update which will have fixes for some of the user reported workflow issues and some cool stuff from Craig. It should be here this month. Its been a crazy since we have to deal with shipping SONAR plus three upcoming products so its been an insane start to the year!



No rush on the updates Noel as I have more than enough to get my old head around for the moment, tomorrow will be fine.



I'm really glad to hear the priority for the first update is the workflow issues and any additional bug fixes. Traditionally the first update after a release is bug fixes but if there's extra thrown in, so much the better. I can wait a month for new features and I suspect others are in the same situation.
 
And to confirm, yes I do have some cool stuff! I've already mentioned the Acoustic Piezo amp. I tested it out at Gibson with about a half dozen different guitars with piezo pickups (the downside is now I want a Hummingbird, oh well), and the difference is night and day. I should definitely record some audio examples. The object of the amp is that when you plug the guitar in, it sounds like an engineer spent an hour patching in rack effects and tweaking.
 
I also have a new effect for the Anderton Collection, but I'll let that be a surprise...and some other stuff as well.
 
BTW don't know if anyone noticed, but a lot of the Soft Synth track icons have been replaced by ones I did that I think are more readable. Noel is right, there are a zillion little fixes and changes "under the hood." That is why people are having such good experiences with the program. 
2015/02/03 10:32:16
pentimentosound
This piezo amp sim is of particular interest to me. I spent a lot of my time trying to track acoustic guitars and mandolins, etc via their piezo pickups and never really liked the results (vs my microphones). The option to use them and be pleased, seems like "wish fulfillment"! How cool!
Michael
 
 
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