emeraldsoul
If I upgrade to X3e for $99, I'll gain that sidechaining but I'll have to figure out new comping with the take channels or whatever they are called . . .

 
Just follow the example on how to do "speed comping" in the documentation. You'll never look back...
 

I already own licensed versions of Melodyne and AD2 - if I upgrade, and X3 automatically installs the Sonar versions of Melodyne and AD2, do my existing licenses get screwed up?

I don't have a definitive answer, but I have Editor installed and wanted to downgrade temporarily to Essential to see if a technique I wanted to write about could be done in Essential. I couldn't find a way to do it. Then I thought aha! I also have Studio One Pro installed, and it came with Essential so I'll just try that. However, when I called up Melodyne it showed up as the Editor version, even in SOP that didn't come with it.
 
So based on this, it would seem that if Celemony sees that something has already been installed, it skips over making any changes. But this is not a definitive answer.

Just pulled the trigger on this great deal. Now I'm UP TO DATE (or at least my sequencer is ) & I'm kinda psyched about it. Been following all the threads on it since it was released. Just starting to play with it. Thanks for the heads up Bob.  The last time I had checked the CW store, the deal had gone back to the regular upgrade price.
Best,
HeyDan  

emeraldsoul
I run X1d Producer, love it sort of. Very much a serious weekend hobbyist.
 
I would stay with X1d, except it apparently doesn't and won't sidechain with third party apps. If I upgrade to X3e for $99, I'll gain that sidechaining but I'll have to figure out new comping with the take channels or whatever they are called . . .
 
 . . . I already own licensed versions of Melodyne and AD2 - if I upgrade, and X3 automatically installs the Sonar versions of Melodyne and AD2, do my existing licenses get screwed up?
 
I'm on the fence - - - 
 
thanks,
-Tom
 
Win7/quad core i7 3.4/32 gb ram

I had an existing installation of Meoldyne Essential (came with Studio One) and that installation wasn't screwed up by installing X3. As for Addictive drums, just don't nstall it as it needs to be done via their website in any case. hope that helps you. By the way, both products are the full commercial versions and not some cut down version. They are not locks to Sonar in anyway.

So I might upgrade - but the "undo" problem scares me. I like to make a lot of impulsive mix decisions (i.e. "mistakes") - - - if your control-z and it leaves your last turd standing, but undoes a move three moves back, how do you handle this?
 
Is there a workaround?
 
thanks again very helpful thread.
-Tom

emeraldsoul
So I might upgrade - but the "undo" problem scares me. I like to make a lot of impulsive mix decisions (i.e. "mistakes") - - - if your control-z and it leaves your last turd standing, but undoes a move three moves back, how do you handle this?

That's not the issue; ctrl-Z/undo works exactly as expected. The bug is that that the listing in the Edit History can be out of sync with the undo moves you've done. I haven't looked into it that deeply because when I have used the Edit History to go back lots of steps, it's always worked...but it's not something i use very much. Usually I just need to do a bunch of ctrl-Zs to get where I want to go. If I need to really go back far, I just load a previous version (I "save as" often).

Just in case you didn't see this, it was the subject of an email to me (although I'm already on X3e)
 
[Last Chance] Upgrade to SONAR X3 for $19.99. Really.

Thanks for the post.
 
I had run across that $19.99 price for the basic X3 in some other retail web pages.  It is the same price that is offered on the Cakewalk site for coming to the basic X3 version.
 
Pretty good deals - X3 is great - I use Producer Edition, but X3 in any flavor is still quite stable and a good version to have.
 
Bob Bone