Should there be an X1c Beta Release first?

kday


If Cakewalk plan on releasing an X1c - They should release a beta version to the public FIRST for additional and a more thorough bug testing and report b4 releasing the official version. The public will always discover things that the limited beta tester team will not.

This way cakewalk can discover more bugs that previous fixes and new feature additions could possibly have created.

Microsoft and many other companies do it this way as a standard. There is a consensus of what works best, I used to be a beta tester.

They did.  Its called X1 a and b!
Just kidding bakers!
 
Brian

grumbleweed4162

They did.  Its called X1 a and b!
Just kidding bakers!
 
Brian

You beat me to it!
 
Grum.

Me too.

Bub.

There's a lot riding on X1C.

You know the rule ... 3 strikes and your out.

In a word NO. IT will be what it will be. Cakewalk will be doing their best to give us all a premium DAW. I don't expect it to be perfect but I expect CW to keep working in it until it is smooth as a baby's butt. We now have really good processors, we have 64bit windows, we have drivers that are better and better. Everything iscoming together to create the environment for them to produce a DAW that will run like it should if... you have a new computer and interface. Any chain is only as strong as its weakest link. There are two laws at work here. There is Murphy's law: if anything will go wrong it will and there is Moore's law: that the number of transistors on a chip double every year (that may have slowed a bit but it stil holds). Moores law is going to overcome Murphy's law very soon.
Listen to people like Jim at Studiocat and if he is able to run X1 without problems then so should you. I truly think that since the price of an awesome computer has become affordable, if you get one and an interface that is new and jam up, you have your DAW setup by a pro like Jim... you are going to be happy. That is my opinion.
They will get it right. If it still needs tweaking, they will be on it... but now is the time to make sure all your hardware is up to the task of making good use of the new software, OS, and drivers.

Have faith. Look for the good. If it just does not suit you, move on to something else.

Julien

@OP

Oh You.




Like that's gonna happen or even help for that matter.
We're the beta testers.

Bring it on btw Cakewalk.

I'm hoping for a scrollable ProChannel
Oh and a Pony too.

A nice one.

Given that it's going to be a free update, I'm not sure how putting it out and calling it a beta would be significantly different from just putting it out.

Well... yes. But that's true whatever they choose to call it. As always with a software update, you can choose to apply it right away, or you can wait and see if other users say it's okay. All that would be different would be the nomenclature.

Well, yes, that's my point, in the case of free updates, it kind of makes no odds. It's merely an "implication"; there are no practical differences.

Yes, I get the idea.

How about this. Everyone who wants a public beta, but wouldn't want to risk being a tester in one can just not download it until enough other people say it's working okay.

"If Cakewalk plan on releasing an X1c - They should release a beta version to the public FIRST" - - - Ask and you shall receive: http://www.cakewalk.com/S...reader.aspx/2007013244

You can always choose to NOT load and wait to see how others are doing with it.  Me, I'll load it on my test box first then after running it in my test environment and checking out this forum to get other Users feedback, I will eventually load X1c on the "real" Music Box.