Rodab


Verdict for me is, sonar x1 is a no go....period.  Doesn't work.  The update was cool, but too many fundamental things have issues for it to be worth using. If I were looking for a new daw, I'd definitely look elsewhere.  Sorry, wanted really bad to love you sonar and I probably will keep trying you on occasion since you have potential.

A1MixMan

FastBikerBoy

John

FastBikerBoy


Great..... as long as you don't use drum maps. See my posts elsewhere from today's nightmare session.

Oh oh I'm afraid to ask. 

I have enough trouble with drum maps. 

It's all good now, Seth has just replied to one of my threads and given me a great tip that may even make drum maps redundant, for me at least. It only took about 5 minutes for the tip to get through my thick skull as well.

Please enlighten us, if you will. I never understood drum maps that well to begin with...

Either way, the implemention of Screensets is a gem!

ba_midi I've been dead in the water with it. Crash city. However, I'm setting up one of my powerful laptops with windows7 fresh to see how it goes there. I have no trouble with 3 other major DAWS/hosts on my main system, though. Only X1. So we'll see if I can get a stable go at it with a different system. Sorry to hear you're having continued problems billy. It's become usable for me but in light of the troubles I had it's going to be in "quarantine" for a while before It becomes a prodcution tool. But it is now stable in that no white screens from jsut sitting idle, projects load fast and system seems really smooth functioning. No more disappearing control bar even with the "recipe" I can't make it disappear but then again when it used to go to black for me it had nothing to do with auto save settings. Prochannel now seems to remember it's on/off state. I've had a 4 minute project of some 40 tracks, 30 fx and 10 VSTis processing in real time on a continuous loop )recording to a stereo mox) running for hour after hour with no freezes, white screens, dropouts or other identifiable issues. That's light years in function from X1B anything and fullfils the hope I had in X1C fixiing things up for me. But of course I've also been running a business for 8 months where X1 was not usable. A time when I had to make decisions about how to continue so now I have work out where X1C fits into my plans. Certainly it's great to be able to finally come to grips with the GUI and the other changes without the software always disappearing, locking up etc. It will sure make learning about it the pleasure I wished it had been from the start. I don't have any negative comments to make about my X1C experience so far but we'll see what that translates to in real terms as I test it more. Because I had to stay with SONAR 8.5.3 and it took 8 months to get to a stable X1 release for me to use, I made a choice whether to just wait and hope that all would work out with X1, remain with an End of Line DAW (SONAR 8.5.3) or cast a broader net in search of software on which to base my studio. I decided that I would look at the available toolsets rather than the specific names of DAWS and just get what I wanted. That way I can use the tool that will do the job I want and I will be able to continue to stay at the front of the technology curve rather than at the back of it. So in 8 months I've come to grips with quite a few more DAWS than I had in the past. What that's done for me is made me look mre at what I want to do or what a client wants me to do for them rather than letting myself be molded by the DAW I now just use the DAW that can provide the tools that let me get the job done. While it's true that most DAWS will get the job done, there are undeniable strengths that can be associated with various DAWS. Bit of a waffle on but that's where I am at now. Don't think I'll eve be locked to any one DAW ever again. regards, Mike V.