benstat

Keni

ampfixer


Kudos Benstat! I'm watching this thread with great interest. I hope the users don't wear you down to a tiny little nub. Let's remember folks, this is freeware being built by somebody who actually has a life that's not funded by Cakewalk. I hope Benstat is at the NAMM booth hosted by Cakewalk. OR, beside the their booth.

Absolutely Noted and Appreciated...

I must say it's hard to hold back as I feel such a nedd for fixes... and he's the only one responding (Tho Cakewalk probably is but not telling us)...

I hope Ben knows to tell us to backoff when he's tired! ;-)

Well it's fine so far! It's a nice little project to get my teeth into.

rbowser

benstat


I've just made beta 2 available and changed the title of this thread accordingly. You can download it here:

http://www.staton.co.uk/downloads/sonarx1helper_v0.9.1.0.zip

I'll post a list of improvements soon.

I didn't intend to release a new version so soon, but rbowser and king_weasel highlighted the fact that the original version doesn't work with Studio or Essential, so I did a quick fix (hopefully anyway, rbowser and king_weasel - please let me know if it works or not).

[Edit: Don't expect too much - it's mainly bug fixes.]

There ya go, that fixed it Ben.  Back from shopping, amazed to see that while I was gone, you've updated the Helper with this Studio version fix.  After I posted earlier, I suspected that using X1 Studio was the problem. 

Now I've run it, everything's going as advertised.  Great!

I understand that Helper is a program distinct from X1, and so its settings are independent, so opening a project won't bring up whatever settings we had going in Helper.  But I'm not sure if I understand what the preferred method is of opening Helper.  What I've done is create a shortcut for down in my computer's task bar, right next to the X1 icon.  That's OK isn't it?

One more question - the 8th button from the left, not sure what the icon is.  I think that's running/stopping the Audio engine?

Amazing that you did all this Ben - wow - thanks!

Randy B.

benstat


Hi Keni,
Please try resetting all of your preferences via the 'Configuration' tab in Preferences, and let me know how it behaves after that.
Thanks,
Ben

Keni

benstat


Hi Keni,
Please try resetting all of your preferences via the 'Configuration' tab in Preferences, and let me know how it behaves after that.
Thanks,
Ben

Hi Ben...

I'm trying, but I can't get 9.1 to open. I continue to get those same error messages... 9.0 continues to work... Neither are in the menu system. Both launched from desktop...

I deleted the unpacked copy in which I changed those settings and unpacked a fresh copy... It still won't open giving the same error messages... So I've started looking for it in the registry... but I still haven't found such...

What do you think I should try so that I can get it back to defualts? Can I somehow change the config without opening 9.1?

Thanks... It's good that you released it as these might still have occurred and this brought "it" to the surface fast... ;-)

Keep up the good work!

Keni

benstat

rbowser

Interesting--I take it that was a request from people that you noticed, so you implemented it?-- I'm just the opposite, wanting all my folders closed so I don't have so much to wade through.  I expand and shrink folders as need - So I guess I'll skip that button. 

RB

Thanks for the update Randy. I'm having trouble duplicating Keni's problem which makes it difficult to fix. Still investigating.
The expand all plug-in folders thing was actually one of the things I really wanted straight away, and was the very first thing I added to Helper for my own use. Just goes to show that different people use Sonar in very different ways!
Anyway, a not too distant update will allow you to select exactly which buttons you want to show in the Helper toolbar.

benstat


By the way, I have no doubt that this is a real problem that needs fixing, but I do wonder if anyone else is seeing this with the new beta 2 version? If so, perhaps you can help narrow this down...

koikane


I have watched the X1 posts for over a month now, usually I upgrade to the next version after I see the reactions of the members here,  but do to all the negative feedback I did not this time, simply stayed trucking with 8.5.3. 
 
Funny how users have taken it upon themselves to make this release right.  Also, I find it not so funny that none of the forum moderators have chimed in yet on this post. You can bet they have the design team in over the weekend trying to combat Benstat's "user update release".  They must not have taken you seriously that simply things like an undo/redo button and save button might be fun to use.
 
Even if the layout is better in the long run, developers need to remember that they are the ones that taught us to use menus in certain ways, drop downs in certain ways and even work flow (even if at times it does not make the best sense we get used to it)
 
I relate this to how Windows 7 is now compared to all previous versions. No matter how much I try I still like the "My computer" and "Start Menu" of XP/ME/all other versions better than 7. Call me old fashioned but "they," taught us this way.
 
Sometimes change does suck, to many times we say "don't be afraid of change," however when the "change" sucks, they users rebel.  This is a classic episode that we have never seen since the likes of "Exporting to Tracks," in Cubase 3 when the forum moderators actually made the users ap a Sticky. 
 
I may just break down and buy X1 now. Cakewalk should take a closer look at what users want and not the future.
 
My $.02!