Sonar X3? Sonar X2 patch? Wheels come off?

It's been a while since I graced the shiny boards of the Cakewalk manor forums. I expected to find patches galore for X2 and the see early teasings of a fine new release features titillating the faithful.
 
But no.
 
Frankly, it's all a bit drab round here. A bit like a south London pub after a bit of a nasty punch-up. The regulars have sloped off to some nicer boozer where the ale is quite not so good, but here they change the barrels and clean the pipes a bit more frequently and at least you can get on the pool table during the weekdays.
 
Nothing doing here at all. Some newbie who can't hear anything, another asking if some ancient Tascam surface is supported. It really is a bit . . . well dire really.
 
Have the wheels finally come off? Is the party over? Now Brandon and the boys have flown the nest do I detect a bit of a dead vacuum here?
 
I've been trying to master Pro tools 11 as a safeguard for the future. It would be OK if i would run with my Roland Quad Capture, but it just doesn't. No AAX 64 bit plugin support from Waves or Native Instruments yet so its a complete non starter anyway (pun intended).
 
Pro-tools 10 is OK, but I really like using all of my 16Gigs of ram and frankly I quite resent running 32 bit apps on by nice 64bit i7.
 
Tried Studio one for bit but it felt like a bit of a toy. Even shelled out for the Harrison Mixbuss which was great until you notice it crashes a lot and as yet, has no midi recording or VSTi support, so its sort of tape deck and a rather nice (if cramped) mixer. Reaper feels like a bit of a geeks club project and Cubase I just couldn't face learning.
 
Therefore it just might be a really good time to release Sonar X3.
 
Or maybe not X3. . . . . .
 
Just maybe it would be a good idea to bite the bullet and try an altogether new approach. The X series is probably fine under the hood, but the cosmetics are a bit clunky. Mixer way too big and wasteful. Main clips window wasteful in layout. Also if you really want touch control you gonna need longer faders and a way to see the fader underneath them pudgy fingers. Pro channel for god's sake why? I use the plugins I want on a 'need to use basis' I don't need a mixer that folds out into an interstate highway so that I can take a bit of top off the overheads.
 
I digress.
 
Like many industries it would appear that things are in a bit of state at the moment. But we can see the light at the end of this long dark tunnel and shortly, before we know it, we are going to blasted by the searing light of recovery and some of these DAW's are gonna be caught in very dirty underwear. Best get them in the wash now eh?
 
Toodle Pip

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Whats wrong with Pro Channel exactly? I cant live without it now.

brconflict
In my case, I only use the FX in the PC, so it's a large consumption of real-estate to be able to see a list of more than say, 3 FX in the FX bin. 

While I have a 30" (monitor that is) I too have been using FX Chains more and more. I can see where by X3 any new project will be all FX Chain based (even if built dynamically on project by project basis).
 

It will be when it will be.
 
To the original poster: Was there some kind of point to your post?
 
@bapu - whatever your deal with poking sticks at John is, please keep it to yourself.
 
Bob Bone

robert_e_bone
 
To the original poster: Was there some kind of point to your post?
 
@bapu - whatever your deal with poking sticks at John is, please keep it to yourself.
 
Bob Bone

Ooooo Mr Bone. Be calm and put that stone down. Nobody needs a beating here.
Taking a good natured pop a John narrowly avoided making it in as a fully recognised Olympic sport in 2013. As for the point of my post - many I think. Mostly I wanted to set folks thinking. Thinking is better than fighting or finger pointing. Give it a whirl.

I can't imagine Bapu as intimidating.
 
But is this Bapu?  Has he really logged in as another user just because he couldn't post?  Is anyone that sad?
 
To the OP - I imagine X3 will appear.  I see no reason why not, nor any evidence to suggest it won't.
 
And, for me, the ProChannell is great.  The modules sound good, are easy to use, and improve my workflow.

bapu
Youse guyz crack me up.
 
And, it's done with absolutely no sense of humor.
 
Brilliant!!!!

 
Well Done.
 
 
:-)

creynoldsSonar X3 had better be soon, and had better be very, very, good.Or...ライトをオフに残す最後の人As they say in Tokyo.  

I'm a native Japanese living in Tokyo but have never heard of this phrase. Sounds a bit strange to me.

re - patches, I think its just gone back to the pre X1 type of schedule where a patch and a maintenance release a few months after the original release would have not been seen as unusual. The four maintence releases for X1 were exceptional by cakewalk standards.
 
Returning to the "old" schedule we could expect to see X3 in Q4 2013.
 
So IMHO - it looks like after the X1 blip, buisness as usual.

creynolds
 
....Tried Studio one for bit but it felt like a bit of a toy.... Reaper feels like a bit of a geeks club project and Cubase I just couldn't face learning.
 
Toodle Pip

So true!
 

Skyline_UK
Creynolds, I'm afraid it's a classic case of a lot of folks not understanding our English sense of humour.  Guys, it was a very well expressed, witty post from someone who loves Sonar.  Unclench.

I am English, Old bean. I had no problems with the OP, who obviously has some experience in his field.

My problem is with Bapu and Mike's apparent bullying towards John.

Farnham, my old stomping ground. :-). Sounds more like Aldershot to me. And I never called anyone's drink a !@:ker.

Er...ok, back on topic.

I also don't post often, and find Cakewalk's ominous lack of presence (unless they are selling some third party product or repackaged mouldie oldies) quite telling.

I am hoping they are waiting for the release of windows 8.1 before announcing an update or new version. Like the OP, I have dabbled with other daws and would prefer to stay with cakewalk. Unfortunately I may not have this option. Time will tell, as it already has.

Andy

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I am hoping they are waiting for the release of windows 8.1 before announcing an update or new version.

Andy

I do wonder if that is the case.