Very happy with Sonar X3

Just want to say it, really. I'm very happy with Sonar X3. 

Me, too. (Y) Oops! Thought I was on FB there for a moment.

I have to chime in and say that I'm very pleased too.  I started with SONAR on 8.5 and it was very unstable, to the point of being unusable.  X3, on the other hand, has been rock solid for me...even more so than Cubase 7, and on par with Studio One 2.  To me, the interface is awesome...clean and modern, and just plain intuitive (for most things anyway).
 
G

pro tools is way better.
 
im only kidding, I don't even use pro tools,
I use Cubase,
im only kidding, I don't use Cubase either.
I user reaper,
im still kidding around.
I use sonar and I love it. many have not been as happy with the X series as they were pre-8.5.
myself I have had great results from the get go.. well actually, x1b or c.
after that I have been very happy and have had no show stoppers, just a couple minor annoyance's,
but nothing I have been too annoyed with to the point of complaining.
 
over all the x series and especially X3 here has been awesome.
 
glad others share the same sentiments.

When I used pro tools I felt like a demented parrot trying to make sense of the words my owners were teaching to me.

I remember asking some of my 'music production wizard' friends for help, and they would just say 'just click on buttons and things randomly until something happens'.

This one time I stepped into a music production room for the first time alone, and the technician was on a 15 minute lunch break, and everything was turned off. The sheer hopelessnes ... I actually texted one of the wizard friends to ask how to turn the Mac on ... Because they didn't have power buttons on the front :x

Sonar X3 on the other hand, 100% idiot proof. Just watch a few videos, and now you know everything. Everything just works, its easy, I only hate that I didn't find it sooner. And I get to use it on my uber self built gaming PC.

SubSonic

Photo_G
<snip> To me, the interface is awesome...clean and modern, and just plain intuitive (for most things anyway).
 
G

As I learn more and more of shortcut/hotkey keystrokes to move around in the program, it has become very intuitive to me.
 
Then again, I've been tinkering with this stuff since before I was waiting on *this* upgrade (and hoping my 8088 could run it):

 
So considering that there is even a Windows version of Cakewalk now, that can also now record audio and use cool things like F/X plugins, yeah, the latest version is pretty darn cool. lol

Yeah,
 
I remember punch cards too.

Vab

CakeAlexS

 
I love X3, I especially liked the bit when Magneto moved the Golden Gate bridge over to Alcatraz and all the cars fell in the sea or something.

Now you made me totally hate X3. Worst butchering of a marvel series ever! It was just all wrong, nothing followed the original plots, because the change of director completely destroyed it!

Now you remind me it was a stinking pile of cr*p, time to log an issue.

Hmmm.... Let me check...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3
 

bapuYeah,
 
I remember punch cards too.

Boy that brings back "pleasant" memories. One of first circuit designs used a state-of-the-past super big IBM (360?)computer to "crunch the numbers". I would submit the circuit nodes, parameters, etc. on punch cards. A week later (the computer was at another site) the analysis would come back..."No convergence" (computer couldn't get an answer). Now I can get the same results on my computer in ms! :-)
 
Walt
 

15 years ago all I had was a Yamaha keyboard and a cassette recorder. I recall using the 5 track recorder on my PSR-530 to record my early compositions for school and then recording those onto a cassette, and also I made quite an effort to manually write the scores by hand. Recording computers and software did exist back then, but they were highly expensive, and never mind trying to get an actual piano, they were huge and cost several thousands.

Now sonar easily handles all of that, and surprisingly even writes out the score for me too, and I also found a brand new DGX 630 a few years ago for just £415, which was an instant purchase (a bit more for the stool and pedals though).

A friend of mine, who is also a co worker, just informed me the other day that he had finally bit the bullet and upgraded from X1 to X3.  I told him that he was gonna be really glad that he did.  Will be much easier for us to work on projects together too...since he lives over in the next town.

I can crash anything... ya ever heard of those kinda people????  I've spend years diddling around, making changes...from Sonar 5 up... it makes creating music difficult and really craps all over artistic inspiration...combine that with a less than rigorous personality...and I've done way less songwriting than I wanted...
 
Has this changed? Yes... Have I crashed X3? Yes!  was I doing stupid stuff? YES!!!!!!!!!
 
But, for the first time in a real long time, I'm having fun; I'm able to let artistic inspiration flow and I'm learning all the amazing tools which actually work...
 
I'm in heaven...
 
Really...