daveny5


Brandon:
Why on earth would you respond to such an idiotic question in the first place? 

garvolt2002

 We see no responses from the so called users who like the new interface

I have not upgraded

I don't get it! I really don't! Sometimes it looks as if some people don't have anything better to do in their life (if they have a life at all) than post offensive messagfes at forums.

"Sometimes I get the impression that  people with a 42" 1920x1080 displays think they get to see more than people with 18.4" 1920x1080 displays. "
 
 
Size of the monitor has nothing to do with it. Resolution is what I am refering to!

 

garvolt2002

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
]

Cakewalk designed the SONAR X1 UI and it is entirely the intellectual property of Cakewalk. Cakewalk can do whatever it wants to the UI, but changes take development time.

FWIW, many poeple do like the UI- me included - and have said so on this very forum. Anytime you overhaul something like this you have to go back and make some tweaks and you do this partly based on what some poeple feel like is missing from the old way. But I wouldn't say "so many people don't' like it" as many people really do like it.

Brendan this is not the way to respond to loyal customers, I feel you are very sometimes very arrogant in your responses lately.

We see no responses from the so called users who like the new interface and users want to be able to change the color scheme which they had before.

You have failed to fix Audio snap and created another problem which renders it useless.  You jump in and answer questions when it suits you, and your team ignores completely serious questions.

If your company do not get your act together then cakewalk will cease to exist because the customer comes first not what you like.

When you don't like the truth you threaten to close the thread and expel the user. If that is the draconian measures you are now going take so be it but fix the issues that the customers request.

I have not upgraded because of the many issues and unless audio snap is fixed I will never upgrade. Their are hundreds who feel like me and now I speak out and whither you want to silence me by expelling me thats ok as well.

garvolt2002

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
]

Cakewalk designed the SONAR X1 UI and it is entirely the intellectual property of Cakewalk. Cakewalk can do whatever it wants to the UI, but changes take development time.

FWIW, many poeple do like the UI- me included - and have said so on this very forum. Anytime you overhaul something like this you have to go back and make some tweaks and you do this partly based on what some poeple feel like is missing from the old way. But I wouldn't say "so many people don't' like it" as many people really do like it.

Brendan this is not the way to respond to loyal customers, I feel you are very sometimes very arrogant in your responses lately.

brundlefly


Below are a couple of screenshots showing how bad the use of screen realestate can be in X1 compared to 8.5. These are two shots of the same template project in X1 and 8.5. In 8.5 on a 1680x1050 display, I can see all the most useful controls for 8 MIDI and Audio tracks and 4 buses, including:
 
M, S, R, Echo, Archive, Freeze, PRV Mode Layers Minimize, Maximize, Read, Write, Volume, Pan, Trim (Vel Offset), FX Bins, Input and Output (with full-length names), and Meters.
 
In X1, I get M, S, R,  Echo,  layers, Minimize and Meters.
 
If I drag the pane divider out another 1/2" or so in X1, I can also get the Edit Filter on Tracks. To get everything 8.5 offers in X1 without drastically increasing the width of the track header pane, I have to reduce the number of tracks and buses from 12 to 8.
 
If I do the same in 8.5, I can see every widget there is, including Key+ and Phase buttons which now require opening the Inspector in X1.
 
I can see sacrificing a little info to get larger, more readable/controllable widgets, but X1 seems to have sacrificed a lot for little gain, and even some loss of readability.
 
 
 
  I agree with you 1000%


In 8.5 if it looked too cluttered for you <sigh>... You could hide almost everything... You had a choice.

Now your choice is how much CAN I see... and it's disappointing. I'm old and having trouble with my eyes but I crowded my screen with tools to work better and got used to using them without reading... I work fast!

Now I'm constantly re-sizing to see and access things...

I like the new Inspector, but it's a lot of real-estate to see things I used to see without it! So I use it when I need but there we go again... MORE key strokes to do my work.

Yesterday's session here should have been completed in a few hours instead of a whole day/night... I worked from 10am to 3am with minimal breaks for eating/posting on this forum/etc... I shoudl have been finished long before dinner!

Keni