Will there be additional features in future versions of X1

or will bug fixes be the only thing that will be baked?  I'm leaning towards upgrading to X1 but from following the forum, a lot of folks have not upgraded and are holding out for their own reasons.  I would like to see more features be introduced to X1 which appears to be very bare bones in my own opinion.  I'm not sure if it's the marketing but it doesn't look like a lot was added since 8.5.   But a lot of folks seem to be sold on Skylight, the new GUI and the Prochannel which may sell me on X1 along with it being easier to learn and use over time.  So here's hoping that a future version of X1 will be similar to what 8.5 was to 8.0 and hopefully it will be a complimentary update similar to what Spectrasonic is doing with Omnisphere.

So in my case, I can stick with the feature rich stable version of 8.5.3 or upgrade to the bare bones, buggy version of X1 and wait for the X1b update in March that's been mentioned -- hoping that Cakewalk will also implement some new features along the way to make it a more feature rich DAW with lots of bells and whistles.   I have to try and convince myself that X1 will have everything I need to make some decent recordings based on only a few new features which may just be good enough for the time being.  As you can see, it's been hard to get be sold onto X1 because of the lack of lots of new features and the cover art being very bland looking.  But I realize it's what's under the hood that revs up the music.

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  So here's hoping that a future version of X1 will be similar to what 8.5 was to 8.0 and hopefully it will be a complimentary update similar to what Spectrasonic is doing with Omnisphere.

-- hoping that Cakewalk will also implement some new features along the way to make it a more feature rich DAW with lots of bells and whistles.   I have to try and convince myself that X1 will have everything I need to make some decent recordings based on only a few new features which may just be good enough for the time being. 

In my opinion 8.5 to 8 was nearly what 7 was to 6. It was not just an update. So my guess is that X2 will be to X1 what 8.5 was to 8. New features will surely be introduced. I'm almost sure Cakewalk will keep the yearly upgrades coming, but the name will be X2,3... I guess. No new features for X1 in 2012, I assume.
 
X1 being "bare bones"??? The forums are full of debate on the radically changed workflow and GUI.
I haven't tried it, but it does NOT  sound like a small change to me. The main focus in the magazines reviewing X1 seems to be on this change.

If you use Audio Quantize, you'll want to wait atleast until X1b.  As of X1a, quantize audio is broken and doesn't do anything. Found out the hard way...

+1000000000000 on the screensets BTW. They alone are IMHO worth the upgrade.

Instant switches to 9 other different customised work views, tweak/edit and more importantly instantly jump back to where you were, keeps workflow for me smooth and er...... flowing.  The greatest thing about X1 IMHO.

I would rather have them fix what they've got than get another VST plugin or whatever.  They seem to be so CLOSE yet so far to making this thing really sweet (IMHO).  The staff view STILL needs some fixin' and, as has been pointed out many times, the quantize needs to be fixed.  Also, given my screen resolution, some scroll bars need to be added, in particular to the Inspector and Control bar.  But these have all been mentioned before  Having said that, what new features (other than tweaking or fixing the ones they have) do you think would be nice to have?

Living Room Rocker


There will be no more features added to X1 in future version as long as SONAR is referred to X1.

So would you and most X1 users be content with the most current version and its features if Cake never released any new future versions?

I referred to X1 as being bare bones because it introduced a number of its own features but carried over all or most of the features that were bundled with previous versions of Sonar.  So in a sense, just the X1 features alone would make it bare bones but packaged as a whole it's feature rich.  I think once we get to X2 or X3, they will introduce a lot more of their own features and the X plate won't be as bare.

What about features for touch screen and other input devices.

the funny thing is that when i was reading the X1 review from both Future Music UK and Computer Music UK, both of them were stating the fact that there are no new features in X1 except prochannel, but they were so amazed of how they have improved the workflow, the aesthetics and stability. well...... I don't know what tests they run over there, if they do at all.