LMAO

As much as X1 was a bust for me, X2 has been pretty good to me.

Admittedly my usage pattern has changed since retiring ie. I'm not as heavy a user at this time as when X1 was released.

when my new home is finished (2 months or so) and I finally get a studio again I'll be looking forward to getting deeper into Sonar X2? whatever version is around at that time; 

Well Charlie, you've already pissed me off. You have an AMD processor.... I work at Intel 

My SONAR X2 x64 is very stable too!

I had some strange things happen "crash" in the past but I found out how to fix it. If you experice instability with SONAR or other programs, try this out.

First check in Windows event log file? Do you find "error id 46 volmgr"?
'If you do,.... this will fix it!


Let's try these steps to change the settings of virtual memory only for 'C' drive and remove the settings to automatically manager paging file size for other drives.

a. Open System by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking System.
b. In the left pane, click Advanced system settings. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
c. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
d. Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, click Change.
e. Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box.
f. Under Drive [volume label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.
g. Select the drive and select no paging file and click set for all the drives except for C drive:

Set page file size as same as your installed RAM size, example: If you have 8126mb RAM set MAX pagefile to 8126 and minimum to same value 8126.
Windows will need to rebot your system..

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory

I just noticed something the last couple of days - just to add some positive experience here

I needed to open some old - old projects, created with version 5, 6 or whatever it was, OLD projects - to bounce out some backing tracks we use live. So I did the usual thing, save-as a new copy called "songtitle X2" so I don't mess up the original. Then started brushing up the tracks, adding new synths, tweaking sounds and so forth, add a bunch of Pro Channel effects. The only problem I had was that on all the old tracks, my default PC chain for Buses was inserted on the tracks rather than my default PC chain for tracks. Weird. No biggie. Then bounced out the stems and that was it.

What makes this a story worth telling is that with X1, this couldn't possibly happen without having a huge crash! And we're talking that big re-boot, everything hangs and milk goes sour crash. I developed a workaround that got me through that when I needed to but it took some time and effort. I'm happy to see that X2a is much happier with pre X-series projects, even with old 32-bit plugins not installed any more.

I have to say, since the A-patch I haven't been messing too much with Sonar because of heavy workloads elsewhere. But so far I have no problems with it.

I keep reading about how some people are having serious issues, but not so much what they are exactly. I've not been here much the past few months. Is there a list or a run down in a thread somewhere? I have run into minor bugs which I work around and can't actually remember what they are ATM.

Anyway, a huge positive for X2 - it changed everything

X2 was a problem for me until the initial quick fix took care of the main issue I was having. X2a has been rick solid. The only crash I've had was from one of those Dim Pro patches mentioned up thread. On my machine it seems to be the drum loops that crash Dim Pro in 64 bit, probably because they contain rex files. This has been happening since 8.53, but that's another story for another time. I just did a two song CD for a local band using about 40 tracks per song, Pro Channel on each with console emulation, plus some 3rd party plug-ins like Drumagog, Guitar Rig, etc. Not one crash or even a hiccup. The project was started on a Q6600 machine and finished on an i7 machine. X2a was stable on both builds. Overall I'm very happy with this version. Does it have a few quirks? Yes, but so does Pro Tools MP9 for me especially when using ReWire with Reason on some of my MIDI stuff.

Laugh Out LOUD!

You guys are a trip!

stevec


Good tip, Freddie.   I've been setting a fixed virtual memory size for about 15 years now, though I originally came across this from a CAD/3D modeling perspective vs. DAW use.   But either way, removing dynamic virtual memory resizing from the list of Windows tasks always seemed like a good thing to do.
 

Thanks and that's cool!
That was a nice trick on XP32 system making it work smoother.. On XP 1,5 times the RAM on board.
 
Best regards
Freddie

Bub

 XP x64 which was never really released. 

I guess it was ... 


Cheers ! 


V

This thread is another example of a few people adding drama to this forum daily. Not much to read here anymore. Someone says I like sonar - the handful of love/hate sonar folks jump in and call bs on the op. Then you grab the popcorn and read the rest like a bad re-run of the karate kid #23. The core group that hates on Sonar to the most boring place in a reader's mind is and has driven helpful and interesting people away from the forum. To my amazement, even attacking Craig Anderton from the safety of their big bad keyboard last week. What a travesty!! We are honored to have Craig here to share his deep knowledge of the music industry and recording knowledge. I'm ashamed.

With that said - this type of thread should have been a harmless everyday type thread where someone wanted to share their experience with like minded people. Good luck with the duck dynasty bash sonar for sport folks. Like highway robbers, they lay in wait. Anxious to see a thread such as this one and jump in with their message of being a victim. Hope that is working out for all of you that this applies to.

Boring...

  I truly believe that positive threads are very important. 
  When I was shopping for a new audio interface, my first choice was the TC Electronics Konnekt 48. Before a purchase I've made a habit of checking out the user forums to see if there were many complaints. I ended up going Focusrite instead of TC due to complaints about the pots failing.
   I'm not lying about my positive experience with X2. 
   I would highly doubt that Cakewalk would have there software fail on every system that they tested it on and release it to the public anyway.
   I'm sure there are plenty of users not having issues using X2.

   I would think that we would want to expand Sonar's user base. The more success Cakewalk has the more resources they have to make it even better.

    This forum has helped a lot of users with issues . If you have an issue and want help with it you should look here. I even think you should come here to **** & moan sometimes. But to watch the same people come in here and try to derail every positive thread, its getting very annoying. 

I would like to have the forum divided into a couple of sections. 1) General discussion 2) Community Support

I enjoy learning more about the software and don't mind hearing about roadblocks and solutions or that there are no solutions. However, I would probably spend 90% of my time on the Community Support forum if it existed.

Right now we have a mix of coffee house, general discussion and community support. It's a mess. 

I just wanted to add that I have had absolutely zero problems with X1 or X2 either.

Edited for TOS violation. 


Please review the Terms of Service http://forum.cakewalk.com/tos.aspx

Edited for TOS violation. 


Please review the Terms of Service http://forum.cakewalk.com/tos.aspx