X2 Is Wonderful!

OK I have to post this. I'm extremely happy with X2. I don't know what Cakewalk did, but I just have to say what a great job! I finally got around to installing X2 this evening and wow! There are so many little fixes and upgrades that SONAR is starting to finally feel like a really professional DAW. The new smart tool in the piano roll view is great, the zoom features in the track manager are amazing and the pro channel tools.. I love them! X2 solves a lot of stability issues I encountered in X1. I wish I could tell the dev team what a great job they did. X2 really is great! Thanks, Cakewalk!

Hey guys, excellent thing but your testimonies are in sharp contrast with the many "complaints" concerning bugs and stability issues since the X2 release  :

Have you not experienced bugs that MANY users have reported ?  Does the initial X2 version work fine for you or did you have to install the quickfix?

Bugs are a fact of life. They will be exterminated in time. They do not take away from what X2 offers. Its a great version.

I'm loving it too, like new zooming tools especially, and selections seem easier and more natural. 
So big plus 1 from me so far. Things may change if I hit a but, but not yet.

+1 as well,

no crashes so far and it just feels snappier and looks better,

well done Cake!

I find it quite stable - a couple times I had weird Assertions, but I just restarted my computer to reset memory and all was fine.  I have been using it on average about 12 hours a day, and there were literally only 3 times when I chose to restart due to some sort of something being a bit messed up.  That could have been also caused by my being too lazy to turn off things like antivirus or any other services or applications during my recording sessions, and doing things like playing Minesweeper while listening to playbacks.

Bottom line is that I believe it to be a SIGNIFICANT move in the right direction, and have truly enjoyed laying down tracks and working with all of the subtleties of the work flow improvements that have been made.

X1 was a MILESTONE release, for the complete redesign of the user interface, a rare and gutsy business decision by Cakewalk to make it easier for a larger group of folks to get their minds around using.  Most companies would have never invested so much time, effort, or money, in something that involved so much essentially transparency.  Changing the 'look and feel' of something generally never gets funded in the business world.

X2 has expanded on that, in a great way, and I am 100% behind where they are taking this.

Bob Bone

I have to agree... I am not having anywhere near the issues with X2 as with both X1 and 8.5.. Nice job bakers!

Jim

ProjectM


+1!

I really got into X1 from day one and have been using Sonar more than ever since I got it. X2 is a massive improvement on that - for me - and the only thing I miss is a deep audio editor so I don't have to use Soundforge for that anymore.

...Especially since it seems like Sony has all but abandoned Sound Forge.  (It's been about 3 yrs since v 10 came out.)  CW is trying to make Sonar so you really don't need much software outside their package (that's not going to work; I'm not entirely convinced about ProChannel yet), so a real audio editor would be great.
 
Anyway, I've actually had more crashes with X2 than X1, but I'm loving the X2 feature updates to death.  I didn't really get X1 up and running until about X1c.  I was going to wait a while on X2, but changed my mind and did the pre-sale.  I'm glad I did.  The new features take some of the tedium out of moving around and editing.  I didn't really like the Smart Tool until now.
 
And CW often adds new features in their bug updates.  Can't wait to see what's next.
 
Maybe one day they'll finally dump Radius for Elastique Pro...  (Watch any YouTube Cubase 6 video on tempo change: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeFdSDsjyu4 .  'Would remove offline mode and probably remove all those complaints about AudioSnap.)
 

No stability issues for me (haven't needed to d/l the quickfix). But I had no stability issues with X1 either. Agree this is a great upgrade; it's the little things they fixed that I appreciate the most so far.

Has anyone had a project that didn't load becauase two of the same vsti are loaded? I'm getting this error on some of my older projects and I'm wondering if it's because I'm using a 64-bit OS now and the 64-bit version of SONAR.