X2 Producer Unusable For "Me"

this post is very vaugue,theres no explaination of the crashes,just "what others are experiencing" ??
and pro channel related. ?

doesnt sound like you want help with this issue,because if you did you would spend a second to go into a little more detail and explain what is exactly going on.
not to mention you didnt even say what kind of interface your using.

im not sure what these so called "others" are experiencing but i can tell you this.
i havent had a crash yet and ive put this under hours of use.
projects filling the pro channels with effects.
one project had 27 tracks,pro channel on every one.

im not doubting you may have some problems but how do you start a thread with a title like this?
are you purposly trying to be detremental to cakewalk?

ive seen the techs in the forum asking questions,helping with any inquiries,caring.
this isnt right man.
you should really change this threads title.

Yeah,I must agree with CHARLIE ROY on changing the title!

I too had same problems. However, I did the following...

Turn off wifi.
Chkdsk
Defrag hard disks.
Install new patch.
Use basic graphics settings.
Clear out some old plugins.
Disable all non critical processes.
Overclokced the processors.

I think the patch fixed mine, as I thought I had installed it, but hadnt. I kept getting crashes. Once the patch was installed and overclokced I have had no more crashes..... Touchwood.

Quite right though as it is v annoying. You would think that testing would include running on various setups with various plugins. Basic testing approach. It is unacceptable to release it with these basic problems. It certainly has put me off buying any future releases or any Roland gear for that matter. It shouldn't be a matter of explaining everything in great detail on forums or filling in forms and reports if its buggered.

That said, when it runs, x2 is a great improvement and kinda what I have been waiting for , so do keep with it. It is worth it and gets rid of a lot of the long winded editing / mixing that drove a few of us mad.

Bristol_Jonesey

The trouble is, there are literally millions of different possible combinations of CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Hard Drives, settings, plugins etc.

And add to that the fact that peoples knowledge of the software is a little bit lacking at times... Understandably so, with the size of program we're dealing with here :-)

FBB- I too experience problems when I "preview" a lot of loops... Usually I get an "Out of Memory" error, which I believe somehow relates to the Picture Cache. Sometimes when I clear out this folder, I can listen to many more loops, but at other times it has little effect. And yet other times, my X2 might just "white out". So I'm still stumped on this one.
 
But with the new patch, making some performance tweaks, and changing my workflow up a bit (having to freeze most tracks after I get so far), the white-outs and crashes have been minimized. I also believe my system could be considered the bare minimum to run X2 these days.
 
Alas, I feel a system upgrade coming on.......

There are so many variables among users I'm surprised X2 runs at all. I'm having minor sporadic issues of which I'm not sure I'm the cause.

If I had the time and patience I'd zap my HD and do a clean install but the thought of re-installing all the other software makes me wanna cry.

As we go along we learn more and some of my plugs are in the wrong place.

X2 is much more user friendly than X1.

daveny5


All software has some bugs when first released so if you don't want to be a "beta tester", don't buy software right after its released. You should wait until the first update. You got a discount for being an early user so that's to make up for having to deal with new release issues. 

Or buy it at a discount and don't install it until the first update is available. That's what I did with X1.