I'm mostly happy:

Pros:
It's stable
Workflow generally much improved (with some rough spots)

Negatives:
I think I've personally submitted at least 5 (if not more) bugs to Cakewalk with small bits of functionality not working. Mostly relating to Snap, PRV, Key Bindings, etc.

Funky Bot - I did get 2 responses so far to bugs I submitted, so I can vouch for them working on things.

Hope you are able to work despite whatever issues you have found thus far, 

Bob Bone

Out of all the years I have used cakewalk (pro audio) and Sonar this by far has been the best upgrade for me. I am really happy with it. I usually don't upgrade right away, but this time I am glad I did.

So far I am happy with X2 it will play all my old projects without problems, I have not yet made a new project so have really not gone through it enough.

Thumbs up Cake. X2 is the best of the best!

X2 happened to land while I'm in a mixing phase - a little editing, but mostly importing X1 projects that were done except for mixes. 

So, I'm REAL happy because of 1) Auto-Zoom (I love that feature), and 2) automation lanes. Give how much fader movement I do, that's huge for me.

As to stability, I had two crashes when I opened a pro channel module in console view while a project was playing, but couldn't repeat the crash. The Quick Fix seems to have fixed that. I did have one freeze since doing the Quick Fix caused by clicking on the Master module (again, while the file was playing). But I've logged a lot of hours with only these incidents, so I'm not finding the stability problematic. 

Is there any change or improvement in how X2 handles 32bit plugins, or is it the same as X1? 

Is the handling of 32bit plugins any WORSE in X2? 

How does J-Bridge work in X2, who is actually using it in X2? 

Many thanks. 

-G&G

Since the Quick Fix X2 has been running well for me so far.  Overall I'm pretty happy with X2.

Dan

I'm a fanboi, even though I hate that term, especially when it is spelt like that.

I am loving the whole X2 concept, the GUI, Lanes, PC.

My 22 track MIDI Soft Synth only test track is going strong and I am totally happy with X2 in that area.

I've spent the last couple of days concentrating on recording Audio and utilising TH2 on my guitar. That test project has a MIDI drum folder with the usual multi-tracks. On top of that I've got four audio tracks, each with an instance of TH2.

For some reason my CPU core usage has gone a bit weird. The core spread in my MIDI only test project is as expected, with my first core running at arounf 50% and the other 7 at 30%. My new, and quite small audio test project has the first core running at 50% (already) with the remaining 7 hardly reaching 5%. So I don't know what is going on there.

Anyway, I should probably have not mentioned that here, but there you have it.

I suppose that the bottom line, at this moment in time, is I'm sort of happy in some areas and not so happy in others.

^^^ Reported

I haven't used it that  much to record so far  but I like all the improvements, I had one white screen and I am not even sure what I was doing when it happened and I haven't installed the quick fix yet.
So far very happy, best Sonar yet!

Bristol_Jonesey


^^^ Reported

Banned - thank you.

I'm not one to push the envelope,  so not a good example...but put me on the happy side.

I like the Breverb and TH2 plugins a lot.  The piano view and smart tools is a give and take for me, I'm adjusting.  I wish staff view was better as I really like looking at a score while orchestrating/arranging.

I have not had a project yet that I could take advantange of auto lanes.  I'm looking forward to that.

Very happy and no issues at all except for what I just posted in another thread and that could very well be user error.

Overall a good experience better than X1. I love the lanes and the auto focus. I have had crashes but it has been when I have the track going and inserting a synth. Probably not smart.