X2a Frustration Increases - Please Excuse This Post

My apology in advance as I know I've done this before...
 
The constant frustrations of working with the new X paradigm is driving me crazy...  Especially when I need to edit in front of clients...
 
The zooming characteristics (not only my 'regular' complaints re: Lanes) are so rediculous (for me) that I just don't eblieve how hard it is to work in this program compared to the earlier versions (8.5.3).
 
I know there are many people very happy with it and finding work a pleasure, but there are also people saying that about doing MIDI in PT! (OK, not many... ;-))
 
Sonar always set itself apart from the pack not only in the feature set it offered, but in it's extraordinary ability to do many things in many ways... this has been seriously curtailed in the name of the new GUI and the Touch abilities.
 
An example of questionable? Why is it when I open set a new track to Lanes Open, does it revert to lanes closed when I record and give me all the empty Lanes.... When I again click on the Lane Display button after such, the display shifts and displays only the bottom most Lane at the top of the screen (all tracks and earlier layers are scrolled up/off screen and I must re-adjust the display). Is this really somehow a common need for others?
 
Please excuse my still constant irritation with these changes to Sonar... I understand that there are also happy users, but why couldn't this have been addressed? Is Roland truly so oblivious to these issues as they are making Sonar seem/become?
 
Solutions? Of course there are many, but meanwhile my life is passing by and I continue to be unhappy with a product that I've always depended on....
 
Sorry for the rant...
 
Thanks for the moment, and now I go back to editing in pain...
 
Keni
 
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Ha! I almost forgot the immediate reason prompting me to post...
 
Ver often when I have snap disabled and the options are set to by/measure with smart grid disabled, clicking N to enable snap makes the settings change to 1/4??? I don't get it?
 
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Keni
 

I don't know.... I might die of apoplexy! ;-)

(I haven't checked your link yet...)

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<ouch> That's a real head-bangers party for sure! ;-)

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ps- hope all gets better for you.
peace.

Rant all you want. I certainly don't mind. I like to be reminded that I'm not all alone. It's things like this that bring improvements, not praise. If Cakewalk thought they were putting out a flawless product, they may shelve it for the moment and go for the next shiny object while we suffer in silence. In this case, however, I wonder if they'll shelve it anyway and go for shinier objects. 

Fortunately, I've had a pretty good weekend with Sonar. I've even had 32-bit Waves plug-ins running right alongside the 64-bit plugins in Sonar and not a single crash. THIS is what frustrates me right now. Intermittent issues.    .....well, and Take Lanes.

Yeah, zooming is not good for me. I end up having to use Ctrl+Arrow keys or left-click the +/- buttons on the screen. Using scroll-wheel is awful.

The editor for me, other than the fact that it's supposedly non-destructive, is one of the worst I've used in the last 10 years. This is no longer a learning-curve adjustment observation, either. I'm pretty fast with it now, and I still have issues (mostly with unpredictability). It's even worse in Take Lanes (very buggy). I can't trust it at all. I have to always go back and scrutinize every edited part individually to make sure that the edit was indeed done and correct. I never felt I had to do this with DP, Cubase, or even Soundforge. 

And for anyone who argues that those programs have their own fair share of bugs in those same areas and we should just accept this is an advocate of keeping it that way.