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Karyn


My internet at home is still down.   So much for downloading a day before everyone else!

The cable guy still hasn't shown up?
 
I'm holding off until I get Win7 and I don't have any issues with X1. What I'd really like to do is build a 64bit machine first to house X2, but that'll take some time.
 

He's been.  Very nice young man..
 
Of course, at the time he came it was working...
So he replaced the f connectors on every piece of coax he could find, replaced the isolators and splitters, gave me a new modem, ran extensive test on the entire system.  He gave me a new remote for the cable TV box and two free Wireless N USB dongles (usefull).
He was here for 1.5 hours and couldn't find anything wrong.  Well he wouldn't, it was working at the time...
 
So he went away and the next day it failed again!
 
I've kept a log of precisely when it fails, usually late evening but it's getting earlier, and I've come to the conclusion there is a component suffering thermal failure in the street cabinet.  As night falls and the temp drops my internet fails.  The past few days we've been hit by cold weather and the net has failed earlier..
 
Waiting to see what they'll try next.

I'm looking to upgrade this time.
 
I see there's a few teething issues but nothing like the heartache X1 inflicted on it's users.
 
The biggest thing for me would be to have fx-chains available from the pro-channel so the settings I'm being presented with relate to the track I'm working on which is one of the things I hate about working with countless VST windows and trying to work out which track they relate to.
 
Alternative take lanes is a concept of got used to in other things now so I know I'm going to like that feature, I couldn't, and still can't get layers to work like it seems they are meant to so that will be welcome.
 
I fully expect many of the quirks and foibles that migrate from version to version to still be there but you never know one or two those may even work as expected by now.
 
It might have to wait 'til Christmas though if I can't get in via the buy X1 and get X2 free upgrade through remaindered stock in the retail channels.

Biggest +1 surprise fix for me was the "all notes selected" in a MIDI clip on entering PRV.

IOW, in X1 they were all selected before you did anything upon entering PRV, now in X2 they are not.

That was a welcomed fix for me.

mike_mccue


If ProTools 11 64bit comes out before that I'm going to have JimR build me a new super computer running Win7 64bit and do what all my friends have advised me to do for the past 15+ years. I'm gonna, begrudgingly, join the club. 

I did this already in preparation for PT11. Running PT10.3 now.

I *want* a new JimR computer, but I can't really make 8.5 tax my current JimR computer.

I bought PT9 native and it is a bit too much for the same current computer so I passed on 10.

I figure if I wait til the last minute for 11 I can get a good match up and learn to be happy and I'll also have 8.5 running like it's greased lightning.

If I ever get to the point where I can read the lettering on X I may not ever get to the point where I buy 11 and then I'll just get another JimR computer simply because I want too.

best regards,
mike

I feel your pain Mike. I want to keep 8.5.3 as well as put X2 in the box. I need a bigger hard drive or a new "beast" DAW. I should really get a new DAW.

I'm a sucker for update but if X2 were fairly rock solid and it had these three things:

1. Folders in Folders
2. True full color customization
3. Drums maps that allow a solo of a multi-out track without having to solo the MIDI first

I might consider it my final resting place for a version or two.

Sadly I'd say its gonna be X3 to X5 before I see and of the above features. So the Bakers get my $99 for (prolly) a few more releases.

3. Drums maps that allow a solo of a multi-out track without having to solo the MIDI first

 
Drum maps have always had the potential to be a monster feature and yet it always seems to be overlooked.
 
Let alone drum mapping it's one of the most useful midi routing matrixes on any DAW and yet it is like trying to plait soot setting it up as it stands.
 
Yet they spent time fitting midi tracks with those things that vomit an endless stream of midi garbage onto your track called 'Arpeggiators'.
 
 

Arps, I never liked them. Too mechanical. As for the drum maps, wouldn't need an instrument definition for every drum module-kit-machine to get it right?
There's alot of teeth nashing and wailing going on in the VS700 forum about a lack of intregration with the new features in X2 and the V700C. We all want and find something that's not clicking. We'll get Bapu to write us some code.