aixmusique
Hey guys, is X3 rock solid? Did they improve it in comparison with X2a?
Thanks a lot!

Although I did have a stability problem for a couple days, I traced it to a possible corrupted download of the X3b patch. Since I rolled it back to X3a, I can throw the kitchen sink at it and it just keeps on ticken. If I have time, I'll re-download the X3b patch or maybe just wait for X3C.
 
Walt

How do you rollback? Just curious to know.

Since I upgraded my GREEN C drive to an SSD this week, not even a hiccup. Running perfectly here. But, until I made that change, I had various problems. So, it will depend on YOUR setup I think.

Very stable for me. I had all kinds of freezes, audio drop-outs with X2. Not a prob yet, with X3b...

What about an update of X2a ---> X2b with that built in stability CW?

I'm one of the people who had very few problems with X2a, so stability wasn't much of an issue. However, I agree with the comments about X3 being "snappier" and "smoother." I believe what happened is someone at Cakewalk took SONAR apart, sprayed it with WD-40, then put it back together again.

Meanwhile I haven't yet had a crash or freeze. I would have expected at least some "new update" hiccups or something. Very encouraging.

Geez, Craig. You'd figure they'd give you Moderator status at this point. ;-)

equality
What about an update of X2a ---> X2b with that built in stability CW?

Well I'm not a programmer, so I may be totally off base here, but it seems that Cakewalk did a whole lot of work under the hood in going from X2 to X3. If they put the same amount of work into X2a, then I assume they'd have to charge for an X2b update and at that point, it would probably make more sense to update to X3.
 
The only stability problems I experienced with X2 occurred if I tried to apply V-Vocal to individual takes in Take Lanes, but it didn't happen enough for me to reproduce it. So my fix was just to drag the clip that needed V-Vocal processing into its own track. The other issue was the audio "motorboating"/freeze if I did lots of moving loop points around while Sonar was looping. My fix there was to remember to stop Sonar periodically and re-start when playing back a looped section over and over. Any bug is annoying, but at least for me those weren't show-stoppers.

satyatunes
How do you rollback? Just curious to know.

I used System Restore to go back to a date previous to the installation of the X3b patch. It in the start menu under: all programs/accessories/system tools/system restore.
This tool is useful if you've installed some software and things go bad.

ah ok, In X1 days they had some kind of utility that did the trick. I thought you found something similar. All is well here so no need of rollback at this point.