SuperG
I couldn't afford a Gibson, for my first guitar, just recently purchased, I bought an ESP LTD Viper 330. I't a really sharp looking take on an Gibson SG. The Les Paul style just didn't grab me.

I'll take my personally customized cheap Mexican Fender Strat with Carvin pickups over an overpriced Les Paul anyday. 
 

TerraSin

djwayneWell last night I tried updating my East West Symphonic Orchestra Gold program to the Play 4 engine...My whole program got corrupted and had to be re-installed. I'm doing that right now. Luckily I have the factory disks and I don't have to download anything...it just easier to re-install than to fix the problem. Also my Ivory program was on a drive that I didn't like and want to re-install that too. Here again I have the disks right here and it's not that big of a job to re-install.

This is why I'm so happy that CCC2 Pro came on an external drive with the libraries to all their current products on it. Installing the 120+ DVDs I got with CCC really sucked. Already made a backup of the drive on another 2gb drive just in case. :)

I've been fighting with the Play 4.0 all day with no luck, it won't show up in X3, so I re-installed Play 3.0 and at least it shows up in Sonar X3, however it'll find, but won't load instruments for some reason....East West software is good when it works, but when it doesn't, it's really a pain in the neck.
 
The Ivory program installed and started working properly right away.

I ordered the boxed set for X2.. and never even opened the shipping box..lol

Got mine today..That wasn't too bad. Since there was no way I could get past disc 3. Kept getting errors and blank pages.

And Whaddaya know ,,,they send me the X3 basic box Not the Producer Set. The red tape to correct this is amazing for a company that never copy protected their SW. They sent a document I had to sign to ensure I destroyed X3 package they sent (instead of  sending a return tag) I had to call back to get an Return Authorization for a product I "promised" to destroy on paper, send that back,  THEN pray they will send the correct version.........Hmmm I wonder if Gibson has taken over already, 
 
Being a Yamaha Specialist who uses Cakewalk over Cubase I think I should give Cubase another go round,,,I don;t think after 28 years of buying this SW things will get better under Gibson.
 
Downloading was an option but I ususaly get the boxes within a couple days and DID!! Only the serial numbers didn't match up with what I bought and thats when I knew there was a problem. 
 
And just as I predicted.....X3B is already out...

yup, worth the 30 bucks IMo

another +1 for the box .
I ordered my X3 Producer edition Monday afternoon and decided to wait until the box showed up ..
it gave me some time to read up on the forum and watch a few product videos .
my upgrade showed up today and i couldn't be happier ...
even on a brand new computer , it still took a few hours to install the program ....
then I went and downloaded the X3b update 
the  update took about a half hour to download ....436 MB ?
there is no way I would have felt comfortable trying to download the whole 4 disks worth of program and data....
Yeah , I like having the box ...it's worth it to me 
 
Kenny