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And that's why I don't create an account on those types of general audio sites and rarely visit them unless I'm doing a specific search on something. Too much anger, speculation, bad info, trolling and outright viciousness. Shame though because there do seem to be some very smart and helpful people amongst the rabble.
 

 
Yeah, always helps to suit up in your best armor before you head into the arena!

I don't mind KVR's forums... sure, there are all sorts of flamers over there but with an open forum catering to the entire music spectrum, it's to be expected... and after viewing the last few pages I decided to post this...
 
X3??? In a word, AWESOME!!! Totally fricken unbelievably wonderful... I've been in a love/hate relationship with Sonar since Sonar 5 and I have to say that until the X series, I struggled to understand this powerful program... X1, though riddled with crashes/bugs... finally made sense to this humble songwriter, although random crashes still frustrated me... I have to admit, lots were stupid user errors (SUEs)...after all, I'm a songwriter not a technofile... but by X2 most of my frustrations vanished and having spent many hours on X3, I'M FRACKIN STOKED!!!! 

I'm in love... and I have barely scratched the surface of this beautiful creation... and to all you frustrated folks out there living with horrid memories... you do yourselves and others a disservice by ranting and trashing what you don't know... 

The bakers have outdone themselves... and I am ecstatic! I will create better songs, quicker and with more joy... and you can do the same or keep spewing about the past and ignore the opportunities to play with the most powerful and user friendly piece of kit ever imagined. 

btw, I just took a break awhile ago and the feedback over at the ole Cake forums is similar to mine... it's never been like this before... all earlier versions evoked both love and hate... this is different... really different... 

Badass Bakers! You Rock!   
 
And, while I know there will be many things to fix, frustrations and whatnot, I just want to reiterate, thanks and you deserve to be proud... Here's to the future!!!

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]

myconsumerclub
I just upgraded to x2 how is cake going to handle us guys who just got x2?

If you upgraded and got 50% off, the price will work itself out the same in most cases had you waited. It should make sense to you tomorrow.

I hope it does,,, because I'm one of those guys,,, ;)  I definately would have waited had I known a new version was coming so quickly.  I don't mind paying up, but hope it will be something fair.  I never even got to do a project in X2, because I'm still futzing with getting everything installed and getting my plugs ins and softsynths running.
 
ps,,, what's the secret sauce that jBridge has that bitBridge doesn't have??? 
I had to pony up $20 for jBridge to get Sampletank to work in X2. 

harmony gardens

I hope it does,,, because I'm one of those guys,,, ;)  I definately would have waited had I known a new version was coming so quickly. 


But you're not losing any money! Upgrade from pre-X2 SONAR PE to X2= $50, upgrade from X2 to X3=$149, upgrade from pre-X2 to X3=$199
 
In the end it's $199 for you whether you got the $50 upgrade deal or not!

How many times can the same people say the same thing? If all the participants just said their piece it would be about three pages long.
Unfortunately it contains posts by the only person in internet land that I detest so I think I won't bother seeing how the thread concludes.

Grum.