Being in my home studio working with X2 is my happy place.
  If I had looks and wealth I'd probably have a better happy place but...

I'm happy, hope you're happy too...

 
Thanks, I am happy with SONAR.  
 
 
 
PS... Ashes aside, I hear that Tom is too.   

Yes I'm happy. Any issues I've had were 3rd party combinations of things where you're just asking for a crash.

I'm happy with X2a, and I hate myself for it.

I can still measure a small performance hit from X2 to X2a, and still see various quirks, some of which I still curse at, but I'm at least able to use X2a. I just have to open a whole new session/template for each take of a song to keep X2a from dropping out audio during recording.

I wish I could have had the X2a patch without "new features".

The winds aren't strong, but I'm sailing.

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I can still measure a small performance hit from X2 to X2a, and still see various quirks, some of which I still curse at, but I'm at least able to use X2a. I just have to open a whole new session/template for each take of a song to keep X2a from dropping out audio during recording.

I wish I could have had the X2a patch without "new features".  I just swapped over to newer Intel motherboard and upgraded to a 3770 series Quad-Proc (8 thread). Upgraded RAM to 1600Mhz to match what the MB and proc can do, and I still see a performance hit in X2a vs X2. 

The winds aren't strong, but I'm sailing.

OOPS! I Quoted myself vs. Editing. The board doesn't allow me to delete?  

Anyway, I added this text: I just swapped over to newer Intel motherboard and upgraded to a 3770 series Quad-Proc (8 thread). Upgraded RAM to 1600Mhz to match what the MB and proc can do, and I still see a performance hit in X2a vs X2.

PS... Ashes aside, I hear that Tom is too.

 
:-)
 
Funk to funky.
 
BTW Steve: do you work with a guy name R. Scotti? (R being an initial for his first name)

Went to X2 64 in Win 7. Took the jump to X2A 64 in Win 8.  I have had a few small issues, but I have had about as many issues on my iPhone5 to compare to a very different technology.  Each of the small issues was directly related to my video card - once I downloaded an update and it fixed the problem, I bought newer technology - the card was 3 years old. Each time I changed to a new OS, I built with a new set of hard drives and picked up the latest drivers for everything.  I haven't loaded anything other than Sonar and other third party effects other than OS and drivers. I only connect to the internet to get downloads from these companies - so I can run without anti virus, but I am dilligent in staying off the internet on that box.   Its a DAW only. I average 12 to 16 channels of recorded data and the same amount for midi data for comparisons.  I am kind of old school in that usually retake instead of edit - fixing it in the mix is not something that appeals to me. ALL that said, I am a very happy camper.

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BUMP! I've been extremely happy with all Sonar releases but SX2a is by far the best release for me. 

LOL  I love the title of the post!!!

Had to look cause my daughter always sings that in a song to us,

"If your happy and ya know it-Shake your meds"  

Terrible getting old and having a pharmacy to keep going