The only times I had crashes in x2 was when using th2 producer which does not work for me....yet, or when I had Windows Defender enabled. Thought I was having system problems till I remembered I had turned on defender to download some updates. If you have not already reported your problems to Cake and submitted your feature requests please do and feel free to solicit addition support for those requests and bug reports. Peace.

mike_mccue


SONAR 8.5 is going to become the coveted package... It will become the a vintage "Neve" console of the DAW world.

X2 has to settle for pretending it's a make believe SSL.


People will be hoarding old Win 7 boxes and running their favorite DAW far in to the future while SONAR X users will be waiting for their next vital upgrade.


We've seen this happen in the audio equipment market time and time again.

It's why old amps cost more than new amps.

It's why old mics cost more that new mics.

I'm starting to realize it's entirely normal for companies in the music equipment industry to ruin their reputation while trying to prove that the item that associated them with excellence is yesterdays worn out news.




I'm glad that SONAR 8.5 was excellent.

I'm glad I have 2 licenses for 8.5... cause you can't buy it new anymore and Cakewalk says's it's illegal to buy it used too.


Vintage DAW.

It's the next big thing.



all the best,
mike

-1 <-- Means I do not agree with any of the above

The only drawback to Take Lanes is the real estate that they take up.

In my studio there will almost never be more than 5 takes so it's not really a problem.  If someone can't get it by then we move on.

If we decide to continue with more takes, the previous ones are deleted.  No reason to keep crap that will never be used.

There are also times where a track is put together piece by piece. On those it works similar to the above.  Delete the crap, keep what's good.  So there is never more than just a few takes ever.

I never use the mute tool.  I comp by splitting clips, and moving them to a new lane. Once the track is comped, I may delete all other lanes unless there is something there that I may want.

A big +1 to FBB's post - I think his suggestions completely sum up my desire for how to enhance Track Lanes.
 
An no, I certainly will not be hoarding anything to run SONAR 8.x.  I for one haven't opened 8.x in over a year, and have no desire to do so.  Yo, just keepin' it real dawg. 
 

kevo


The only drawback to Take Lanes is the real estate that they take up.

In my studio there will almost never be more than 5 takes so it's not really a problem.  If someone can't get it by then we move on.

If we decide to continue with more takes, the previous ones are deleted.  No reason to keep crap that will never be used.

There are also times where a track is put together piece by piece. On those it works similar to the above.  Delete the crap, keep what's good.  So there is never more than just a few takes ever.

I never use the mute tool.  I comp by splitting clips, and moving them to a new lane. Once the track is comped, I may delete all other lanes unless there is something there that I may want.

i find that with 15 tracks or more .as i seem to have been stuck mixing alot these days its a new track per drum  track i avoid lanes. now x1 was fine.
 they should find the med between the x1 and x2 lanes both have good and bad options, and if corecered would be great for work flow
 

What I did was, I started creating folders and I just clone the track I want to work with now in that folder. I'll clone it say ... 10 times, then archive those tracks until I do a take, then delete it all when I'm done chopping and putting it all on the main track.

When I chop it all up, all I have to do is hold Shift and drag the clip I want directly in to place on the track that I want to be the final one and that's it.

I do agree with Mike about 8.5 as well. They had something really special with it. I don't think it's all that far fetched to see some people keeping equipment to run it on. I still have a 486 with DOS 6.22 on it that I use for games from that era.

I still have my old P4 Win XP system with Nuendo installed. Needs some TLC but I doubt I'll ever let go of it. Curious to see what I can make it do now that I actually kind of know what the heck I'm doing. lol

Would be great if the next version allowed the user to select how they use lanes (either similar to previous version or new versions) ?   Personally, I liked how it worked in version 5 (went from 5 to x1, so I don't know how version 6-10 worked). everything was right there, a right click and whalah! very little navigation. I got to be very proficcient with it.  Cakewalk? Are you listening?!

i think the guys who create features for sonar are trying to hard to make it more quick moving for fastpace workflow
 if ya watch any tut there all so seasoned with every feature. 
 i just try to lay a good song no hurry to have 6 drum tracks open close as groups , i can take my time and open them as needed
 things seem harder since 8-5 like the tools box before was fine, now its more work since i havent bound the keys, i know you change that . i think back to basic sonar setup??to bad thats not a option with lanes??
 new lanes or old lanes,x1 and 8-5 together even

kevo

mike_mccue


SONAR 8.5 is going to become the coveted package... It will become the a vintage "Neve" console of the DAW world.

X2 has to settle for pretending it's a make believe SSL.


People will be hoarding old Win 7 boxes and running their favorite DAW far in to the future while SONAR X users will be waiting for their next vital upgrade.


We've seen this happen in the audio equipment market time and time again.

It's why old amps cost more than new amps.

It's why old mics cost more that new mics.

I'm starting to realize it's entirely normal for companies in the music equipment industry to ruin their reputation while trying to prove that the item that associated them with excellence is yesterdays worn out news.




I'm glad that SONAR 8.5 was excellent.

I'm glad I have 2 licenses for 8.5... cause you can't buy it new anymore and Cakewalk says's it's illegal to buy it used too.


Vintage DAW.

It's the next big thing.



all the best,
mike

-1 <-- Means I do not agree with any of the above

+1