Thanks guys! .... I don't currently own any Cakewalk software. So, I wasn't sure if this was an upgrade from a previous version ... or if I could just load this Cakewalk SONAR X2 Producer (From X1 Producer Expanded) and just rock. The red flag here was that everybody else seemed to be asking $400-500 dollars for the program, yet Sweetwater is only asking $99.00. I figured it must have been just an upgrade. Thanks again. G

@Guitarzan5150

Do take a look at the comparison chart.

The X2 Essentials has the exact same audio engine and all of that - just does not have some of the upper-end inclusions.  But it is certainly much cheaper, and if you ever chose to upgrade after that you would get a discount moving from Essentials up to say Producer.

You can also download a free X2 demo, and play around with it for 30 days, to decide what you would actually use (Pro Channel, etc).  But to get you into X2, Essentials might be a place to start.  (but do the demo since it's free).

Hope that made sense, 

Bob Bone

Side note, and little known fact...
 
The Ray Stevens song "Guitarzan", of course, was a parody (an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation) of the early American character Tarzan who played a guitar while swinging through the trees. The idea came from listening to the line Bright stars and guitars and  in the old song Popcicles and Iciicles by the Murmaids written by David Gates of Bread fame.
 
Boring, I know.

I found out after I created my handle that a "Beepster" is apparently slang for a rabble rouser of sorts. Although I try not to behave that way here it is quite apt in general.

lulz

It's actually a play on my IRL nick. The avatar image is kind of how I feel on here. The curious little kitty beeping the nose of the big dogs. It's also sickeningly cute. :-D

 

"Smell my finger."

"Smell my finger."

 
I'm fairly certain that most dogs like that kind of thing.
 

arachnaut


I'm a bit confused about what's in the ProChannel suite in Sonar X2 Producer.
I have Sonar X1 Producer Expanded and just bought the upgrade to X2 with the pre-sale special today. 

I have most/all of the ProChannel tools, but not the extra Softube iLok stuff.

So, are there going to be new versions of the ProChannel devices or will the install of X2 Producer automatically give me a version of X2 Producer 'Expanded' with my current ProChannel stuff.

Or will the 'expanded' term just get dropped going forward?

Another question is about the download, when it comes. I hope it will be in pieces because I already have Dimension Pro, and Rapture (and Zeta 2) full versions, so I don't want to have to download all their samples again if I can help it. 

In other words, will the download be split in such a way that we can bypass anything we already have and not miss anything?

Otherwise, I might just order the box to get the DVDs and skip all the downloading...

EDIT: Please make sure that the main Producer software, at least, is isolated, so that we can download that quickly, and maybe get the boxed version later.

you can download it in sections. Do the custom install to avoid installing Rapture again. All the pro channel modules you have from X1 will work. there are some extra modules as well like console emulation. Breverb fits in the Pro Channel like a module too. and of course the FX chains fit within the pro channel.


There is additional content to download. mainly loops and stuff like that.. everything is broken down into smaller parts for downloading. congratulations on your upgrade.

stevec

"Smell my finger."

 
I'm fairly certain that most dogs like that kind of thing.
 

Woof.

You will have another download in your account to install the Pro Channel extras for X2.