Thats pretty strange. Have you tried resetting your audio configuration to defaults? 
I suggest that you call  support since can help you troubleshoot it. Its likely to be a configuration issue. 

Man, that's a shame. All these complaints are making me very hesitant to install the patch. I've still got the first release of X2 running and although I've noticed some minor glitches it's been running fairly smoothly. I may just install the Quickfix and leave it at that until X2b. I'm assuming all this is because the focus got put on implementing the Win8/touchscreen stuff which I have no use for. I also see from the list of fixes that the one major issue I was having doesn't seem to have been addressed which is the crazy selection problem. Trying to select or highlight a single clip or section selects a bunch of other stuff making edits impossible. I've resorted to locking all tracks until I need to make an edit.

So I guess... yeah I'll be a malcontent and hope the b patch is already getting worked on. PLEASE focus on stuff that affects us 7 users. 

kthxbye

Win 7 64 here and I can only report better performance and less/no audio glitches.

If I can find the time maybe I'll create a rollback point just to check it out but I'm not very smart and have never really done a rollback so I'm concerned I'll screw it up and have to start from scratch. :-/

Come to think of it I guess if things get wacky I could just completely uninstall and reinstall seeing as how I've got all the exe's sitting on my desktop... but again that my bungle me up because of all the different elements.

I highly recommend a rollback point. Also, I really don't like calling support--wasn't a very good experience in the past, but Webex could be useful. Sidenote: Using ASIO Driver Mode doesn't recognize my MOTU 24 i/o even though the MOTU supports ASIO.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
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Thats pretty strange. Have you tried resetting your audio configuration to defaults? 
I suggest that you call  support since can help you troubleshoot it. Its likely to be a configuration issue. 

Thanks for chiming in, Noel.  Not sure whom you were responding to, but you seem to be addressing my issues as well.  It's very possible you are right, but I've checked all my configurations--I actually write them all down--and they're the same for X2 and X2a.  I have an unsubstantiated suspicion that the update optimized things for Win 8, but introduced performance issues for Win 7.  Again, that is pure speculation on my part.  I could be totally wrong, but hope others with Win 7 64 will report their experiences.
 
Not sure when to call support over the holidays, but I have to keep working every day including Christmas, so I've rolled back to X2.

Beepster


Come to think of it I guess if things get wacky I could just completely uninstall and reinstall seeing as how I've got all the exe's sitting on my desktop... but again that my bungle me up because of all the different elements.

It's not too hard to uninstall and reinstall.  I did that just to keep things clean (making sure to delete the registry keys for X2).  The whole process took me about an hour and a half, with hardly sitting in front the computer.  If you already have the installation files for X2 on your hard drive, it's a cakewalk.

Maybe Cakewalk could offer patches much like Microsoft does Service Packs, as separate installs at least until Cakewalk gets better at catching some of these issues before releasing new code. Or, possibly separate Windows 7 and Windows 8 versions somehow. The latter I highly recommend. I agree with Saxon1066 that introducing Windows8 features may be causing more trouble for Windows7 users. I sustain Saxon's comment that this is pure speculation, but the Windows8 enhancements DO seem to be the defining attribute here. 80% or more of the bug fixes seem pretty obscure, and many others reported in the forums went untouched or not replicated. One thing I'm having issues with today regarding X2a is while trying to tweak a guitar part using the Looping function (next to the NowTime window in the Control Bar) and setting the loop points is, Sonar X2a seems to have serous issues getting all the audio to correctly play in the first 5 seconds or so, and it's not reporting drop-outs. If the guitar part I'm tweaking is less than 10 seconds, I'm now having to set my loop start point well before the actual guitar part plays so that the overall mix is playing fully before the guitar part comes in. This reminds me of the days of sync'ing ADAT playback, when one ADAT machine might delay playback by a second or two while it's synchronizing to the Master ADAT machine.

For me it took a couple tries to get X2a installed. I too have found my system slowed and long load times are now the norm. I find this strange because after the initial X1 debacle I had everything working well and smooth under expanded, and then X2. I'm thinking it's got to be my specific system. Maybe my i7 is too old, maybe my ram is out of date, I don't know. What I do know is that I'm not buying another system to make X2a work better. I'll roll back to X2 or go in another direction. Next year we get X3.