yes, I think now they take us for idiots.
Dan (Cakewalk Support)  had predicted that this version was good, a little words from Dan,  now this makes me smile:

"I can assure that SONAR X2 is a superior program to SONAR X1.  SONAR X1 was a premature leap into the realm of modern DAW's but since that leap we have made many adjustments in the past two years. Since this is a big release for us we want to keep a lot of the feature secretive so that the surprise is more effective upon it's release date.  Thank you for your patience."

But there would be some minor bugs, it's okay, no problem, all software have bugs,  but this is like an old house full of cockroaches which was painted the outside to make it more beautiful. My words are harsh but it is reality.

I think I'll bow out of this thread. It looks to me as if most of your problems are user error which you seem to have no interest in addressing.

Perhaps post#3 is not so wrong after all.

ive filed about ten problem reports so far - real issues all.  what i think youre seeing is cakes non-destructive midi editing.  the nee two notes are added as separate clips so you can preserve the original data. select all the midi you want to loop and bounce to clips.  then turn it into a groove clip and loop away.

"I can assure that SONAR X2 is a superior program to SONAR X1.  SONAR X1 was a premature leap into the realm of modern DAW's but since that leap we have made many adjustments in the past two years. Since this is a big release for us we want to keep a lot of the feature secretive so that the surprise is more effective upon it's release date.  Thank you for your patience."
 
.... equals:

> Cakewalk promised me that all these bugs would be fixed.

Huh????

I think you need to get one of these, seems to be a bug in your own internal software:
http://youtu.be/Nu-nlQqFCKg

> yes, I think now they take us for idiots.

Nope we take you for an idiot.

RTFM! (bye).

well dude - why blame the software when you obviosuly dont look at a manual or dont even try the options that are given in the  different windows.

as a former strong critic of sonar 7 and 8 i have to say that x2 is pretty intuiitive and all opertaions are easily accessible from the relative windows

cheers

but it does not bother you? for a solution developed by musicians for musicians, this is the cakewalk slogan. For me, it is a waste of time

what should bother "us" ?  - if you dont know how to use it you cant blame the company...

its not optimal to overly criticise a product while showing that there are big lacks of knowledge...besides the fact that you might also experience "real" bugs...

Somebody throw this troll off (clearly unable to read our posts let alone the manual, would prefer to blame tools rather than himself, thinks education should come to him rather than go search for it). 

Reported this thread to forum moderator, hopefully they can get it frozen before I get ruder.

On a related note, the one time I tried to step record some MIDI data in X2, I noticed that when I entered a rest, Sonar started a new clip on the next note. So if you entered 10 notes with 3 rests between them, you'd end up with 4 separate clips. Is this normal? I found it very annoying.