I installed X2 yesterday just before a session I had scheduled. My producer and I started to work in X2 on a previously started X1 project but we experienced a lot of audio dropouts (dialog popping up for this). Maybe one every 2 minutes or so. After 20 minutes or so, we went back to X1 for this project, figuring I will experiment with X2 when I'm not paying for someone's expert help (mostly musical since he's a PT/Mac guy, but he's gotten up to speed on Sonar X1 very fast).
I almost never see dropouts in X1 - it runs smooth as silk. This was not an especially big project (maybe 10 audio tracks, fair number of effects like GR4, mostly using Prochannel for per-track EQ etc., no problems in X1). I have a fairly recent laptop (Toshiba Qosmio X775 with Core i7 and 8 GB RAM, 64 bit Win7).
New software versions usually get bigger and require more resources. My question: is there any sort of tuning I can do in Sonar or Win 7 to help X2 run better? I realize this is not an exhaustive test by any means, but the very same smallish project runs great in X1.
Thanks,
Bruce