sharke: can you let me know when you get your copy what version it's up to and if it's stable? Right now, I have four "MiniDumps" of data where SONAR X1 locks up and crashes me out of the program. For doing nothing except clicking somewhere.   Any thing I can do to send these or ??? so I can figure out what is going on?
 
The last was just selecting "staff view" from the menu and ***crash***.
 
I'm left with the conclusion that the software demo is either full of bugs - which is bad enough. But no way to tell if the 'real version' is any better.

You could of course ask that same question to the forum right now, because when I get my copy of X1 I guess the first thing I'm going to do is patch it up to X1d, the same as most people here. 

sonar x2 will be doing away with support for windows xp

your operating system is 11 years old.
x1 was ment to run on windows 7.
sure there are people using xp still but i wouldnt even think about running something as powerful as sonar x1 on a windows OS from 2001.

running it here on windows 7,never had an issue,runs very strong,hardly even a hickup.

sooner or later your going to have to look technology in the eye and not blame sonar as much as being buggy but in fact what your running it on.

when it was released it was and still is supported by windows xp but newer patches and the web trial came out only a year ago.
like i said,i wouldnt run it on xp,but if i did,i wouldnt blame the software.

good luck.

>>like i said,i wouldnt run it on xp,but if i did,i wouldnt blame the software.
First of all: http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/X1-Producer/feature.aspx/SONAR-X1-Producer-System-Requirements
 
 SONAR X1 Producer System Requirements
The following are the minimum recommended system requirements for SONAR X1 Producer.
* Windows XP Service Pack 3 (32-bit)/Vista Service Pack 2 (32- or 64-bit)/Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)*
 
If your comment is correct, maybe CW needs to specify this better??
 
That said, I thew it on my Win7x64 (which I try not to let anything on that is not 'proven') and it performed perfectly!  So that is a *good* thing!
It's much more responsive too.  I flogged it pretty hard and it never glicthed.  Nice.  Will keep playing with it to make sure.
 
 

You could of course ask that same question to the forum right now, because when I get my copy of X1 I guess the first thing I'm going to do is patch it up to X1d, the same as most people here.

 
Correct.  The screen capture shows the demo as X1b, two versions behind the current release, and there were many fixes between X1b and X1d.  Though whether the newer build will resolve the specific crashes you're seeing is impossible to say.  But it doesn't seem as though many users are experiencing the frequency of crashes you've described.   I know I personally am not, running X1d Expanded.
 

X1 is supported on XP but it sounds like you use the machine as a test bed. Did you start with a fresh install of XP for the demo? It is not a requirement to work from a fresh start but if you are adding and removing software from the box, the cumulative effect of the all the changes can make a machine unstable. FWIW, X1 is being replaced soon by X2. X2 is not supported on XP.

You should upgrade your computer to Windows 7 64-bit before considering Sonar X1. It will run much better and more stable under a more current O/S. Plus Win7-64 will use all 4GB of your memory which WinXP-32 can't. 

daveny5


You should upgrade your computer to Windows 7 64-bit before considering Sonar X1. It will run much better and more stable under a more current O/S. Plus Win7-64 will use all 4GB of your memory which WinXP-32 can't. 

See post above.  I did try it on my win7x64 and it seems to run fine.  That was not clear to me as CW states the requirements (for X1) as WinXp etc.  
 
But - like I said - it DOES seem to run really nice on Win7x64 

scook


X1 is supported on XP but it sounds like you use the machine as a test bed. Did you start with a fresh install of XP for the demo? It is not a requirement to work from a fresh start but if you are adding and removing software from the box, the cumulative effect of the all the changes can make a machine unstable. FWIW, X1 is being replaced soon by X2. X2 is not supported on XP.

The WinXp setup is rather newly and very stable install - recent 2 week ago refresh/ from image to make sure it was un-cluttered.  I really have had ZERO issues with anything else I've thrown at it in the past.
 
But I think 2 things - that a) the demo is probaly a little out of date, and b) the win7x64 seems definitely more stable in general.  With X2 even *specifying* win7 (*now* I know)  it seems reasonable to say it should be pretty good!   :-)
 

I run X1d on my Windows XP Pro SP 3 32bit with no crashes at all. Everything runs smooth and fast. When and if I have problems I will upgrade my system.