Thank you Carissa, you are very well spoken. I wish everyone, including myself, could be as clear.
I have been with Sonar since S-2, through 4PE, to 7PE, and now to X1. I have never before had the time to really learn to use it. I would usually get totally frustrated by ignorance, on my part, of how to make the software play well with my hardware. Then I would set it aside, get busy with life, come back and start all over, get frustrated again and so on.
Now I am semi-retired (mostly retired actually) and I have time to try to work through it all... and I am truly trying. I don't understand some of the basics and so many people here seem to be "professionals" who talk about things that are over my head.
Actually, no one has been rude to me and I don't mind asking questions but I really hesitate to contribute. I think it would be akin to the offering of my opinion on the effects of cholesterol on the cardiovascular system to a meeting of published cardiologists. I help where I can but I am very careful and my contributions usually consist of my pointing someone to something someone else posted... because I am reading everything I can find right now, trying to learn myself. Perhaps I am one beggar telling another where he found bread.
I have seen too many forums lose good people and become a shadow of what they once were due to a few who make everything personal. It is the same people who will cut you off in traffic, in the assumed safety of their car, but would never have the nerve to break in line at the bank or at the store... though lately I have seen people do just that and no one corrects them because a fool will not receive correction. (I am not calling people here fools, I am talking about people who are disrespectful in "real life") Most people can tell a fool and in real life will shake their head an let it slide because they know to say something will do no good.
However, online it is different and people are quick to say things they would never say face to face. I think it is just the nature of the beast and online it is unfettered. To some it is just "words on a screen" or so they think until things get out of hand, good people back off, and we all lose. Sometimes good people quitely go to another, smaller online community. I truly hope that does not happen here because I
need the help of good people and I will need it even more in the future. So... if you are a person who really knows about the DAW and about Sonar and who just wants to help users learn and help CW get better. I hope, for the sake of us who need you... you will consider overooking the boorish and continue to give what you can... some of us really appreciate it.
As I said before. No one has been rude to me... and I hope those who know what they are doing stay here and help me and others. I have no idea how much it is that I don't know. If you are one of the good guys you have real value here. I hope you know that.
Julien