I hear ya. With everything that's been going on these past few years and constantly being at war with my body I've finally got all the resources I need, mostly know how to use it all and just can't seem to get any bloody tracks done. This should hopefully be a good month though. Just gotta do this sh*t tomorrow and I won't have much else to do but dive in.
 
Here's hopin' you get some inspiration yourself. In fact let's all crank out some tunes this month. Jan/Feb are kind of boring arse anyway. Great time to write/produce.

Here's to inspiration!

Shambler
Here's to inspiration!

Cheers!
 

Beepster

Old55
I haven't been in a big rush to upgrade because I need to upgrade my PC to take advantage of the new features.  With the extra $20 off, it's hard not to jump on it.  

Huh... what features won't work on your rig? The Melodyne stuff? I haven't gotten a chance to try that out yet myself. Looks cool though.
 
Still the core of the program is much better IMO from my initial experience so if you have X2 running it should still be a step up just as far as the core DAW. Just a lot smoother and more pleasurable to work with. At this point of usage with X2 I had experienced kind a few little quirks and bugs and a lot of graphical nonsense. Haven't had a single thing go weird (that wasn't my own fault for being a spazz) with X3 so far and I haven't changed a thing on my system. A hardcore editing session will be the true test though... especially in regards to audiosnap. I've only been doing some scratch tracks and arrangement type editing.

I've had X2 for a year and haven't really used R-MIX and a couple of other things.  I would guess that Melodyne on X3 might have the same situation.  I have an old AMD that was cutting edge at one time.  I think it's a 1.85 GHz.  I have plenty of disc space, though.  Minimum system requirement is listed as 2.4 GHz.  I also don't have enough RAM.  It's a different PC than the one I'm surfing on, so I can't look at the moment.  
 
I haven't had a chance to upgrade the hardware because I've been distracted with some health issues.  

Hope you get to feeling better there Old. I feel guilty calling you old lol. 
 
If you get a good deal on an upgrade and you have older hardware. X3 should still run on it if  it ran X2 ok.
Even if you don't use it for months or decide to upgrade your hardware next year Cakewalk keeps your serial numbers on their server and all you need to do is download it into your new machine after you decommission it in the old one.
I have no idea exactly how your system is set up but minimum number of tracks with minimum soft synths on a 32 bit 4gb memory restriction should still allow you to use it at least in a limited way.
 
Does anyone know if 20.00 sale is still on for the videos on X3?

Starise
Hope you get to feeling better there Old. I feel guilty calling you old lol. 
 
If you get a good deal on an upgrade and you have older hardware. X3 should still run on it if  it ran X2 ok.
Even if you don't use it for months or decide to upgrade your hardware next year Cakewalk keeps your serial numbers on their server and all you need to do is download it into your new machine after you decommission it in the old one.
I have no idea exactly how your system is set up but minimum number of tracks with minimum soft synths on a 32 bit 4gb memory restriction should still allow you to use it at least in a limited way.
 
Does anyone know if 20.00 sale is still on for the videos on X3?

Well, I am old.  There's no changing that.  My handle was actually inspired by the Tom Waits song that was also covered by the Eagles.  
 
Some of my Christmas gifts were were gift cards, I looking at a few strategies on how to use them towards upgrading my DAW.  It may take a little while, though.  Yeah, I can probably get it work on my current rig, but it will annoy me a lot not being able to use all the features which are the reason to get X3 in the first place.  I may just get it X3 now and install it on the new machine once it's up and running.  
 
I haven't really tried to check how many tracks I can actually use.  X2 has mostly done what I've need on the older hardware--just without the fancy stuff.  I think my main problem is that I can't add memory without buying RAM and a new OS.  I just rather upgrade the whole thing and get it set up right instead of investing time and money for a machine that will probably just limp along.  
 
Thanks for the ideas.  I'll give them some thought too.  
 

Starise
Hope you get to feeling better there Old. I feel guilty calling you old lol. 
 
If you get a good deal on an upgrade and you have older hardware. X3 should still run on it if  it ran X2 ok.
Even if you don't use it for months or decide to upgrade your hardware next year Cakewalk keeps your serial numbers on their server and all you need to do is download it into your new machine after you decommission it in the old one.
I have no idea exactly how your system is set up but minimum number of tracks with minimum soft synths on a 32 bit 4gb memory restriction should still allow you to use it at least in a limited way.
 
Does anyone know if 20.00 sale is still on for the videos on X3?

PS--try following the "Buy" link on the e-mail, put the video in the shopping cart and apply the code.  It will tell you if it will take it or not.  Then you can cancel or delete the order.  I did that and it gave me the discount for the upgrade and the media.  It didn't give me the discount for Craig Anderton's Mini-Moog voices for Rapture.  

Hi,
 
I got the coupon to get the X3 for $49 bux.
 
I'm having a big debate on it, but I'm pretty sure that help with it, is not gonna be fun, and that is preventing me from using it.
 
I'm soooooooo down on music software anything, as more than half of it is such a rip off! And we pay for it.
 No different than putting up with taxes or the bapu'esque adventures in this forum! There's always Harry Potter!
 

Thanks Old . Might as well try the code and see what happens then.Nothing to loose.
 
Good luck with getting the computer situation sorted out ok.
 
 

Thanks, Tim.  I guess the clock is ticking on the $20 coupon.  I'll have to decide that first.  Good luck with the shopping cart.