bitflipper
If forums had been around in 1965:
 
"I won't buy another Fender guitar because CBS cancelled the Honeymooners"
 
That writer would be kicking himself today for missing out on a chance to buy a pre-CBS Strat at normal retail. Perhaps the incentive to buy X3 is to grab the last pre-TASCAM version. Think of the resale value in 20 years!

BUT YOU CANNOT RESELL IT !!!!!EULA

George wins!

 I know how you feel Beagle. I remember buying a particular kind of car and having nothing but trouble with it. To this day I won't even consider buying that brand. I never bought Gigastudio but I was really tempted at the time. There were only a few other strong contenders. Yellow Tools is still around I think. At the time besides Kontakt they were gaining momentum. Now Kontakt pretty much rules the roost even though they managed to slight more than a few users at one time or another. Dimension Pro is nothing to sneeze at for some kinds of things. Most decent DAWs now come with some kind of sample playback.  
 
 I think I might have SAS. ( software aquisition syndrome)
 

I still have some of the bits from my childhood programming.  Ok, I'll admit that they're mostly the zeros, but still...

Didn't Fender announce that they were changing the becan formulation?  Instead of being made out of the nasty "pork" stuff they were making a "new improved" version out of tofu with "natural becan flavoring" all at a sustantial saving over the cost of the old becan.  They found that by adding 112 different chemicals (better eating through chemistry) they could get tofu to fry up crispy.

I hear they're going to come out with an exotic wood smoked variety...

craigb
I hear they're going to come out with an exotic wood smoked variety...

YUMMM Hickory smoked BBQ guitar... EPHIPHONE version ??

slartabartfast
I may well not buy X3 either, but not because I have a  grudge against a new owner. Unless there are some really useful new features in MIDI and softsynth  technology, I probably already have as much Sonar as I will ever use. I have long ago given up on notation. Things like pitch correction and loop construction are useless to me, and  most of the audio processing plugins are almost useless for someone who primarily uses a microphone for sampling.   DAW software is rapidly reaching the point that office suites hit with Office 2000. New "innovations" are pretty much not applicable to the work they are meant to do. Will Sonar X3 have an associated cloud account?

 
And here I thought I was being sarcastic. 
 
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Can someone help me find a midi/softsynth feature I did not already get by buying every upgrade since before Pro Audio?
Lounge Lizard guitar emulation---why not just use samples if you want to make a computer sound like an physical instrument?
Tassman would have been an interesting AAS product, but not to me since I already own it.