ORIGINAL: GrottoRob

Poor Samara had no idea it would be like this.....Hope she's cracking the whip up in Boston, not in a dark corner muttering to herself

Can you please let us have some details on what is NOT in HS7 that was in HS6.

Yeah- What he said.....

If these features have been deliberately left out of HS7, which I find astonishing, can I have my £39 back?

Or a ridiculously attractive deal on Producer? (Yeah, Right...)


Rob

As Johnny once said at Winterland - "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

Quick for Admin question sent a e-mail never got a answer I have guitar tracks from way back was going to update to 7XL when I check out it says I am not qualified as a existing member and can not have the discountd price of 129.00. Is my version so old it does not count????

Unfortunately, it seems CW also heard us when we were all saying that the margin between the Home Studio and SONAR lines was getting very small .

Hi Samara

First off, my sincere apologies for my part in the other matter.

Thanks for the clarification of the features of HS6 that have been dropped in HS7.

I must be completely honest, the new HS7 features mentioned in the your original post sold me the product immediately, I ordered up straight away on the basis of what was being added to the product.

However, it would have been nice to have been given an insight into the direction the product was about to take and maybe a list of the features being removed; I think had I been in possession of all the facts, I would have probably stayed with HS6 or taken the plunge direct to SONAR 8 PE.

Anyway, I think it's excellent that you and your colleagues are listening to our concerns and I for one am looking forward to see what comes of all this.

Thanks again

Steve

Hi Samara,
just one question : is automation part of a clip in HS7? this means c: an i copy and paste a clip and the automation will be copied too?
oh and maybe another one : is there an arpeggiator in HS7?
thanx, i'm considering upgradimg from MC4 to HomeStudio7
michi

Henk - this is the wrong place for a feature request.

use this form:
http://www.cakewalk.com/support/featurerequest.asp

HI Samara,

I recently upgraded from Sonar 1 to SHS7XL. So I've been getting used to the new look, etc. I have noticed that some of what I see on youtube I don't seem to have access to..like I've been watching the "audio snap" videos to tighten vocals and drums and I can't locate it. I can find the snap grid, but I don't have any of those options. So here's my question. Do I have access to the audio snap features or is that in another version, say "producer".

Also, I'm glad you mentioned in one of your comments that session drummer 2 was dropped for SI-Drums in SHS&XL. On youtube session drummer is mentioned as being part of SHS7 and I've been going nuts trying to find it.

Thanks Samara

New look? That's fantastic. Wasn't XL 6's look good enough? I didn't feel I was missing something. In stead, you took out 64 bit. I completely upgraded my computers to 64 bits a year go. I am using XL 6/WinXP64. Great, here's XL 7 without 64 bits. Now, That's real progress Ms. Krugman, real progress. In the Readme of XL6 it was stated that the 64 bit problems will be addressed in a future edition. Nice change since. Sorry, no go to 7. Maybe ProTools M-Audio.

Sylva.

Well, they have 64 bits in XL6 and promised to fix the problems regarding WinXP64 which they do mention in the Readme.txt. I took their word straight, but they bent it. To me it means they don't care about their customers as they did before, settling for the "good enough." Maybe it's the winds of new corporate culture from Roland? I don't know, but will start looking for something else. I bought XL6 for $129. Why should I switch to full 8 for a mere $271 (which is a fortune for me) more when XL6 has most what a good DAW is supposed to have? True, I am not a beginner anymore but XL6 is not for beginners. It's a very complex and fairly complete package which took some time to master, more over, I don't think I mastered it yet. When a manufacturer brags about the "new interface" of its product, flags go up in my mind becuase I have manufacturing experience. Most of the time it's nothing but gimmick. And gimmick it is, because apparently, under the shiny veneer, wood of much lesser quality was used. This is why I didn't hurry to buy the upgrade offered in tandem with the XL7's issue to market. I wanted to see what it was about. And what it is about is not to my liking. The computer world is clearly shifting to 64 bits. The pace is picking up and, though the change over is hardware driven, software is catching up. You now buy XL7 and 4-6 months down the road XL8 will be looming with grand opening: "Sonar Home Studio 8, now fully 64 bit!! Take advantage of our inexpensive upgrade for only $69." Ahhha, you just upgraded to 7 six months back for $59, and now 64 bit is back at only $69. The two upgrades sound pretty much like what I paid for XL6 to begin with. Maybe even Session Drummer will be back, of course, "new and improved." It's the old Microsoft thing. Windows 95, the new 32 bit operating system. No more DOS, new carefree memory management. Oh, yeah.

Alex,

I understand your reasons, however if people find, as Robert says, that SHS6 is too steep to learn, than they have a choice to go to CompUSA or some other mega store and buy those $39-$49 entry level packages. Yes, SHS6 is an exceptionally strong product and I LOVE it. For your info, when I bought it I was a COMPLETE greenhorn at DAWs, MIDI, etc. and had a steep hill to climb. But I was at it from day one and am at it now. I still have a lot to learn about SHS6 XL. I thought that CAKEWALK will continue with the product in the vane it promised to, work out the problems in the 64 bit version and make SHS an even stronger product. This is all I meant to say. Watering it down leaves a bad taste. As a product, SHS became a stub with verstion 7. People cannot expect me to buy a completely new product every year (because this is what it would now take to get another 64 bit version that does not have the problems of SHS6). Sorry, but you need to see my side too.

Sylva.

Can you help me with this?

Trying to install 7.01 and 7.02 updates but getting error.
"Cannot locate the required SONAR version on this system. Please install the correct version of SONAR to use this patch"
I reinstalled SONAR 7.00 XL with no luck. So I tried the "PatchAppData" download and it states "Nothing to do, common appdta path already exists"

Any help would be appreciated.

JaiVon

Hello there Sid, welcome aboard.

Home Studio 7XL certainly is a great bit of gear - you've certainly purchased a very sophisticated and capable product.

I'd suggest you have a study of the manual, and work your way through the tutorials - basically get yourself acquainted with HS7. If you find yourself struggling at all, or you're not sure about anything, be sure to ask away - just click on the New Post link at the top of the main HS page.

There are plenty of very experienced and helpful folk in this forum who'd be only too happy to help you along!

Congratulations on your new software and good luck


Steve

Does the Sonar Home Studio 7XL have a USB Audio Capture?

I use the Presonus faderport with HS6 & 7

With HS7:
In Track View there's an indicator that tells me which channel the faderport is controlling. However, in Console View I can't seem to see any type of indicator. Got any magic for this?

With HS6:
This is not a problem.

Thanks
Scott

Hello, My name is Billsteve

I would like to record more than one USB mics at once for a podcast, can I do that with Sonar? can I do that with the Home verson? can I even do it with the Music creator?