X1 Opinions From Those Who Do Not Yet Have it Installed

himalaya


I don't have it installed (haven't bought it) and I'm not sure I will. Reading user experiences at the moment it appears to me that X1 needs much more work before it can be ready for prime time.

One issue which has really disapointed me is that fact that X1 is designed for hi-res monitors. Cakewalk has made a decision to cut off a lot of users who use laptops with 1280x800 screen resolution. There are user reports that the ProChannel is not fully visible at this resolution. I find this actully offensive, that a company is so blind as to forget that there are users using laptops with that resolution. It's as if they had made a concious decision to abandon users like myself in favour of new customers coming to Sonar for the first time.

In my honest view, there should be at least two user interfaces designed for smaller and larger resolution. This would constitue more work for Cakewlak, but it would surely be richly rewarded by happy customers.

By the way, I'm neither a fanboy nor a hater, I'm simply a user who relies on Sonar for professional work 24/7. The problem for me is, I can't just keep on using 8.5 since I also do beta testing and need to be up to date, using the latest version of my host. So with development of Sonar 8.5 now stopped, I have to look at other hosts.

I'm going to wait for the X1 demo, then see how it performs on my laptop and make a decision accordingly.

himalaya


I don't have it installed (haven't bought it) and I'm not sure I will. Reading user experiences at the moment it appears to me that X1 needs much more work before it can be ready for prime time.

One issue which has really disapointed me is that fact that X1 is designed for hi-res monitors. Cakewalk has made a decision to cut off a lot of users who use laptops with 1280x800 screen resolution. There are user reports that the ProChannel is not fully visible at this resolution. I find this actully offensive, that a company is so blind as to forget that there are users using laptops with that resolution. It's as if they had made a concious decision to abandon users like myself in favour of new customers coming to Sonar for the first time.

In my honest view, there should be at least two user interfaces designed for smaller and larger resolution. This would constitue more work for Cakewlak, but it would surely be richly rewarded by happy customers.

By the way, I'm neither a fanboy nor a hater, I'm simply a user who relies on Sonar for professional work 24/7. The problem for me is, I can't just keep on using 8.5 since I also do beta testing and need to be up to date, using the latest version of my host. So with development of Sonar 8.5 now stopped, I have to look at other hosts.

I'm going to wait for the X1 demo, then see how it performs on my laptop and make a decision accordingly.

StarTekh


>>Reegs tell me the make and model of the motherboard
>> the make and model of the video card
>> and the make and model of your sound device ..jon

I read that it performs better with VSTs than 8.5! Since I'm not that happy with 8.5's performance at low latencies, X1 would suit me better (if the claims are indeed true).

John



Also some of the negative response is due to the screen shot that CW is using for promoting X1. It is so crowded and squished together that we so use to a track view that was far more open and showing a lot more actual data of MIDI or audio that we can see how it will work out well.

We with dual monitors don't need the "laptop" look. Yet it was not made clear that the view that CW uses is one of many and not the only one that X1 can be setup with. It can in fact show at least as many tracks as the former Sonar did. I believe it can show more. But that is only speculation. I think that is the key. We who do not have X1 are only speculating at best and guessing at worst. We ought to be a little less critical until we have spent enough time with it and understand it a lot more. 

I don't understand what you mean John by "We with dual monitors don't need the "laptop" look".

As to real problems with the GUI ( not just bugs and crach reports) there are examples where the new design implementation has taken the workflow backwards.

Twigman


I have upgraded to X1 and it is running smoothly.
No crashes.
My gripes with X1 centre around the changes in workflow which are supposed to make life easier:

No reordering of tracks in the CV

Having to select from the Edit Filter drop down rather than having a mouse position contextual right click menu.