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alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:17 pm

For people that use Sonar X2, the upgrade from X1 Studio at this price is a good deal?
X2 is sufficiently stable? The new features worth the money?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:25 pm

No from me and the they haven't updated it since december of last year.

But try the demo. AFAIK, you can run both that an X1

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:12 pm

Stable, for me yes. Worth the extra features (additional pro channel stuff, ye, I guess)... overall hmm, not sure (it's not my main DAW though so take my opinion with a bag of salt). As hibs said, try the demo and see.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:28 pm

The demo is too big. I don't want to mess with my new PC

KevWestBeats · Post by **KevWestBeats** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:43 am

alvfaria wrote:The demo is too big. I don't want to mess with my new PC

Congrats on the new PC. I got the same email and I passed. At one point Sonar was my main DAW the new features look worth while but until they fix the issues with loop recording while Reason is rewired to it I just can't see myself using Sonar again. I do like the DAW but that is one thing I cannot deal with. Also it doesn't like my Balance audio interface and I am not buying a new interface just because of Sonar when the interface I have now is barely a year old and works perfectly fine. Those were the things that kept me from going to X2 in the first place anyway.

wetdentist · Post by **wetdentist** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:58 am

so far so good with me

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:17 pm

I installed the demo.

The 32 bit bridge seems to be much better on X2. No clicks with synthedit stuff.
The automation lanes works fine to.

Iostream · Post by **Iostream** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:38 pm

X2 is certainly a big improvement over X1, and Producers is worth the premium over Studio. Pro channel, breverb, and R-Mix are all interesting. I have kind of moved away from Sonar over the past month after many years, but it wasn't because Sonar was unstable or going downhill, more that features I really wanted were elsewhere.

scook · Post by **scook** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:20 pm

alvfaria wrote:I installed the demo.

The 32 bit bridge seems to be much better on X2. No clicks with synthedit stuff.
The automation lanes works fine to.

FWIW, BitBridge is identical to the one installed with X1. Last change to BitBridge was in 2009. I do prefer X2 over X1 though.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:01 pm

scook wrote:
alvfaria wrote:I installed the demo.

The 32 bit bridge seems to be much better on X2. No clicks with synthedit stuff.
The automation lanes works fine to.
FWIW, BitBridge is identical to the one installed with X1. Last change to BitBridge was in 2009. I do prefer X2 over X1 though.

I used X1 and X2 demo side by side. Synthedit plugins works well on X2 but in X1 I get glitches.

scook · Post by **scook** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:17 pm

alvfaria wrote:
scook wrote:
alvfaria wrote:I installed the demo.

The 32 bit bridge seems to be much better on X2. No clicks with synthedit stuff.
The automation lanes works fine to.
FWIW, BitBridge is identical to the one installed with X1. Last change to BitBridge was in 2009. I do prefer X2 over X1 though.
I used X1 and X2 demo side by side. Synthedit plugins works well on X2 but in X1 I get glitches.

I am not denying the results you are getting just the assumption that it is due to changes in the BitBridge. There have been no changes to the Bitbridge software in years. Moreover, the BitBridge software is located in the "Shared Utilities" folder so there is only one copy installed for all versions of SONAR on your machine.

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:06 pm

I got sick of the difficulties setting up midi automation, especially for effects. And as a major U-He user, SONAR is a total fail. U-He software has major issues, but only with SONAR. After using Cake software for many many years, I'm switching to Cubase.

pwal · Post by **pwal** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:03 pm

After x1 I switched to studio 1, does what I need and is much more stable; I'm hanging off cake as I get the impression they're more marketing driven these days, but you should try demo

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:25 pm

alvfaria wrote:For people that use Sonar X2, the upgrade from X1 Studio at this price is a good deal?
X2 is sufficiently stable? The new features worth the money?

Based on recent version history of Sonar:

Sonar 8 October 2008
Sonar X1 December 2010
Sonar X2 September 2012

Looks like Sonar X3 will be shipped in a year or so, so then again users will need to bring their upgrade dollar to the table to stay up to date.

Too frequent for my taste.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:09 pm

I don't know if this deal is still good of if the OP is still interested. I see you installed the demo. I'm happy to hear it, I know it was big

@updates: This has been a particularly bad cycle It's been december since a patch and I personally don't believe the product is THAT good that it doesn't need one. I'd be a little concerned.

Upgrade to SonarX2 Pro for $100. Yes or No?