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Hello everyone! I installed this new version of EA, and almost immediately discovered several bugs: 1. Sonar locks up when using the "Go to Time" command via the Assistant. The Assistant window disappears, nothing else opens, and the Sonar interface fades to the background, becoming completely inoperable. Meanwhile, the audio engine and processing indicator continues to show some activity. Closing Sonar in this state is only possible via the Task Manager. I just created a dump file using Task Manager, but I can't attach it here – it's 2.25 GB, and when zipped (maximum compression) it's 380 MB. I can leave a link to my "cloud" here: https://app.box.com/s/a98t6fm848qg1g2n97tkxz4w9iucqbng If there's another way to share it, please let me know. 2. When opening the Mixer (Console), the "On/Off" buttons on ProChannels show "Off." When expanding ProChannel to full size (widen), the buttons are activated, but only on channels that fit in the visible space. Additionally, I've noticed a couple of times that some modules in these ProChannels that are activated in my projects are randomly disabled. After enabling and saving the project, when I reopen the Mixer, a different module might be "Off." However, the "On/Off" buttons are deactivated every time I open the Mixer. 3. When opening the "Notes" section in the "Browser," the "Synths Rack" section closes completely, and then it doesn't open when I open the "Browser." It can only be expanded by dragging its bottom edge. This happens every time. Furthermore, the "Notes" icon itself only appears when the "Browser" is at a very wide display. I have a 2560x1440 on 32'' monitor, and even on that monitor, I have to make the "Browser" bar very wide to see the icon. As I work on this version, I'll post my observations and any other bugs (if any) here.

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Well you can feed the phone amp with a TRS to 2x TR. Y cable plugged into the headphone jack. I have a few different sets of phones and I run the headphone volume at 12 o’clock . Sometimes as high as 2 o’clock. Where are you setting the mix control? I have that at 12 o’clock as well. It’s really loud.

There are some streaming services that appear to have somehow messed up the soundtrack of various documentaries such that all the backing sounds and music are blasting over the voiceovers, making them unwatchable. In some it is almost as if they used some sort of reverse-ducking, where the voice gets ducked instead of the rest, *and* at the same time also increases the volume of the rest of the stuff. One of the Jim Al Khalili physics documentaries (don't remember which) was the worst, couldn't even hear that anyone was even talking thru the majority of it, I think on Amazon PV. Some of them even seem to be the wrong soundtrack--like they took two channels out of a surround mix and fed them to left and right of a stereo signal instead--but didn't use the main L and R channels, and instead used some other pair that has mostly music and effects in it, and very little center / vocal / etc. I have such problems hearing (well, really it's *understanding*) voices in various circumstances that I use a multiband compressor and limiter to greatly reduce eveyrhting but the main voice bands, and to really smash everything down (and bring up the low levels of quiet passages) for any "show" I watch. But even that doesn't fix the shows they've messed up this way. And even if I bypass it and just listen normaly, it's still very messed up.

I'm with you there... some movie balances are great, others are absolutely horrendous. I think it comes from hiring music guys to mix the 5.1 without dialog experience, or else the dub stage is not Dolby calibrated (I had to re-cal a sound stage in Vancouver several years back cuz it was so out of whack).

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Something is odd when I deselect and reselect a plugin. In my start template I have plugs I used for years each set up in tracks to give quick starting points with different choices. With this beta when I reselect a plug it sounds like audio gets all phasy. It only clears if I stop audio and restart the transport. That's never happened in 20+ years...but hey, it's what betas are for. EDIT - Yikes. I gotta roll this back as this issue is a show stopper for what I'm doing tonight. Anyone else ?

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I'm sure that's what I did before, craigb. Didn't work then, works now. It's magic, I tells ya.

Up next - sensitive balance between dialogues and sound effects in movies. I always thought it was kind of ironic that the increase in the available dynamic range and with all the modern tools available to manage that range things went in the opposite direction of what would have made sense (imho). They compressed the heck out of the one thing that could have benefited from dynamics and took the opposite approach with TVs and movies. I remember giving up on movies after a few minutes because of that. I'm not saying that I want my movies brick walled, but, close. lol Of course, I am a grumpy old man, but, still...

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Insider info from the RIAA and Grammy directorate have pushed for this because most of the streaming services are stomping down levels to where it alters the music in an unappreciated way. Cheers to the return of dynamic range!

Will try to get to that later tonight.

I'd mentioned Metallica's Load remaster being surprisingly quieter than the old masters. Well, I just put on the 50th anniversary remaster of KISS Alive! It is significantly quieter, peaking at around -6 in my UAD meter and with a lot more dynamic range than the old masters I have. I think we may finally be pulling out of that +25 year nightmare, you guys...

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Thanks Nigel.

Was on my way here to post it! Wow, it seems to have some fantastic sounds! Some are Kontakt and most have .wav. Just the first one (VIntage Machines) has 3.1 GB of samples.

The only change on this system is Windows 10 updates. My Win 7 & WIn11 laptops are all on original OS's.

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IF it freezes can you capture a dump file from task manager please?

If this is in the new Sonar it might be one of those graphics related glitches. You might want to report this directly to staff by submitting a report to them.

I upgraded to Win11 last week and in dealing with all of the nuances of the update, I noticed today that the system had essentially purged all sound devices not actively connected to the machine during that update. At first I thought it wasn't displaying disabled/disconnected hardware, but they were being shown, just not there. It also enabled everything I had disabled on Win10, so if you have done an O/S change that is something to check, maybe even go as far as uninstalling/re-installing drivers to be sure. Upgrading to Win10 didn't do this (just to clarify), so it may be a TPM artifact of Win11, but is worth noting in case you have shifted O/S to do another run-through of drivers/settings to be sure things are still what they were prior.

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