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The release notes: February 28, 2024 2024.02 What's New UI refresh Sonar has been completely refeshed with a clean new UI. The UI refresh is an ongoing effort and will continue to be updated in future releases. New dark and light color schemes Sonar includes several color themes, including Dark, Dark Gray, Light, Light Gray, Tungsten, Mercury, and Cosmic. Additional color themes will be added in the future. Support for enhanced display scaling Improves rendering and reduces blurriness, particularly for font rendering. Enhanced display scaling may sharpen graphics and make text easier to read. Improvements will be most noticeable when using large, high resolution displays (such as 4K) and with Windows display scaling set higher than 100%. Per plugin enhanced display scaling for VST plugins. New Quick Start screen Open a recent project, open an existing project, create a new project from a template, download and open demo projects, preview projects, update the app. Project preview Preview projects from the Quick Start screen’s Local Projects page if you have exported a designated preview file. Configuration backup/restore Save and load backups of your Sonar configuration settings. Cakewalk Interchange Format (CXF) The Cakewalk Interchange Format (CXF) is a Cakewalk cross platform inter-app project file format, used to exchange projects between Sonar and Next. CXF files exported from either application can be opened or imported in both apps. CXF is a transitory format only used for exchange. It is not intended for archival storage or backing up since the format can change at any time. Cakewalk ZIP Format (CWZ) The new Cakewalk ZIP (.cwz) file format is intended for backing up projects, and is also useful for moving Sonar projects from one computer to another. Cakewalk ZIP is recommended over the older Cakewalk Bundle (CWB/BUN) format, because it does not compact the audio data, and therefore supports AudioSnap clips. Track Manager enhancements The Track Manager lets you configure which tracks are visible in the Track view and Console view, and you can create per-project presets to quickly show specific sets of tracks. Per-track spectrum analyzer display in the Console view and Inspector. ProChannel Concrete Limiter module ProChannel Concrete Limiter is a transparent look-ahead brickwall peak limiter. It is designed to reduce peak levels without coloring the sound. VX-64 Vocal Strip VX-64 Vocal Strip is a multi-functional plugin that combines a series of effects specifically optimized and streamlined for vocal processing. Combining compression, expansion, equalization, de-essing, doubling, delay and tube saturation in one convenient plug-in, VX-64 Vocal Strip is designed to make it fast an easy to enhance any vocal track. Project Start and End markers The Project Start and Project End markers define the playback range and the export range when exporting the entire project, and can also be used as Snap to Grid landmarks. Automation smoothing when recording Automation smoothing now also applies to recording automation in real-time. Specify the default automation curve type for drawing automation envelopes Offset mode enhancements To make it easier to visualize if a track parameter has an offset applied, Sonar shows the parameter value in an amber color when Offset mode is not active, and the parameter tooltip shows the offset value. In-app hang detection Sonar can now detect hangs and save a minidump file, which allows you to easily submit minidump files to Cakewalk support for analysis. Optimization for Intel processors Improvements to reduce CPU load when streaming silence with certain plug-ins that generate denormals. Double-click to expand/collapse docked windows (MultiDock, Inspector, and Browser) Toast notification when a control surface is disabled on launch Sonar now shows a notification if you start the app while a control surface is disconnected. External Insert ports now persist in track templates Audio port assignments for the External Insert plug-in are now persisted in track templates. Assignable key bindings to quickly show/hide tracks in the Track view and Console view Create sends by dragging effects to channel strips (audio track, instrument track, aux track, or bus) Additional snap landmarks New Snap to Grid landmarks include Arranger Section Start Time, Arranger Section End Time, Project Start Marker, and Project End Marker. Create tracks routed to aux tracks or patch points The Add Track menu now allows you to create tracks that are routed to a new aux track or patch point. Deleting a tempo in the Tempo Inspector sets the focus to the next tempo in the list Press F2 to rename markers in the Markers view The meter scale for Instrument tracks changes from a MIDI scale (vertical piano keys) to an audio dB scale when the track is frozen Remove all crossfades in the current selection with the new Track view Clips > Remove Selected Crossfades command Ability to select all tracks/buses in a control group The new Select Tracks/Buses in Group menu command on the control group context menu makes it easy to automatically select all tracks and buses that have controls that are a member of the current control’s group. Once selected, use quick grouping to adjust all tracks simultensously. Clicking Sonar logo in Control Bar opens Quick Start Screen Preview Bus is now a project-wide setting Preview Bus and Synth output assignment is now applied across the entire project rather than per view. Preview bus assignment can now be managed directly from the bus/mains/aux track context menus or directly from the main Project menu. An aux track can now be designated as a preview bus. Report bugs via the in-app Help > Report a Problem menu command Specify default synth for use in Add Track flyout menu Set via synth track context menu or Synth Rack menu. Quicker access to plugin settings The plugin toolbar now has a Settings menu button that provides direct access to Enhanced DPI scaling and plugin upsampling settings. Friendly names for plugins (set in the Browser) are now displayed in FX racks Note: This will apply to new instances of the plugin. Existing ones will still show the actual plugin name. New instances will show the friendly name. Track Scale Zoom is now quick-groupable You can now zoom the waveform or MIDI notes in all selected tracks by holding down the CTRL key and dragging up/down in the track scale. New plugins coming soon - to be announced. Cakewalk Product Center Cakewalk Product Center allows you to download and install Cakewalk products from one central location. Simply sign in with your BandLab ID and password and begin installing your connected products. Stay up to date with the latest features and fixes.

An in app sampler is planned soon. It will be similar to whats in Cakewalk Next (XSampler) so you can check it out there.

I have a dedicated email address for all of my music-related stuff. Keeps my main email mostly spam free But even with my dedicated email for music stuff, there’s certain devs/companies that email waaaay too much. In those cases, they are insta-unsubscribed.

Run the East West Installation Center to update

Actuate is a subtractive synthesizer, sampler, and granulizer made in Rust with Nih-Plug and Egui. Actuate follows a philosophy of "limited but creative options" for making sounds. Review: https://www.audiopluginsforfree.com/actuate/ D/L: https://github.com/ardura/Actuate/releases

I'd recommend Studio One. I like the GUI. Live is a laptop first DAW and doesn't have the screen real estate compared to Cubase.

Since there was a Sound Iron discussion, I thought I'd post I came across this... Hyperion Strings Micro Hyperion Brass Micro Olympus Choir Micro Apocalypse Percussion Micro Antidrum Machine https://macbundler.stacksocial.com/sales/soundiron-virtual-instruments-audio-student-bundle-audio-asset-bundle-for-creating-songs-and-movie-scores Use coupon ENJOY20 (only today) for a price of $80.

Rush - Spirit of Radio

Installed ! :-)

Just something I have been noticing quite a bit the past couple months. When going to look in my emails, there seems to be lots more developers and plugin shops emails going directly to the spam folder. I know from being involved with websites myself that the rules have changed, mostly that the big providers now require sites be fully DMARC certified. But some even with that still are going to "spam" or bulk mail folders. This causes those mails to unlikely be read and deleted automatically after 30 days, and their campaigns and messages are not getting through. It is just a small thing to do, if you want to simply check that folder out and any legit messages from those shops and developers, make sure to check those messages as not spam. It helps the email provider determine the emails from the companies are actually legit so they quit filtering them as spam, and helps the companies out making sure the messages get through to the appropriate inboxes. It doesn't cost anything to do this, and helps out a lot more than you know.

You can get unbiased reviews from a professional reviewer if you pay the reviewer and make it a viable business for him/her. An example would be "Snake oil" White Sea Studios who gets funding from Patreon and YouTube memberships (I'm one of his Patreon supporters). He occasionally gets some "perks" from a manufacturer, like a review version not accessible to the public, but he discloses it when that's the case (and notes that he is not getting the videos "vetted" by the company) https://www.youtube.com/@Whiteseastudio/videos

Waiting for the release of Bapusphere

The below comment by Byron in the Deals area made me decide to make a thread on what I've been doing for the last six months! (Only Rain knew about this prior.) Side-plug! 😁 I just finished the huge project of bringing this well-known Philosophy website into this millennium! Over 400 pages spanning 23+ years that was mostly written using old tools like Frontpage, so converting it to use normal HTML, CSS & JS was a lot of fun. The site owner insisted I do it from scratch too (no tools or templates), so I did! He was VERY exacting in how he wanted things to be. Philosophical Society.com Feel free to let me know what you think about it! (Er, provided you DO think that is! 😜)

I’m not sure we call this a Beta. I think that might be over. I think you call this a trial evaluation. They will probably now want more widespread use to really put it to the test . The more people using it the more issues will be found. 3 days isn’t much unless you do a none stop session. I put it aside for now until later when I can try a project from start to finish. That’s how I do it. I’m not expecting anything exciting to happen. There’s still no Talent button!

Pfft ..... "If in doubt, tw@t it up into A minor" ..... that's all anyone needs to know.

I am very confused by this topic. Has the new Sonar already been released or just some that are in the BETA version?

the grid - swamp thing

It would be highly unlikely. That's been thoroughly tested and we have not had any reports through the ongoing beta process about any conflicts.

My choice for mixing, too. I've never regretted switching to S1.

Thanks for pointing that out... I think people forget this!

Wasn't always subscription, things can change Ableton allow multiple installs but restrict who and when Steam allow sharing your library but not at the same time Let's see what comes, don't forget it's up to bandlab, not the bakers

That's because they are like pizza makers who don't eat or taste pizza. Too much of changing the paint.

Looks good. Can we suggest additional quotes? Here's one from Mark Knopfler's song "Industrial Disease": "Philosophy is useless. Theology is worse." Disclaimer: I have a philosophy degree.

The activation had two choices - 3 days for $15 or 12 months for $150 (a 16% discount!) I suspect Sonar will be “pay forever” software. But that’s not in stone yet.

Yep seems all very much like a re skin of Sonar / Cakewalk. I like the Cosmic “theme?” Seem to be a different set up there. Overall nothing seems changed in moving around etc. One observation is TTS-1 hasn’t been removed in this version yet. And yes I was disappointed that some of the cool things included with Next were missing. No Stem Separation either. But the release notes I posted above you will observe a huge list of stuff that was mostly requested fixes and features here on the forum so that’s awesome.

shpongle - a series of heads

And still no negative pre-roll measures or on-board sampler track... no surprise.

I guess it’ll be $199 sooner than we think.

My Upgrade from 11 to 12 email arrived - €87 - with a link to go direct to the shop. This offer will last for 7 days when the link expires

Did spend much time on video, old idea from a jam

https://audioplugin.deals/product/air-instruments-expansion-pack-3-complete-by-air-music-tech/ I quite like Hybrid, but I don't think this deal is, well, a deal.

Yep that's what I'm seeing here. Screenshot is from Sonar, CbB read "midi only"

TTS-1 has been removed... it's just that Sonar will default to TTS-1 if it's already installed. Sonar has the option to choose a default synth, so it will be the one shown in the Add Track HUD dialog on new sessions. Until you set a default synth , TTS-1 will be chosen if installed, or a MIDI only track if not.

I guess it depends on how a person works. I seldom get an entire tune in my head all at once, so it's great for immediate tracking in the loop section and then all of that can be put together to make something. I don't think any other DAW does that as well. If you track bands and have large counts then I could see Studio One or PT. However plenty use it for this too.

Last time I had a back stage pass I ended up lugging guitars and keyboards and helping the stage crew set up. By the time I got to the green room the food was all gone!! I guess if you purchase this it will get rid of the nag screen which for me after 30 minutes kept returning every 3 minutes.

In the interest of clarity, I removed it yesterday before I saw @Terry Kelley's reply once I found the Back Stage Pass link / file by clicking on the "NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH BACK STAGE PASS" link. I did not keep track of the time intervals between posting the emoji, realizing that @Terry Kelley might have been referring to the Back Stage Pass version, and removing the emoji. If someone wants to make an issue of it, I suppose Windows kept track of the time stamps and if so, I might be able to provide find those details. 😜

full lap, hawkwind - heads

https://www.keisaristudios.com/ Keisari Studios has introduced a new open-source dynamic clipper effect plugin for Windows and Mac. Leikkaus comes with detailed controls for clipping, including ceiling and ratio, input, output and mix. The plugin also comes with options for gain compensation, oversampling (2x), and delta, which outputs the difference between the input and processed signal. The plugin is housed in a resizable GUI, which supports and scales up to 4k monitors. Released as open source (GPLv3), Leikkaus is available to download in VST3 and AU plugin formats for Windows and Mac

I hope this helps:

I watch and like his videos. And I definitely agree with your premise on the revenue model. You're exactly right. If this is ever going to work, the compensation for these folks needs to come from the buying public, not the seller of the products being "reviewed"developer. I salute you for putting your money where your mouth is. Even so, the problem still exists that we're merely relying on the word and blind trust of the influencer that they're not accepting compensation and gifts from the companies who make the products that they review when they have no clear standards they're held to and no oversight in place. Whereas journalist reviewers of esteemed publications follow journalism principles and ethics standards and have an editor who ensures accountability. I suppose I might be open to sponsoring a reviewer IF s/he he would sign an agreement with rules that s/he promised to abide by, such as not accepting anything of value from a company with a product being reviewed; that the even the review copy was not his/her property after the review was finished; that s/he fully abide by all government regulations; that there will be no discussions of potential future financial relationships or gifts with any of developers whose products are reviewed; and that any personal relationships with a developer or an employee of a developer must be fully and clearly disclosed (e.g., I'm dating the marketing manager). But even that takes blind trust that the influencer will abide by the agreement. Still, it beats where we're at today.

No need. He knew it already. My aunt and uncle lived in Lutcher, right next door to Gramercy. Just outside of Gramercy was a Kaiser aluminum plant. I went to live with them. Know that smell well.

Nice song and playing.

Thank you very much Krupa it works, i was on the way to try the step sequencer and compare this too!

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (Live)

Thank you for the kind words, man! Not so far. This is one of those songs which I'd originally planned of having my now ex-wife sing. I'll either have to reach out to another friend who's always willing to help or to sing it myself (meh).