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48 minutes ago, Gerald Clark said:

Sorry.. this was the right thread.

Since upgrading, I can no longer open any projects while my Sound device (UA Volt2) is turned on.  If it's off, then I can open Cakewalk fine, but can't do anything (no sound device).  If it's on I get the first menu screen to recent projects, but when I try to open one it hangs on the 'almost done' for ever and I have to kill the task.  The device works fine in my score notator and in every other respect, so seems like an issue with Cakewalk. 

With Cakewalk closed, rename your aud.ini file to aud.old and let Cakewalk recreate it for you.

It requires activation now or activation expires in xx days?

On 3/30/2024 at 2:03 PM, Timothy Harris said:

Same here after installing 2024.02, except now half of my tracks don't play any sound. All are on Master. I am NOT a newbie. It's definitely a 2024.02 thing. All tracks played fine on the previous version. If this isn't fixed soon i will not be buying Cakewalk Sonar.

Operator error or something wrong with your setup...

3 hours ago, jkoseattle said:

For example, had this Cakewalk error said something like:

"The above audio/MIDI device was disconnected from your system. It's a USB device, so either something got unplugged, or else the USB controller for it was turned off in Windows to save power when your computer went to sleep. You can disable this feature in Windows in the Device Manager, (where the controllers have various different names, such as "Generic USB Hub"). Doing this will leave your Cakewalk outputs on even when the computer has gone to sleep. But if you did in fact unplug something, would you like Cakewalk to reroute these outputs to an available device?" Click "No" to keep current settings."

... that would have been better.

That would be an error thesis, not an error message...
Lol!

1 hour ago, jkoseattle said:

Wow, thanks! All those controllers had that option checked, so I've unchecked them. What an arcane solution, I'd have never found it. (Assuming this is the solution)

Not really arcane, widely known and makes sense.
I also turn off power management on host controller and mass storage devices on my daw.

Sounds like your usb devices are going to sleep. Turn that off.

6 hours ago, Terry Kelley said:

I got the Sonar 'This version has expired.' A sign of things to come.

? Trial version expiring comes to mind to me...

Did you check the Enhanced Display Scaling for the plug?

The Bandlab app is no longer supported. You can always use the Cakewalk Product Center app.

Did you try signing out and then signing back in with Cakewalk?

1 minute ago, Pathfinder said:

OK since I am leaving anyway I have to say, I was signed in MORON that's part of the point-JEEEEZZz the arrogance is unreal!

Name-calling? Classy!

1 minute ago, sjoens said:

Activation in itself is confusing because simply signing in to BandLab will not activate Sonar.  I went thru the same routine several times before realizing this.

It is my understanding that Unpaid, it is just like the Demos of old.  Evaluation only.  Saving disabled.  You must sign up for a paid BandLab membership or temporary Back Stage pass in order to save your work.  If you have done that and still have issues, contact support.

His rant is about Cakewalk, not Sonar.

Couldn't be any easier...
Two options here.

3 hours ago, Pathfinder said:

Yes, so? What's your point? I tried and tried multiple times top activate it. 

So don't complain about losing work if you knew you wouldn't be able to save, you should have sorted out the activation before doing any work.

46 minutes ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Maybe you should have sorted out the activation issue before doing any work.

BINGO!!!

Did you not see the big warning about activation when you started Cakewalk???

57 minutes ago, John Vere said:

You mean I'm going to have to read the manual!! how absurd! 

Haven't you put out a video about that subject yet?

9 hours ago, John Vere said:

 Anyhow, where is the new one? I don't see anything ( not that anything is that visible now)

Did you enable them?

17 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Exactly. This is a mystery to me  that people are talking about a spectrum analyzer being new?? 
 

Not only the fly out anymore.

6 hours ago, CSistine said:

Tell me, who does not already have a couple of spectrum analyzers? Don't misunderstand me, it's nice, but no reason to jump to Sonar!

Not integrated into the tracks

Hasn't slowed anything down here.

58 minutes ago, CSistine said:

So it seems the only real change is the look of Sonar vs. CbB! If you do not have a high resolution monitor/graphics, then this is not worth much!

Also in the list of bug fixes I could almost find nothing that is of interest to me! But YMMV!

Absolute time instead of musical time for track delays is huge! That's not a look.

56 minutes ago, CSistine said:

So it seems the only real change is the look of Sonar vs. CbB! If you do not have a high resolution monitor/graphics, then this is not worth much!

Also in the list of bug fixes I could almost find nothing that is of interest to me! But YMMV!

I wouldn't call the new per-track built-in spectrum analyzer to be a change in the look.

51 minutes ago, CSistine said:

So it seems the only real change is the look of Sonar vs. CbB! If you do not have a high resolution monitor/graphics, then this is not worth much!

Also in the list of bug fixes I could almost find nothing that is of interest to me! But YMMV!

Project Preview is huge to me.

22 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Please don’t throw rocks at me but my list of “bugs “ were 100% pilots error.

Usually are

1 minute ago, Alan Bachman said:

Are there any issues at all about having Sonar and CWB on the C drive?  Any reduction of performance of either noted?

No