Colin Nicholls

I've never used Video tracks in Sonar so take this with a grain of salt. Maybe this is a "use the right tool for the job" situation. What I would do is the following. I would either do the project in something like DaVinci Resolve (which is free) rather than Sonar, or, I would play the video on another device or computer, and would talk.speak along with the video and get that track recorded in Sonar, then take my "final" audio and line it up with my guide track that I previously record. (Unless you are providing the audio track yourself, then your guide track can be your actual track)

Well, some people just can't stand that 13 second wait during application startup, so there's that We are told that exciting things are in the pipeline that will be Full/Subscription only. I recommend you use the Free Tier until such time as the new features are announced, and make your decision about upgrading then. If there is one thing that is very clear over the last few years, is that there is no one strategy that BandLab can take that will make EVERYONE happy 😄

Those checkboxes used to work in an earlier release... I think this is a regression. Look for normal functionality to be restored soon I would expect. Hey, @John T I recommend documenting each of the issues you've identified, clearly in a top level post for maximum visibility.

It's not absolute. Many folks have reported the exact opposite; that Sonar performs BETTER than CbB on the same project. So there must be some other factor here.

Where, somehow, there will be no learning curve? My experience shows that Sonar will open projects saved in CbB and there is no discernible difference. Cut and Paste work exactly the same. The only reason they would save to a different location is if you chose to do so with Save as.. If you register Sonar as the default application for opening .cwp files then they will all open in Sonar. 12Tone/Cakewalk/BandLab have always put effort into ensuring that almost any version of their DAW can open a project saved with any other version, it's actually pretty amazing that they've done this. If there is a saved feature that is not supported, it just won't use that feature, and so long as you don't save, it will be retained in the project if you chose to then open it in a later version.

This has been reported and accepted as an issue, and I'm pretty sure it will be addressed in an update at some point soon.

That looks like a bad memory chip doesn't it, or something.

Hi John, unfortunately that is correct. Themes are not supported in the new Sonar. It uses an entirely different graphics/display engine (vector based, not bitmaps) as part of the High-DPI support. It's early days, though, and BandLab/Cakewalk haven't ruled out bringing back some form of user-customization for colors in Sonar. I fully expect to see some kind of theming back in the product in the near future but it won't be based on the previous theming engine, and those Cakewalk themes will not be compatible. The built-in themes (more than just Tungsten and Mercury!) do a good job and being generally acceptable to most people but of course there's always something that, if only we could tweak slightly, would make it perfect 🙂 I hope that helps.

I would think it was a problem if you chose "Basic" and then decide you'd actually prefer the fuller menu set... etc. with no way to back out of the initial choice.

Some other DAWS or Audio programs may reset the buffer size and other ASIO settings , but Sonar just opens and uses the ASIO settings at whatever they currently were set to last. SO if you are comparing DAWs or whatever, double check before you open a project in Sonar that the ASIO buffer settings are where you expect them to be.

This happens to me whenever I un-dock the Synth Rack. It never seems to remember how I last sized it in Floating state.

A MIDI track is just that, a MIDI track. You can create one completely independent of any virtual synth. Ctrl-Shift-T or right -click in the left pane of the Track (Arrangement) View and select "Insert MIDI track" It will point to the default MIDI output but you could create an empty Drum Map and point the MIDI track to that.

Shift-C Also Right-click on the space next to the icons to get more options

Citation needed

Ah, I see. Yes, you do.

Did this change? I thought it had always been C:\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Themes

Yes, I believe so. I mean, technically one of the perks of a paid BandLab membership is access to the Full version of Sonar (with no nag screen and many extra features over the Free Tier version.) I don't want to put myself up for being challenged by The Internet as to whether this is "the same thing as paying for" but essentially yes.

The "Unable to Sign In" warning appears to be benign. It's annoying though. I don't really need yet another notification that I don't have connectivity. The only time that toast notifiction should appear is if it genuinely needs to connect to a server in order to fully function. (Oh, and don't get me started about VST plugins that sit and wait during load because they are trying to "phone home", only to give up and continue working as expected )

You know I'm never going to overlook an opportunity... I have no idea how the colors are assigned internally but my guess is that there is some kind of lookup table of "named color element = #000000". We don't need a Theme Editor - we just need to be able to drop an appropriately formatted text file into a specific location to have Sonar recognize it as an alternative theme source. I realize it isn't quite that simple - you'd need to validate the file structure as "good" before adding it to the list of available themes. Back in the day we used to use XML/XSD for that, no need to write a document format validator from scratch, just define the .XSD. Ideally, there would be a default lookup table that our custom color maps would "overlay" rather than replacing, but you know I'd be happy if I had to provide the entire color map without any shortcut. Anyway. Keep up the good work. We have faith!

Where have you been? Nope. There's quite a selection of built-in color themes; maybe one of them will take your fancy.

HI, @Steve Ennever See the image below. Track 1 is primarily directed to Master (by default) but I have also created a SEND to Bus B, and I'm about to create a second SEND to Bus C having right-clicked on some empty space in the Track Header. After that, Track 1 will be simultaneously outputting to Bus A (Master) and Bus B and Bus C

Hi, @BATTLEHAMSTER, welcome to the forum. Yes, you're in luck: You can cross-grade to the new Sonar for only $179/year, discounted to $79 for the first year.

Welcome to the forum. It sucks you're experiencing the behavior you describe. It's definitely not typical. I hope you get to the bottom of it.

The latest I heard was that, although they haven't ruled out the possibility of more user-configurable color customization options surfacing in the app in the future, there is no active development of a Theme Editor at this time.

Interesting. It isn't included in the feature matrix in this post