Jonathan Sasor

It's a separate install from the app itself, but it's available in either the updates tab of Sonar or CPC. I've used Drum Replacer on stuff on many occasions over the years, just have to dial it in.

Themes from previous CbB/SONAR versions are not compatible with the latest Sonar which has a vector based UI instead of bitmaps.

Sonar's Free tier includes Drum Replacer and the Studio Instruments suite, which if you already have CbB will then already be available to Sonar. TTS-1 was removed from Sonar/CbB installers a while back at Roland's request due to their desire to drop support for it.

It won't.

Yes, contact the Community Team and they should be able to get you back into your account.

There's a product center issue with it not seeing that the PC modules have installed. The updates tab in Sonar recognizes it though. The included modules are PC2A and Concrete Limiter. No new plugins were included with the update, but the scanner will pick up changes for XSampler (which builds with every Sonar build) or if anything else has otherwise changed on the system.

This is a setting in the Insert Soft Synth Options. Note the "Open These Windows" part on the right.

Plugins from legacy versions will be available, but in-app things such as the dithering algorithm are not available in the free tier.

Everything should migrate fine moving from any legacy Cakewalk app to Cakewalk Sonar.

Session Drummer has been included with Sonar for since that version launched. It just has a separate installer from the main app.

Try again, everything looks good for your account as far as I can see, it's possible that something might not have updated yet on the back end when you tried previously. All of the add-ons are also available to download within Sonar itself as well.

You can download the latest update via Cakewalk Product Center.

Generally speaking, yes. If you've been running CbB without issue, Sonar should be okay.

You can think of it more like a recommended minimum. Can it run with less than 8? Yes. Will it run as well? No. Does anything prevent you from trying it on a system below those specs? Nope. EDIT: Unless you're trying to run on an older version of Windows...

If you're running CbB fine, you should also be fine with Sonar, so long as you're on Windows 10 or 11.

I'm not seeing any issues with how this is working on our end. Please try creating a new project with an audio clip and see if it works correctly there.

Please provide specifics as to what version of Windows you're running and what the display scaling is set to.

Please provide specifics and fill out the problem report form. Details on how to capture a dump file can be found here.

The phrasing was updated for build 48 that dropped on Friday. It now says "Activation Refreshes on: [date]"

This is just referring to when the app needs to refresh its lease. If you're online, it'll just automatically get this and you can keep working at the free tier, no issue.

You can change the language in the Preferences:

Are you able to access the menus at all in this state?

It refreshes the license periodically in the same way that CbB does now.

Evaluation is the free tier, that does not expire.

Minus any new features not in CbB, projects are backwards compatible. Same as opening a CbB project in SONAR Platinum. The apps install alongside one another just as CbB did to Platinum as well.