Noel Borthwick

I understand that something is causing instability in your configuration but you are making a lot of assumptions about the software itself being the root cause of the problem before any dignosis has been done. There are numerous causes for instability that are outside of the scope of the program. We have thousands of professional users successfully using Sonar and it is far more stable than CbB was. That said, every system can be different and a problem one user sees may never be seen by others due to variations in software/plugins etc. Until we get crash dumps no determination can be made in such cases. And no it will not be possible to use CbB from Aug. Its been superceded by Sonar and thats the only product being supported going forward. Where did you send your problem report? If it was a dump you can also PM me a link.

PM the link

Yes and that has been the behavior for decades. It's nothing to do with this version of Sonar.

Read the official FAQ at the bottom of this page where everything about Cbb is explained. https://www.cakewalk.com/sonar This is not the post to get into that.

Sonar will automatically replace TH3 with THU when you open projects containing TH3 as long as you have "Replace if possible on project load" checked in VST3 migration as below. Note for this to work, you must have THU installed on the PC.

If you want help be productive and submit proper problem reports. Sarcastic comments wont help solve your problem.

Can you send a sample project that can demonstrate this difference? There are no changes I know of in Sonar that could make it worse.

Product center can only monitor products that were installed via product center. If you installed it years ago via a different installer it has no knowledge of it. Its expected behavior.

That is quite weird, the reason for no app windows is likely why it crashes. When it pops the membership screen can youn check in task manager if Sonar is running still? Also please try unplugging your audio interface and retry. When it's in that state before clicking continue can you capture a dump file and PM it to me? Hopefully it can show why the app window isnt running. If you need help on how to capture a dump see this post.

Yes of course, its intentional. If you are running in the free tier there is a delay on startup and popups when you try and use features that are premium. If you don't want that, take advantage of the promotional price and purchase a membership. This is very likely to be something specific to your project or the presence of control surfaces possibly. Have you tried this with a new project? File open is a system dialog that we don't want to replace because it has windows defined functionality. Most Windows apps use it.

Not seeing anything like you describe. Plugin window positions are being retained if you move them, close and reopen. If you are talking about closing one plugin and opening another, then that will definitely open in the last position. The position is global. If thats what you are talking about its by design and this shouldnt be posted in this thread. Its a feature request not a bug at all. All versions of Sonar do this. In any case it has nothing to do with recycling windows.

This is unlikely to be a redist issue. The membership screen should always be shown only when the app is visible in the background. Start a new thread and attach a video to show the problem.

This has been addressed for the next release.

If its already running Cbb then its a very good chance it will work as well or better. You can easily verify for yourself by downloading Sonar and running the Free tier with your largest project.

No without activation the program cannot save or export.