Kborn

Yep, Waves has files everywhere. I do like some of the vst instruments and some of the vst effects. But I’ve been pleased with most of the effects that comes with Sonar. Well I’m glad that updates are being made to Sonar which is now Cakewalk by Bandlab. I wasn’t aware that Cakewalk Bandlab was a subscription license deal. I hear what you are saying a lot of software companies are going to the online subscription deal. I didn’t realize the Cakewalk licensing server is still running, and that I’m still able to download old Cakewalk software.

I'm really not looking for anything, It's news to me that I have to sign on every 6 months to keep it from going into demo mode.

Not really, I have been with cakewalk since the DOS day’s and pretty much invested in cakewalk all the way up to Platinum. But I can’t complain because this is the direction that bandlab is taking the software product. I wish they would have honoured the ones that has a licensed copy of Platinum and just continued the path that cakewalk was walking. Wonder what other little things we will find we have to do since cakewalk is free.

Hey everyone, I did run a Ethernet line to my studio computer and downloaded cakewalk by bandlab. It basically saw all of my plugin's from sonar and installed everything. Still slow when loading. What did most of you all who was running Sonar Platinum do with Sonar Platinum? Did you just uninstall it?

I noticed that the free version requires you to sign in on line. My computer that I use sonar to record with is not online, can you install without going online?

What's the difference in Sonar Platinum and Cakewalk by Bandlab?

Hey, thanks for you responds. Yes I have my plugin scan set to Manual. Right now I'm going through cakewalk plug in manager and excluding plugin's that I don't use. Wave does install a lot of vst effect plug-in's along with the vst instrument plugin's. I have 20gig of memory I'm running windows 10 Pro. My processor is a i5-2500k @ 3.30GHz. So far the one's that I have excluded still hasn't helped.

Anyone having a problem with sonar Platinum loading slow. I did install waves complete, I think it started then.