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I opened a CWP from 2010 since a client wanted me to work on it. In Sonar I couldn't open the synthrack and browser. Cakewalk support verified the bug, which if I had Sonar premium I could have fixed it by putting the Workspace as None. I found another solution, open CbB and save the file with the synthrack open. I'm glad this happened before 8/1/25

I've used Cakewalk since 1992 with DOS. I will start using it on projects this week and hopefully there won't be any showstopper bugs. I've seen that in the past, I'm just a Murphy's law type guy. Personally I think it'll be fine

It seems like when I got the activation notice, I didnt' have to do it right away. I doubt if any of this will be an issue for me, but I'm sure others are curious how long before it's not working. i wonder how one can find out the installation update cycle

I installed Sonar Free and I have several CAL scripts that I have assigned to Shortcuts. I tested them and they work fine. Have you installed Sonar Free? If so try out your CAL scripts

Activation ends on 8/1 but it's unclear how long CbB will work after 8/1 or if it'll work at all

I agree. This needs to be addressed pronto. I turned in a bug report about the Colors not working at all. they're working on it. Check out my detailed post about the Themes and Colors today 7/13

Thanks Noel this is very helpful. I printed it and will study it more. I've been using CbB, so I haven't paid much attention to the new Sonar until now. Is there a fairly concise view of the new features and improvements going from CbB to Sonar?

The keyboard Shortcut problem is now fixed for me. I sent in a bug report, their excellent team, who responded within a day, had me try a few things and mentioned disabling any Macro Programs I had working in the background. I've used macro Express for decades and I needed to create an exception in my Macro for Control F3 and F4, so it wouldn't' be active with Sonar.Exe. I already had exceptions for Cakewalk.exe and Platinum

Here are screenshots of the exact same song. I tried all the new Color Schemes and Mercury was the closest. Cakewalk in the past did a super job with the way the interface looked. With CbB and Platinum, I used a Logic Theme and did a lot of tweaking to get it the way I wanted it. I hope they'll give us some tools to tweak their Color Schemes, we can then trade them like we did in the past. There were about 30 or more user-edited Themes I could choose from years ago. CbB Sonar - Mercury Color Scheme

It works perfectly. I long had wished CbB had this feature. Thanks

That's correct, but they can't be changed or edited. I exported CbB colors and imported them into Sonar. There was no change. And the preferences/colors doesn't work at all. i turned in a bug report on this one. In fact, the Color Schemes can't be edited like we have in CbB and Platinum. Someone, I think he was from Cakewalk said it's new UI that presently can't be edited like our old Theme Editor. Possibly we can do that in the future, I hope. This is not for esthetic reasons, it's for my workflow, so I can quickly visually find things.

V-Vocal will crash if there are any soft synths open. Not sure what processing stops are.

Themes are not part of the new Sonar due to changes in the UI. My Theme i developed years ago did not get imported from CbB. And the preferences/colors doesn't work at all. i turned in a bug report on this one. I hope later there is a Theme editor

At times, I may have 10 or so soft synths open and which to disconnect or temporarily disable them. I have to click each button, some take a while to turn off. Is there an easier way?

I installed Sonar Free on 2 different computers and got the same results of this Bug. Go to Preferences / Customization / Colors. Select all, change all the colors to light blue. Show strip Colors is checked save changes for next session is checked. Of course at first I tried less drastic changes. I'm disappointed that there are no Themes and no Theme Editor. I did extensive work on my Theme, which makes my work-flow work so much better, being able to see things clearly,