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2 hours ago, John T said:

Not seen any comment on the latest update yet. New Mercury Classic and Tungsten Classic themes look really good, IMO, and address a number of points raised in this thread.

The more I use it, the more I'm growing to really appreciate the clean lines everywhere

I aee no difference whatsoever between the 2 versions for load times, cpu usage or ram usage

3 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

It means if you do any singing into the daw while recording a midi track the singing will be recorded onto the midi track aswell as the midi information,

I assume the singing will be in midi also, which is amazing seeing as midi stands for "musical instrument digital interface" and has nothing to do with singing.

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It's got nothing to do with singing. Where did you get this from?

6 hours ago, ptheisen said:

As with most things in life, there is no perfect solution.

Applying the offset and exporting the new positions is good from an audio  standpoint, perhaps this is the most important.

From a visual standpoint, the notes in the new positions will look slightly out of place in the piano roll view, and perhaps even more so in the staff view. Also, there is no way to negatively offset a note that starts at 0:00:000, so you'll want to pad the beginning of your song with some empty time.

Padding the beginning of a song is good, normal practice, irrespective of enabling artic offsetting to occur

2 hours ago, John Nelson said:

So far, users have to wrap our heads around,

1. The announcement was made, what, nine months ago?  It's uncommon to say the least for a rollout to take this along. Especially since....

2. There really are no feature updates. Just a HiDPI update and some bug fixes, which is expected from any product.

3. There has been zero clarity as to how much the thing will sell for and how it will be paid.  The "pssst, over here" Bandlab sneak peek thing is lame. Sorry, it just is.  Someone who subscribes to Bandlab just for the Sonar access might end up paying twice one the real pricing is rolled out.  This is the weirdest, softest rollout of any software I have ever seen, bar none.

4. And Bandlab...some legacy Cakewalk Plugins and Virtual Instruments aren't really worth much of anything in 2024. Session Drummer?  Concrete Limiter? C'mon man.

Regarding 2 - you're wrong. see here

4 minutes ago, Matthew Carr said:

Absolutely! As a software dev myself I would really not want this task - tons and tons of effort to produce something that will undoubtedly come in for criticism along the lines of either  'it's not exactly the same as before!' or 'it's basically the same, why have you not spent all that time on adding features!' 😒

Haven't had a play yet myself, but from what I see it's looking good and the inevitable snags are being picked up and being resolved quickly - let's not forget this is still an 'early access' build to get feedback, so there will be improvements to come.

Bitmaps can add eye candy, but for many reasons are not how modern UIs are composed . This update is essential to support Sonar going forward. Nice work Bakers!

Agree with all of this

Build 403, downloaded just now appears to have fixed it.

This little bug must have occured recently, because I already managed to use save & save as a couple of days ago.

But now they've disappeared

Missing commands:

Save

Save As

Save Copy As

Import

Export

Browse Bandlab Projects

Publish to Bandlab

4 hours ago, Heinz Hupfer said:

HI:) 
Sorry but does this make sense? Why not 1980 x 1200, 125% scaling?

Can't understand 250% scaling!

Bassman.

Those were Microsofts "recommended" settings when I first got the laptop. No other reason. I might play around with the settings, see if it makes a difference

5 hours ago, Morten Saether said:

I'm curious: can you please share your screen resolution and display scaling?

Sure. This is on a 17.6" laptop, 3840 x 2400, 250% scaling

I've not had chance to try it out on my studio rig yet

9 hours ago, Hillmy said:

Sonar isn't available for purchase yet and CbB will be discontinued and inaccessible after Sonar is released. Consider CbB that you use now as a free trial and the Sonar that you get now before it is released is just a beta version and will only work until the completed version is released. 

So I would advise not making anything related to Cakewalk/Sonar/Next your main anything or permanently move anything to it. Because IT WILL CHANGE SOON! 

1. Funny that, loads of us are currently using Sonar so to say it isn't available is plain wrong

2. The only reason the current installation will change is due to maintenance releases. 

You're really on a massive stretch about all this for some reason.

This thread needs locking. It's only going to end up one way.

And Console View

Here's a screenshot of Track View using the Light theme

Maybe you should have sorted out the activation issue before doing any work.

For those of you struggling to see the NEW spectrum analyzer, go into Console View. Under Options > EQ and Plot > Show Spectrum Analyzer

6 hours ago, Promidi said:

Just tried it and I am not seeing that behaviour here.

Can you give us more information?

Are you sure you’re using track FX not clip FX

That was my first thought

Seems to be working fine here. 

If it helps, these are the settings on my laptop

Thanks!

Ok guys, any idea what's happening here? all VST'S - VST2 & VST3 are  opening up REALLY small and cannot be scaled any bigger

I can't see this anywhere. Where is it?

8 hours ago, John Vere said:

Cakewalk by Bandlab is Sonar Platinum! Didn’t you ever realize that? And the new Sonar is just the latest version of Cakewalk by Bandlab. 
And paid or not,  we all got free updates up until now. You didn’t if you ignored what was going on and stayed with Splat. 

The vocal strip is found in plug in manager under Excluded. I think they  chose this because it’s old  so is use at own risk. Seems to work fine last time I tried it. 

VX64 (and PX64) were both hidden/excluded due to instability issues. This may be resoved when the new Sonar is released.

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1 minute ago, Glenn Stanton said:

HAL, please open the pod doors.

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that