John T

Yeah, I really like this feature. Needs a bit of refinement; I've managed to make it do some weird stuff. But when it works right, it's great.

Yeah, that was it.

Huh, how odd. I definitely got a notification and installed. But just found another update via the help menu, so that must be it.

I've just downloaded the latest version:

... and the release notes say

• Custom Display Scale Slider (Experimental)
• The Display tab of the Preferences now features a slider to adjust the display scaling of the app independently from the global Windows display setting. Note that this feature is still in early development and there may be issues when applying a custom app value.

However, I'm still not seeing that in preferences:

When I see some of the stuff people get dramatic about on the internet, I can barely imagine how they deal with an actual problem. 

Seems to me that if you're not interested in the soft release version, you can just ignore it. I don't see the problem.

Since this seems to be the thread for this kind of thing:

The little diagrams of the crossfade options are missing in the new Sonar. I think that's bad for quick readability.

Also, sonically, there is nothing stopping you from making great sounding music in Sonar 4. If your music sounds bad, 64-bit plugins will not fix that for you.

Your life is not ruined, and you are mistaking the concept of "can't" for "don't want to".

Now this is an interesting leak!

I'm not seeing that?

 

There's nothing like that right now; the scaling is all based on your global Windows settings.

I do hope we see that sort of thing in future though. I expect it's relatively trivial once the main framework for this stuff is up and running.

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.

This thread is like putting an unopened bag of popcorn in front of you and shouting POP! POP! POP!

I have a suspicion - and you can call me crazy if you like - that the price will become known when - and this is a bit out of left field, I know - the price is announced.

I also think that the before the price is announced, the price will not be known.

That's what I was getting at; it's a pretty broad term. That's a really wide range of possible specs.

What specifically do they mean by HD?

I didn't say it couldn't be a horrifying trauma.

29 minutes ago, mettelus said:

If people bought a car and the manufacturer said, "Yeah, we didn't think about headlights, but it is definitely on our upgrade radar! Just don't drive it a night." People would freak.

Sure, but you can't die in a DAW crash. It's not an especially meaningful comparison.

2 hours ago, CSistine said:

Sorry, but Ripple Editing was already a part of Sonar Platinum!

Hmm. Sonar Platinum came out in 2015. Ripple editing was added in 2017.

I dunno, the thing gets updates all the time, and has done for years. This is some alternate reality nonsense we're diving into here.

9 hours ago, Pathfinder said:

So they both install to the original CW directory? Just checking.  Thanks and sorry but I couldn't find the answer.

No, it installs to its own folder. I've got both installed side by side without issues.

That 20 years claim is so silly, I can only assume the poster doesn't even want to be taken seriously.

No worries!

I think it'll be interesting if more of us have a mess around with it and report our thoughts.

I get the feeling quite a lot of posts are coming from people who've just seen screen shots. And that's valid, of course. But I've found that using it has changed my mind about a lot of my initial screen shot impressions.

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13 minutes ago, Pathfinder said:

Sorry if I missed this but:

Can I install next and Sonar juts to take a look without enrolling?

Thanks

Yes, that's what I've done. Saving and exporting are disabled, but otherwise, it's fully functional.

Scroll to the very bottom of the page on this link and click "download" for Sonar.

https://www.cakewalk.com/sonar

45 minutes ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

Though my main personal nitpick with the change to the vector UI is the 15% size increase. How is it not possible to maintain the exact same interface size from before when you have freely scalable graphics.

I'm not seeing that. I've done a comparison with both apps running, and everything is almost exactly the same size.