John Vere Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 (edited) The release notes: February 28, 2024 2024.02 What's New UI refresh Sonar has been completely refeshed with a clean new UI. The UI refresh is an ongoing effort and will continue to be updated in future releases. New dark and light color schemes Sonar includes several color themes, including Dark, Dark Gray, Light, Light Gray, Tungsten, Mercury, and Cosmic. Additional color themes will be added in the future. Support for enhanced display scaling Improves rendering and reduces blurriness, particularly for font rendering. Enhanced display scaling may sharpen graphics and make text easier to read. Improvements will be most noticeable when using large, high resolution displays (such as 4K) and with Windows display scaling set higher than 100%. Per plugin enhanced display scaling for VST plugins. New Quick Start screen Open a recent project, open an existing project, create a new project from a template, download and open demo projects, preview projects, update the app. Project preview Preview projects from the Quick Start screen’s Local Projects page if you have exported a designated preview file. Configuration backup/restore Save and load backups of your Sonar configuration settings. Cakewalk Interchange Format (CXF) The Cakewalk Interchange Format (CXF) is a Cakewalk cross platform inter-app project file format, used to exchange projects between Sonar and Next. CXF files exported from either application can be opened or imported in both apps. CXF is a transitory format only used for exchange. It is not intended for archival storage or backing up since the format can change at any time. Cakewalk ZIP Format (CWZ) The new Cakewalk ZIP (.cwz) file format is intended for backing up projects, and is also useful for moving Sonar projects from one computer to another. Cakewalk ZIP is recommended over the older Cakewalk Bundle (CWB/BUN) format, because it does not compact the audio data, and therefore supports AudioSnap clips. Track Manager enhancements The Track Manager lets you configure which tracks are visible in the Track view and Console view, and you can create per-project presets to quickly show specific sets of tracks. Per-track spectrum analyzer display in the Console view and Inspector. ProChannel Concrete Limiter module ProChannel Concrete Limiter is a transparent look-ahead brickwall peak limiter. It is designed to reduce peak levels without coloring the sound. VX-64 Vocal Strip VX-64 Vocal Strip is a multi-functional plugin that combines a series of effects specifically optimized and streamlined for vocal processing. Combining compression, expansion, equalization, de-essing, doubling, delay and tube saturation in one convenient plug-in, VX-64 Vocal Strip is designed to make it fast an easy to enhance any vocal track. Project Start and End markers The Project Start and Project End markers define the playback range and the export range when exporting the entire project, and can also be used as Snap to Grid landmarks. Automation smoothing when recording Automation smoothing now also applies to recording automation in real-time. Specify the default automation curve type for drawing automation envelopes Offset mode enhancements To make it easier to visualize if a track parameter has an offset applied, Sonar shows the parameter value in an amber color when Offset mode is not active, and the parameter tooltip shows the offset value. In-app hang detection Sonar can now detect hangs and save a minidump file, which allows you to easily submit minidump files to Cakewalk support for analysis. Optimization for Intel processors Improvements to reduce CPU load when streaming silence with certain plug-ins that generate denormals. Double-click to expand/collapse docked windows (MultiDock, Inspector, and Browser) Toast notification when a control surface is disabled on launch Sonar now shows a notification if you start the app while a control surface is disconnected. External Insert ports now persist in track templates Audio port assignments for the External Insert plug-in are now persisted in track templates. Assignable key bindings to quickly show/hide tracks in the Track view and Console view Create sends by dragging effects to channel strips (audio track, instrument track, aux track, or bus) Additional snap landmarks New Snap to Grid landmarks include Arranger Section Start Time, Arranger Section End Time, Project Start Marker, and Project End Marker. Create tracks routed to aux tracks or patch points The Add Track menu now allows you to create tracks that are routed to a new aux track or patch point. Deleting a tempo in the Tempo Inspector sets the focus to the next tempo in the list Press F2 to rename markers in the Markers view The meter scale for Instrument tracks changes from a MIDI scale (vertical piano keys) to an audio dB scale when the track is frozen Remove all crossfades in the current selection with the new Track view Clips > Remove Selected Crossfades command Ability to select all tracks/buses in a control group The new Select Tracks/Buses in Group menu command on the control group context menu makes it easy to automatically select all tracks and buses that have controls that are a member of the current control’s group. Once selected, use quick grouping to adjust all tracks simultensously. Clicking Sonar logo in Control Bar opens Quick Start Screen Preview Bus is now a project-wide setting Preview Bus and Synth output assignment is now applied across the entire project rather than per view. Preview bus assignment can now be managed directly from the bus/mains/aux track context menus or directly from the main Project menu. An aux track can now be designated as a preview bus. Report bugs via the in-app Help > Report a Problem menu command Specify default synth for use in Add Track flyout menu Set via synth track context menu or Synth Rack menu. Quicker access to plugin settings The plugin toolbar now has a Settings menu button that provides direct access to Enhanced DPI scaling and plugin upsampling settings. Friendly names for plugins (set in the Browser) are now displayed in FX racks Note: This will apply to new instances of the plugin. Existing ones will still show the actual plugin name. New instances will show the friendly name. Track Scale Zoom is now quick-groupable You can now zoom the waveform or MIDI notes in all selected tracks by holding down the CTRL key and dragging up/down in the track scale. New plugins coming soon - to be announced. Cakewalk Product Center Cakewalk Product Center allows you to download and install Cakewalk products from one central location. Simply sign in with your BandLab ID and password and begin installing your connected products. Stay up to date with the latest features and fixes. Edited March 5 by John Vere 9 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Wynn Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Played around with it a bit tonight. Loaded a huge project that uses all of my UAD Octo card, lots of Acustica Audio Plug-ins, more Acustica Audio plugs via Audigridder to two Ethernet connected laptops… No issues noted ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Kelley Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 (edited) Been playing with it. Seems nice but I need to dig into some of the improvements. It generally feels like CbB overall (expected.) I have a couple of overloaded project using Augmented Strings and Voice, TW16x and Emulator on top of a bunch of VSTs. Unless I freeze some tracks it will stutter like crazy. It played smoothly in Sonar but that's anecdotal at best. But it did work! Edited March 5 by Terry Kelley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutrageProductions Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 And still no negative pre-roll measures or on-board sampler track... no surprise. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 An in app sampler is planned soon. It will be similar to whats in Cakewalk Next (XSampler) so you can check it out there. 5 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Yep seems all very much like a re skin of Sonar / Cakewalk. I like the Cosmic “theme?” Seem to be a different set up there. Overall nothing seems changed in moving around etc. One observation is TTS-1 hasn’t been removed in this version yet. And yes I was disappointed that some of the cool things included with Next were missing. No Stem Separation either. But the release notes I posted above you will observe a huge list of stuff that was mostly requested fixes and features here on the forum so that’s awesome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Quote Per plugin enhanced display scaling for VST plugins. would be nice if this fixed crashes from PC "compatible" plugins, like, ahem, Softube FET Compressor where the width of the UI is not compatible with the restriction from the PC UI and thus hard crashes CbB (and Sonar etc). the Softube FET works fine in the normal FX slot or in a PC FX chain, but not as a PC FX (which is one of its features). so properly scaling it would (hopefully) allow it to then function as a PC FX directly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustabo Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 3 hours ago, John Vere said: One observation is TTS-1 hasn’t been removed in this version yet. If you had it installed already, you'll retain it. According to the latest CbB release notes: "The TTS-1 synth is no longer installed by Cakewalk, by request from Roland. This product is no longer supported and has reached end of life. Older installed versions may continue to work but it is no longer a default for insert instrument." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 I know but it was still showing as the default instrument. InCBB it is now removed and just says Midi only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustabo Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 19 minutes ago, John Vere said: I know but it was still showing as the default instrument. InCBB it is now removed and just says Midi only. Set it as the default then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 I can't see this anywhere. Where is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 6 hours ago, John Vere said: Yep seems all very much like a re skin of Sonar / Cakewalk. I like the Cosmic “theme?” Seem to be a different set up there. Overall nothing seems changed in moving around etc. One observation is TTS-1 hasn’t been removed in this version yet. And yes I was disappointed that some of the cool things included with Next were missing. No Stem Separation either. But the release notes I posted above you will observe a huge list of stuff that was mostly requested fixes and features here on the forum so that’s awesome. TTS-1 has been removed... it's just that Sonar will default to TTS-1 if it's already installed. Sonar has the option to choose a default synth, so it will be the one shown in the Add Track HUD dialog on new sessions. Until you set a default synth , TTS-1 will be chosen if installed, or a MIDI only track if not. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeringAmps Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 41 minutes ago, John Vere said: still showing as the default instrument. InCBB it is now removed and just says Midi only. Yep that's what I'm seeing here. Screenshot is from Sonar, CbB read "midi only" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Jeeze we have 6 threads now on this topic! its 2017 all over again ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSistine Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 4 hours ago, John Vere said: Jeeze we have 6 threads now on this topic! its 2017 all over again ! Don't cry wolf! I fear there are reasons to feel like that! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 6 hours ago, John Vere said: Jeeze we have 6 threads now on this topic! Was it you that started the first one? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heath Row Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 No 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 I referring to the forum and what happens when we get anything news worthy. Multiple threads discussing the same topic. It all good. It’s either going to be one ten page thread or ten one page threads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 but having 10 threads means they can each divert into tangents without ruining the good thread... 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwal³ Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 1 hour ago, Glenn Stanton said: but having 10 threads means they can each divert into tangents without ruining the good thread... 😉 there's a good thread?! 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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