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@Igor can't say I am experiencing any of the issues you raise, I can only suggest you report them with sample projects, don't include the audio, to Cakewalk support.

@Bass Guitar your CPU is your issue, 2 cores/4 threads 2.9 GHz is way under spec. The absolute minimum spec is 4 cores/ running at 3+ GHz, around two to three years ago it was actually recommended to get proper performance you need 8 core 16 threads, it is what the code is written for. As noted the start screen opening is its default mode, you can disable the start screen, both in Next & Sonar, in Preferences. As for it being a bug, it is just the way Windows file association works. Windows knows that if you double click on a file with the file extention WRK or CWP it should launch Cakewalk Sonar. It doesn't know to tell Sonar to not launch anything.

Technically Cakewalk Sonar and S-Plat are now very different programs. S-Plat uses PNG's and BMP's to generate the GUI Cakewalk Sonar does not, it uses vector graphics. Cakewalk Sonar also has a much updated Audio engine. On my two year old i9 14900K tower computer, I can not say I have experienced any GUI glitches, but then I am running a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 8gig graphics card. Having said that, Cakewalk Sonar runs fine on my old i7 4790K CPU from 2014 PC, which only has a 2Gig graphics card. Can I ask what CPU are you using, how much RAM, does your machine have, do you only have the one disk drive, what graphics chips does your laptop have installed?

Nice balance between the ambient sounds and the music.

Mix sounds quite nice here, they are nice chairs.

Mix basically sounds well balanced, my only thought the bass might be a little to forward, just my two Triganic Pu

Not so much 24/7 more 25/8 Good to hear you found some time to make some music. Mix works here.

You write sweet fluffy stuff, can't say I noticed. Not so much the drums mixed low, for me the vocal is a little to forward, other than that it works well, that my two Triganic Pu.

Edit as requested

Not a bug, if you repeatedly open Sonar from a project in Windows browser, or other method, I recommend you disable the Quick Start from starting period. Quick start can always be opened from the file menu.

You are not alone I just don't know where the inspiration for these titles arrives from. Thanks Nigel, very minimalist only a four piece/instrument band.

99% of DAW's record the audio raw, i.e. unprocessed no affects added. FX get added post record, however if you enable input monitoring you can hear the effects in the FX bin or Pro Channel without printing them. Then you can tweak prior to the final mix down.

Another stunningly unimaginative title I didn't think about at all, not for even a nano second Thirteen Noise making toys GForce OB-X Cherry Audio Octave Cat Toontrack EZBass Fretless Clean DI Superior Drummer 3 Legacy of Rock Amber Dry EZKeys 2 (Muted) no sound just some Chord ideas Effecting things Boz Digitals David Bendeth +10dB compressor Overloud's Breverb All other FX are Stock Sonar or S-Plat tools

Synth stack is a stupidly low price!

Staff view works fine here use it all the time. As noted by @Bass Guitar you may have done damage uninstalling CbB. The foot print of the actual program is so small it really doesn't donany harm tomleave it behind. Did you, @anotherRobert2025, do a custom uninstall if not you probably broke the Cakewalk directory tree.