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Missing a few things/ versions/releases, SONAR 8.5, SONAR X1.5

The oversampling of third party plugins still works, it is a function of the plugin not Sonar. The oversampling built into Sonar, doesn't work in the free tier version of Sonar.

@Phil T I suggest you post this in the feature request forum. It would be useful for it to work as you suggest.

@Ricky_Wayne_Hunt what ate your Windows audio settings, they will dictate your sample rate wnd bit depth. Change them to what you want the default to be. Control Panel > Audio or Settings > Audio.

I have been advised steps are being taken at a server level to deal with the source of the problem.

I started yesterday at 08:15 HRS BST, before my breakfast, at that time I made a request for more keywords to be added, which is tricky as choose the wrong ones and the wrong posts get flagged. I then continued, with a few breaks, until I retired to my bunk at 00:45 hrs BST. I then resumed again at 08:25 hrs BST this morning, again before breakfast, until I went for my heart exercise. On returning I resumed. When will it stop when the spam bots get moved to another server to attack.

@pedant or pedwal or wally wally whatever you are calling yourself this nano second. The spam is being dealt with. I would point out I am not the only moderator. There are supposedly moderators on every continent on planet earth, possibly some of the minor islands too. So if you are going to call on me why not call on them all?

@Leander the Cakewalk Sonar Professional you refer to was a product by Gibson. There is no financial connection between the new Cakewalk and the Gibson products. Bandlab Technologies purchased the IP to the code not the products or its legacy. They have however very kindly maintained access to the old severs. In answer to your question regarding your key, the simple answer is no, the complete answer is no. As with previous iterations of Cakewalk products installing the New Cakewalk Sonar installs in the Cakewalk directory tree, with the core code in its own directory. Provided you follow the installation instructions you will lose nothing. You say you don't wish to install to the C drive do you the program? If you already have version of Cakewalk ??? Install when you open the new version it will ask if you wish to migrate your settings, i.e. audio, file locations etc. I suggest you use a search engine to search these forums for the rest of your questions, which have all been extensively answered many time recently.

Provided you have installed each variations core in its default location, then the new Sonar will install in a parallel directory in the Cakewalk tree. When it first starts it will ask you if you wish to migrate your settings i.e. project directory, audio settings, etc to the new Sonar. If you agree it will then migrate your custom settings, scan you plugins both VST & VST3. If you use custom plugin list you may need to copy those to the appropriate directory

That is the Workspace I use all the time, all functions are available.

@linkbekka & @Helios.G My error it is not being discontinued something I read elsewhere not on these forums, just shows you shouldn't trust the Internet.

When SONAR was introduced in 2000 there was no theme editor, likewise for 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 & 8.5. Then the X series arrived, X1, X1.5, X2, didn't either, I don't believe X3 did. If the furry brain remembers correctly they did have a light and dark colour schemes. It was only with the last iteration of the SONAR family, Platinum, Professional & Studio did we see the theme editor arrive.

Thank you.

@Dao Allegro try opening in safe mode and reject all plugins, see if it loads that way. If it does it implies a broken core plugin. I suggest if that is the case, complete uninstall, registry clean. Cold boot of your machine and reinstall. Do you have any anitvirus or malware running?

Are you opening it by clicking on a project? If so try opening it in safe mode. Hold down shift the click on the project. Have you tried opening it by just using the shortcut without a project.