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No you are inaffect requiring them to do tests. I have a good idea why, you don't ask the creators of the plugins but my paws are tied.

You infer that it is the teams/Cakewalk responsibility to ensure someone else's product works with theirs. Why? There is nothing they can do if they don't, can they? They obviously make best efforts to ensure that their software is compliant with the standards of ASIO, current Direct X, VST 2/3, the current MIDI requirements, the currently supported OS's, the majority of Graphics standards. What I personally think you should be doing is asking the plugin creators what plugins work on the ARM architecture, that is the real first question to ask. Then, and only then, if they say they are ARM compatible, but fail in you chosen host product, do you ask that products creator to resolve the issue. You are inaffect asking Cakewalk to ensure that their product runs on all the permutations of potential PC hardware combinations, plus test all third party plugins. When we know full well that Cakewalk, applies the latest SDK libraries to their products, but frequently third party creators don't test their products on all other potential hosts. I know this for a fact because when I have approached a number of third party plugin producers with errors. Their response is "Oh we don't test on xwz hosts." The most interesting thing with those plugins is, the Cakewalk team have identified the issue in the plugins creators code, and supplied them with the fix, whilst building a workaround into Cakewalk's code just incase they don't fix it.

From reading that, it very much appears the responsibility for functionality of VST Plugins, on an ARM CPU lies with the plugin creaters not the DAW creators. Just as the DAW working on an ARM CPU is the DAW creators responsibility. Which is totally unsurprising, when VST plugins were first introduced, the DAW creators had modify their code to use VST plugins.

@Leander, Cakewalk uses the first Audio device that Windows initialises. It appears Windows does this in alphabetically, which is irritating. Don't blame Cakewalk it just uses what Windows gives it. Unless you have a really good reason, and does have to really good one, ASIO4all should not be installed on a DAW.

If you are using a Workspace other than None, you must save that Workspace after you rearrange the control bar. It is a "feature" of Workspaces that they hold the control bar layout.

Are you subscribed or free? The Control bar is dictated by the Workspace, unfortunately the number of Workspaces in the free tier are restricted to one, which I believe you can't change or save.

@Jan have you considered it could be the FX in the FX bin in conjuction with the Pro Channel. Have you tried it with the FX bin disabled and the PC enabled.

@SVSX nag screens are not uncommon on free software, nearly all the free software I have ever tried, that has paid versions, has had a nag screen. Some are more persistent than others.

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.

If, @John Vere , if you did not use it for a certain period S-Plat and it cousins would phone home. Truth, most software that has a software manager, Arturia, Toontrack, Cherry Audio, The Native Instruments collective, phone home, reasonably regularly. Some without a manger like, Moog, Gforce also do, how do you think you get those, " There is an Update, or new version" alerts that popup, withou getting an email? As for keeping count, which I don't, at the last count, Bandlab has over 100,000,000 registered users. Now I am not naive in thinking they are 1. All active, 2. All Cakewalk Sonar or Next users, but I suspect there are more than 10,000 happy Cakewalk users. Personally I have been a Cakewalk user since 1992, when it could not record Audio and was just a MIDI sequencer. It took over from my Amiga, which used Dr. T's and Bars and Pipes to sequence MIDI, that I recoded on to my Tascam. I have been using their products for the last 33 years. Like many I got bitten by Gibson in the lifetime update "deal". It is apparent though that, unlike some, I have read and groked the press releases and announcements, since the Gibson debacle. (Groked - it means to fully understand something or someone. Robert A. Heinlein introduced the word in his Book Stranger in a Stange land. It is a Martian expression where they literally eat their dead so they could fully understand them.)

You can't even have the common decency to spell my name right and then just to show your total ignorance you miss quote me. But we all know how you like to misslead providing misinformation, or just stir the brown sticky stuff because you have nothing better to do. Your thread got shut down because of these facts. I did not say it would deactivate. As with CbB every 30 days activation has to be refreshed. If you are using it on a near daily basis this refreshment is transparent and happens automatically. If by chance you don't use it for more than 30 days then you will need to manually reactivate, from the help menu. This is done to give Bandlab an idea of how many users are using the Product. Historically even S-Plat used to phone home regularly and would require reactivation if unused for 30 days. With regard to Bandlab changing something in the software, it is their product, they can do what they like, especially when it is being given away for free. This is another example of you stirring the brown sticky stuff with your misinformation. I don't know whether you have noticed but 99.9% producers change their product on a regular basis without discussing it with you. Think about that. One final thought ***********,, no software is owned. You purchase a End User Licence Agreement. EULA, perhaps you should read it, it grants you the right to use the software for as long as the owners say you can. Yes for as long they deem you can, it actually says they can revoke your right at any time.