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Thanks - it does seem to only affect some users. I have switched off the quick start menu, it seems to be the root of these issues.

Thanks for checking - yes, I am on the latest build, but it started happening in the previous build. I did some testing with the quick start menu disabled and everything seems fine, but if I enable the quick start menu I see the described behaviour again. @siordanescu & Salvatore - are you clicking "browse" from the quick start menu and then opening a project? That is when I am seeing the issue.

Hi Noel, It happens in all projects, but only for the first project opened after launching Sonar. Exact steps: 1) Launch Sonar (quick start menu must be enabled in previous session), and from the quick start menu, choose browse. 2) Browse to any project and open it. 3) The quick start screen displays again, and needs to be dismissed before the project will continue opening. Opening projects after the first one works normally again. Thanks.

The file opening bug introduced in the previous version is still there. Browse for a file, and when opening it, the quick start screen displays instead of opening the file. The quick start needs to be closed before the file will start to load. The startup toast notifications are also displaying incorrectly. I have provided support with a video showing this and they have been able to replicate the behaviour.

Thanks for the response, but my post wasn't about the speed of loading a project. Usually there are toast notifications that pop up at each stage of the project loading, such as the plugins, the content, the tracks etc, and finally a pop-up saying the project has been opened, at which point I can press play and continue. The issue I was explaining is that the final pop-up immediately appears, and then no pop-up activity at all while the project is clearly still loading. In other words the final pop-up is appearing too early saying the project has been opened when it should be notifying of the various load stages. Hopefully this is clearer.

Hi, I updated to build 038 after noticing this issue in build 036, but it is still happening. When first opening Sonar and selecting a project from the quick start screen, I immediately get a toast notice that the project has been opened, and then no activity for several seconds while the project actually opens. None of the usual loading toast notifications are displayed. Opening anything after this works correctly, it is only the first project opened after launching the app. I have captured a screen recording of this but it is too large to attach here. I have uploaded it to this location: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Wu3gzX612_oApSsqqBGOBnoanfCTmWF/view?usp=sharing

Hi User905133, I also am seeing the same behaviour no matter which sort-by option is selected. To be clear, I am fine with the hovering action opening the sub-menu - what is catching me out is the menu being dismissed when I click on a manufacturer's name (or plugin type or whatever the selected view is). In CbB and older versions that action did not dismiss the menu, it opened the sub-menu.

Hi Bristol_Jonesy, Yes, that is what I am seeing - if in this example I click on the Cakewalk menu item in the middle, the menu is dismissed. Hovering does expand the menu, but clicking also used to expand the menu in the old versions. That is what my muscles are remembering!

Hi, Thanks for checking this - that screen shot looks like it is from the browser, though - the issue appears when you right-click in the FX bin and insert Audio FX, or insert soft synth from the main menu. The menus look like this: The browser behaves as expected - the behaviour in the above menus has changed since CbB, at least for me.

This is very strange, as these 2 files are from the same folder in the same sample library, from h2rogen if I recall correctly.

Hi David, Amberwolf, Thanks for taking the time to look at this. As I understand the browser preview function, even ordinary wav files can be continuously previewed as a loop without necessarily being "acidized" - in CbB, the browser would pretty much attempt to sync any file to the current project while previewing (with that setting enabled). Dropping the wav files into the project would still require groove clip looping to be applied, unless the file was already "acidized". Something seems to have changed in Sonar to make this previewing a bit more picky in terms of which files it will play and which files either don't preview, or preview for a time and then go silent. I will try and create a minimal project where this can be easily reproduced, hopefully that will help to pinpoint the issue. I appreciate the input!

Thanks, 57Gregy

Hi, No, this is from right-clicking in the FX bin and choosing insert effect. It also does this when inserting an instrument from the main menu (insert/Soft Synth). Apologies, I see this wasn't clear in my original post.

Hi, When browsing plugin menus, clicking on (e.g) a manufacturer's name in the menu used to open the next layer of the menu (that manufacturer's plugins in this example). I tested this in Cakewalk by Bandlab and I am sure it always used to work like this in older versions as well, but in the new Sonar, clicking here dismisses the menu - you have to hover the pointer and wait for the menu to open. This is messing with years of muscle memory - I keep clicking to open the next level of menus and end up accidentally dismissing the entire thing. If it is intentional, can we please have the old way as an option? It is certainly not a better way, you can just move your mouse away to dismiss the menu.

Hi David Apologies for the delay, haven't had much studio time recently. I am attaching 2 files that display this behaviour - they play at first but soon stop playing, only to restart when the main project playback is stopped and started again. Example loops.zip