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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

Hi mgustavo, Thanks, this is also a new PC (less than 6 months old) and as far as I can tell the same problem doesn't happen in Cakewalk by Bandlab.

Hi David, No signal on the preview bus, but the browser play button stayed illuminated. Had to click it on and off a few times to get playback to start again. I will upload a couple of the files a bit later, I appreciate the offer to check, thanks.

Hi, No, the browser play button stays on, just the audio stops sounding. It could be something about the specific audio files, though they are from a commercial library.

Hi Will, David, The problem is intermittent - I have made a short video where you can hear the sample play on its own, then it plays along with the track, and then stops playing after switching to another sample and back. I demonstrate it twice in the video. Unfortunately I can't get the video file size small enough to attach here, but I have uploaded a copy to Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nk883xKjPVBtJdI6grYg3Aj_In6QAtVg/view?usp=sharing

Hi, Selecting a sample in the media browser, and playing it (not the project) works, but as soon as I play the project the sample is often silenced. I tested it in the same project in the old Cakewalk by Bandlab and it seems to always work, but in the new Sonar it seems to work very sporadically - one sample will play, the next sample won't play and then the first sample won't play. My settings were imported from Cakewalk, so they should all be the same. Any ideas?

Thanks Bristol_Jonesy, I sees you need to create the preview when exporting. Not sure why the new Sonar would link to the old Sonar's help docs when new help docs exist.