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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.

Thanks - that isn't the reference guide that opens from Sonar's Help/Documentation menu item - that menu item takes you to a website for legacy Cakewalk documentation.

Hi, I recall reading about project previews being one of the new features in Sonar (audio previews of in progress projects from the start screen), but I cannot find anything related to that anywhere. The documentation menu item in Sonar links to the old SONAR docs, which obviously won't have info on new features. Is this a new feature or was it part of a beautiful dream 🙃? Thanks.

Thanks, will try that after this session. I don't want to end up unable to sign back in and then not being able to save my work.

Hi, I have "Sign out from Bandlab" on my help menu so I think so.

Hi, I cannot download the latest update or refresh activation - in both cases I get "failed with error code (1,401)". Checking for updates brings up the toast notification with the Download Now button so it can see the server, it just refuses to download the update or reactivate. Any ideas why? Thanks.

Hi David, You assumed correctly - it is affecting existing projects that were running perfectly on the old machine. That is why I did not suspect a plugin, as they usually run with improved performance on faster hardware. It doesn't happen in all projects, which is why I mentioned that it happens often but not constantly. Thanks for the input - I am happy to have found the cause of the problem, now to find a solution.

HI Sock Monkey, Yes, I did - similar problems with Reaper, if not quite as pronounced.

Hi, I have had some graphical glitches and slowdown related problems for a few weeks already, and eventually tracked the problem down to the soft synth Cube by Lunacy Audio. If the synth is open, even minimized, the Cakewalk piano roll view, inspector and browser all become very glitchy and unresponsive. Closing the synth window brings performance back to a normal level. I didn't pick this up as I often have minimized synths at the bottom of the window, and have never come across this kind of issue before. I also did not have this issue with Cube on my older PC with a 3rd or 4th generation i7 CPU and internal graphics adapter. The problem seems to have been introduced either by the new CPU (i7 14700 with internal GPU) or by Windows 11. Is anyone else running one of the internal intel GPUs having similar issues with this synth? Thanks.

I eventually found the problem, in case anyone else has this issue. It seems that the synth Lunacy Cube does not play well with the internal GPU on an Intel Core i7 14700 & Cakewalk. The strange thing is the issue persists whether the plugin interface is open or minimized, so it doesn't appear to be an issue with drawing the GUI, as there is nothing to draw when the plugin is minimized. Closing the synth solves the issue. I have requested support from Lunacy Audio, hopefully they can provide a fix.

Hi, no such key in the registry, just the Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO driver.