msmcleod

No-one is forcing you into subscription. There are very few differences between the premium and free tiers of Sonar at the moment. All you need to do is sign in to activate (assuming you're running the latest Sonar) and you'll be able to save.

There's really no reason to uninstall unless you're desperate for HDD space. Most of the installation is common to both Sonar/CbB, so you'd not be freeing up much. Also, when CbB does fail to activate, it WILL still play back if you have a problem project - only save/export is disabled.

The minimum specs are determined from what a sensible PC set-up would be for the average user (based on what is on the market now), assuming zero tuning of their BIOS or Windows installation. One of the most common things we hear from noobs is that they're getting clicks & pops, when they've loaded up their project with 100+ tracks containing an overkill of plugins that they saw on their favourite you-tube channels and a bunch of CPU intensive VSTi's. Having a more generous minimum spec helps to mitigate issues from these users. Of course Sonar will run on far slower hardware, and as @Starship Krupa says, my main DAW is an old i7 3770. My workflow is pretty old school though. I only started using VST's around 10 years ago - prior to that, all my instruments and effects were hardware. My 2 x DS2416 cards may have given me hardware EQ & Compression on 48 tracks, but it only gave me 4 effects processors. As such, I learned to use them sparingly, which has continued with how I use VST's nowadays.

Presets for individual ProChannel modules wasn't implemented until after CbB was released (in the April 2020 release IIRC). In SONAR Platinum, you only have complete ProChannel strip presets.

@aleo- Can you send your .cwp file to @Jonathan Sasor - we'll take a look.

FWIW, PC-2A is included in CbB / Sonar, which is exactly the same as CA-2A except: It's a Pro-Channel only module There's no side chaining There's no Mac version

That WONT work. SONAR Platinum didn't install CA-2A - it was always a separate installer. If CA2A isn't appearing in the Cakewalk Command Center, then it's not available for you.

You should be able to activate it via the Cakewalk Command Center - you can download the latest version here: https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Command-Center - make sure you have this one, as older versions won't connect to the new servers.

The Articulation Map editor always shows the MIDI note number alongside the C0, C-1 etc because there's no standard for middle C. The MIDI note number is for middle C is always 60 however, so if you can, refer to the MIDI note numbers instead. Changing the base octave for pitches will not affect the actual notes stored in the articulation maps - just whether it shows "C3 [60]", or "C2 [60]" etc, so you can change that setting as you see fit.

The MackieControl.dll is common to both Sonar and CbB, and there have been very few changes to MackieControl.dll - certainly nothing that would explain what you're experiencing. Can you provide screen shots of your: Preferences->MIDI->Playback and Recording page Preferences->MIDI->Control Surfaces page Mackie Control dialog page (from the Utilities menu)

Other drag/drop plugin browser enhancements: Drag/Drop an effect to the sends cluster, and it'll create a bus with that effect on it and a create a send to that bus. If you hold CTRL while dropping, it'll quick group for all selected tracks. Handy for creating sends from multiple tracks to a new reverb bus. If ALT is down, it'll do the same but using a send to an Aux track instead.

You may find that Sonar X1 requires older VC++ redistributables, as the "rollup" redists only cover VS2015 - VS2022. Sonar X1 was released in 2011. You can find the older ones here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 Be aware though, that redists prior to 2015 are no longer officially supported in Windows 11. In saying that, Sonar X2 is working fine here on my Windows 11 machine (upgraded from Windows 10). I've got the redists for VS2005, VS2008, VS2010, VS2012, VS2013 and the VS2015-2022 installed. If you're going to install them, start at VS2005 and make your way forward, finally re-installing the latest VS2015-2022 redists.

Please provide a screen shot of your Keyboard Shortcut preferences page.

When you say it no longer works, what is actually happening? Is it not showing the preset menu at all, or is it that the preset list is empty? FWIW, I've checked here using the free tier and everything is working as expected.

From my conversations with Noel about this, unlike MacOS which forces you to use ARM64 plugins if you run as ARM64, and forces you to use x64 plugins if you're running in Rosetta, ARM64EC will allow you to run a mixture of ARM and x64 plugins. What I'm not clear about is whether ARM64EC will run only ARM64EC & x64 plugins, or ARM64, ARM64EC and x64 plugins. I suspect its the latter though. There will be a small performance hit when running x64 plugins on an ARM machine though, as it'll be emulating the Intel code.

@tdehan - I've sent you a PM.

We've found/fixed the issue. The fix will be available in the next update.

@tdehan - I can't seem to reproduce your issue here using the stock presets. Can you PM me the ProChannel preset you were trying to load?

FWIW - up until 2 months ago, I was on Windows 10 and besides the main title bar colour (it's white on Win 10, themed on Win 11) I didn't encounter any graphical issues. I'll be trying out 1394 FW at some point the next month or two, when I try to get my old Yamaha 01X mLAN install working on Win 11. I know at least one user on the 01X Facebook group has it working on Windows 11, so I don't think there's a general 1394 FW issue on Windows 11. I've not had any issues with audio drivers on Windows 11, so you may be ok. Best to see if you can reach out to fellow Apollo users before you consider upgrading though.

If you've been battling to get two tracks to fit together without fighting each other, this does the trick. I don't use it much myself (if EQ fails, I'd rather re-visit the arrangement or the sounds I'm using), but it certainly does the job if you're struggling, and can be a massive time-saver.

A very cheap keyboard stand.

You'll need to ask whoever produced the comparison chart - I wasn't involved in it.

hopefully some time this week, all going well.

They've been a bit naughty here... CC101 is indeed an RPN, but they're meant to be sent out in pairs (as per MIDI spec)... i.e. CC101 should be paired with a CC100 - which is what Sonar will do. I think using an articulation map may get around this.

@Richard Wikstrand - please contact support@cakewalk.com