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I do a lot of composing and editing with MIDI tracks and Instrument tracks and often you have a situation where two tracks have notes of the same or nearly the same color. This presents some confusion when working in the Clips Pane, but much more confusion when you're working with both tracks in PRV. It's easy to solve the problem in Track View using Track Inspector and changing the Note or foreground color in the clips in one of the tracks. Unfortunately, the note color in PRV remains the same. It would be very helpful if a track's note color in the Clips Pane could be synced with track's note color in PRV.

Plays, Welcome aboard. I'm a little surprised that no one from the staff has responded to your post (19 hours!). I doubt if your problem with the Quick Start panel is serious enough to require a reinstallation, hopefully correcting it will be fairly simple, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you with this aspect of Sonar. Try contacting support@cakewalk.com or going to Support at the Cakewalk website. Hope you have success in solving your problem soon.

Noel, I've encountered problems with corruption of both the Time Ruler and automation envelopes that occur whenever the Horizontal Scroll thumb is moved. I believe these problems started occurring with build 084, but they remained after I installed build 109--see attached screenshot of a simple test project. Opening the Tack Inspector or moving the horizontal zoom clears everything up, but corruption recurs as soon as you touch the Horizontal Scroll again. I've sent all the documentation (screenshots, project, files, video, dmp files) I can to the folks at Cakewalk Support, haven't heard back. All the details can be found under Case # 2027551. BTW--heard some really nice jazz guitar playing on your blog.

Wookiee, yes and I believe my e-mails with these attachments made it through including copies to Jonathan Sasor. These problems center around Sonar's failure to re-draw things in the Clips Pane correctly after the horizontal scroll thumb has been moved. Build 097 corrected the problem of the Now Time line being messed up, but didn't correct the corruption in the automation envelopes. We are finishing a final mix for an album and rely heavily on drawing and adjusting the volume and pan envelopes in our tracks. The bugs you see in my screenshot interfere with our progress. I don't think it's related to our hardware; since April we've been using a state-of-the-art PC running Win. 11 and optimized for running Sonar.

As you can see in the attached screenshot, several of the problems that occurred in the Clips Pane with v. 2025.07 build 084 remain in build 097. Track 1 demonstrates the corruption that occurs in automation envelopes whenever you move the horizontal scroller—broken or irregular jump lines, irregular straight lines and curved envelopes. This can be cleared up by opening Track Inspector or by moving the vertical scroll thumb. The corruption in the envelope in Track 2 is an old problem that goes back, I believe, as far as v. 2024.12. It was fixed for version 2025.06, but has returned with build 097. It occurs consistently when a clip with an envelope is moved to the left and the 2nd node from the last is deleted. I've reported this problem several times both on this forum and to Support. There was no signal passing through Sonar when this screenshot was taken so there should be no green bars in either the Master or Metronome bus, yet they are there, frozen (?). I’ve sent several problem descriptions along with screenshots and project files to Cakewalk Support and have also tried to send videos and dmp files (build 097 has crashed on me twice) as requested. Some of these files may have been too large and I don’t have an account with Drop Box. I have not heard back from anyone in Cakewalk Support for over a week. Can we please get these problems corrected by the next Sonar update?

Mark, thanks for responding. I sent a project file to Lois at Support earlier today along with a new screenshot. Will send copy to Jonathan. BTW, the second time I initiated Sonar after my upgrade to build 084 it crashed (my first crash with Sonar). I have the mini-dump file, but will need to use something like Drop Box and I don't have an account with them yet.

I downloaded and installed the new 084 build today, but as soon as I initiated Sonar and selected a project several problems appeared in Track View: corrupted volume envelopes in some clips, corrupted jump line after the last node in the tracks instead of a smooth row of dots. black bar at top of clip is messed up, in the time or measure line at the top of the Clips Pane, both the numbers and tick lines are corrupted. See the attached screenshots. Maybe something went wrong with the download; please advise.

I've been using the MIDI Activity Monitor on the taskbar for years with both CbB and with Sonar running with Windows 10 and now Windows 11 and I 've never seen it fail. Not sure what the problem could be; hopefully one of the bakers will respond soon.

Often when working with MIDI and Instruments tracks in Track View and Piano Roll View you end up with two or more tracks whose notes have the same or very similar color. You can easily change the color of the notes (foreground color) in one of the tracks using Track Inspector, but the color will remain unchanged in PRV. If a way could be found to sync the color selected in the Track Inspector with the color of notes in PRV it would make editing, drawing, and arranging notes in PRV much easier.

Local Help/Off-Line Help should always be available as an integral part of Sonar just as it was in CbB and SONAR. For many of us, keeping our DAW or studio computer constantly online causes problems. Additionally, I don't appreciate and don't need the constant reminders, toast messages, that my computer is off-line. BandLab/Cakewalk has not provided a way to turn these off and these unnecessary reminders are a nuisance and a drag on workflow. Please correct this in the next version.

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Thanks for responding guys. I had accidentally unchecked Big Time when I created the workspace you see in the screenshot and I'm now using that workspace most of the time. Problem solved.