Jonathan Sasor

If you run the Cakewalk download tool (not BandLab Assistant) it will download the full installer version for a fresh system

All of the old auth systems for SONAR should still be valid. Just make sure you grab the updated version of command center for legacy content

We log anything that comes up that we're able to reproduce and a number of things we can't. Mark was simply mentioning it in the other post as a courtesy.

Note that setting the Exception Handling Severity to 7 will catch plugin exceptions even if they're benign in nature. This defaults to a value of 1, and generally you would only need to set it to 7 if you're trying to troubleshoot something. Otherwise it will cause dumps to be triggered for things that might not necessarily cause problems in the app.

I don't think I could have put it any better.

Please note that the Early Access has now been updated to 29.09.0.062 which addresses some of the issues reported. Thanks!

You're seeing the driver bit depth there. The Record Bit Depth you can set on the Audio Data tab under the File heading.

The apps have a shared intermediary format. It can't do everything as there isn't 1:1 feature parity between Sonar and Next, but it does handle quite a few things, much more than uploading to bandlab.

SONAR Platinum launched with a "Membership" program where you could either pay monthly (where 12 months of membership would get you a perpetual license up to that 12 month point), or you could pay for that 12 months up front which was essentially just as you would with buying an upgrade from X2 to X3.

Respectfully, I don't think we need this here either. People have expressed their thoughts on prices from the moment the new version was announced. We've been around the block a time or two before, so we're pretty familiar with how people feel. We can't comment publicly on price points right now, but we have one in mind that I think most people here will find more than fair, as Noel has mentioned elsewhere. Details will be forthcoming when things are finalized, and nothing is going to change overnight. We just ask that people have a little patience while we do what we need to do on our end. Thanks!

You have it turned on here

SONAR went from SONAR 1-8 to SONAR X1-3 to SONAR Platinum, all being new versions of the application with new features. This is no different in that regard. There's a lot of additional work that is currently going into Sonar that is not currently in Cakewalk by BandLab which absolutely constitutes it as a new version of the app.

The installer should allow for install there. If you're seeing an error can you provide a screenshot?

Not new to this EA, but we'll log it internally in any case. It seems to be related to having Fit to Quarters turned on.

This appears to be an issue with the legacy site on the back end. We're looking into it. Thanks!

Locking this thread. Original question was asked and answered. The other commentary is not necessary.

We no longer distribute the older demo projects for Cakewalk by BandLab. There's the current demos available for download through either the online installer or the app itself, or if you're just looking for additional material to learn how to mix, there are places online you can find multitracks available for learning purposes. Here's one example.

What do you see when you hit refresh activation?

There are no legitimate versions of SONAR Platinum/Content for sale at this point. Not unless you find a sealed box with a redemption code.

@fret walker Can you grab a screenshot of the devices tab there when the Realtek is disabled and the PreSonus is not selectable?

It's conceivable that your audio configuration file is corrupt and not accepting a change, you can try manually deleting it by going to %appdata%\cakewalk\cakewalk core and deleting AUD.ini, then launch the application and try setting the driver. The Devices tab in the Preferences is showing you which devices are available to Windows, so as long as you've deselected everything under inputs and outputs, you should be able to select a different driver.

The Realtek ASIO drivers aren't really going to buy you much of anything, so you could uninstall that, but you shouldn't even need to hit apply once you've deselected the boxes. Again, bear in mind that both inputs and outputs need to be deselected before you can choose the other device.

100% the new version will work with all your old projects.

Okay, it should be working now, go ahead and give it another try.

Not necessarily re-writing the whole thing, as the SONAR Mac prototype from ~2016 proved, but there still would have needed to be a significant amount of work involved in order to have true parity between OS versions. Next is being built from the ground up as a cross platform app.