Noel Borthwick

There is nothing “fishy” about having a promo screen in free software. Its extremely common for all companies which offer a free version to have some sort of adware in it. In this case the popup is for our own products. I think if anything Cakewalk is extremely lenient about what is being offered in the free version compared to the competition.

Performance differences can be very system or project specific. If you are seeing a demonstrable difference, try and pare down your project and find out which elements cause the difference. Then you can send a project to analyze and I can look into it more closely.

Product center has a different version number from Sonar so thats normal.

Sonar uses less CPU than CbB

@Jan Can you share a simple project that exhibits this issue?

This was a back end issue. Its fixed in today’s update of product center.

Awesome thanks for checking it.

@Steve Moddelmog Please try the latest version of Product Center that just dropped. There are fixes that address problems that were preventing it from correctly identifying Sonar premium users. Let me know if this addresses your issue.

Sonar has been updated to 31.07.0.084. Please read the release notes and update as soon as possible since this update contains fixes and optimizations for some important user reported issues. Please note that Cakewalk Product Center has also been updated. CPC is a forced update due to breaking back-end changes that were preventing it from properly installing add-ons for Sonar Premium users. It also correctly tracks previously installed addons for some additional installers.

Pm me your user ID and we can look at your account. Ideally you should contact support with account questions.

Send a dump file and we can see what's crashing

Yeah, there are subtle bugs that can go unnoticed for years, decades even. I've fixed bugs that have been there since 2005 or earlier. And then some user comes along and sees the bug immediately due to something very specific in their workflow and says - this app has not been tested, <insert expletive here> 🙂 I actually just fixed one like that - a crash with no audio devices present that was introduced in 2013. Anyway, thanks for reporting this so clearly. It was a pretty important one to fix.

No worries I was just concerned that there was an issue with their activation.

We are planning for a degree of customization and considering json file based approaches too.

Hi @Jan I investigated this problem and was able to reproduce it with Sylenth1. It is indeed a bug and exactly as you suspected that the tempo was being used as an integer. In October last year I heavily optimized time reporting for VST plugins to reduce CPU use and we now cache tempo to avoid expensive calculations. However, I had a typo in my code that was returning an integer instead of the fractional tempo. This issue was not caught since most people tend to use integer tempos. The bug is now fixed and will be in the next update that we release soon. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'll send you a build that you can verify. PS: I PM'ed you a link to a build with a fix. Please report back.

It will expire independent of being signed in or offline for that matter. Sign in doesnt have anything to do with activation other than identifying the user to the server.

I think you are getting confused with their UI. As I mentioned its auto activated inside Sonar and Next. The UI of the plugin is whatever general UI Overloud has for an external license. The key here is that you should be able to stream audio and use the plugin with no limitations. If you try running that plugin in another DAW or even CbB you will get this dialog and can only use it as a demo.

This has been addressed for the next update.

The Internet connection message has been fixed for the next update. It was unintentional.

There is no auth code required. TH-U will auto activate inside Sonar and Next. You cannot use it in cbb or another DAW if that's what you are trying to do.

Its most likely that the save is so fast that you dont see the progress display. A second save is likely faster due to caching.

Not a bug. Its intentional that clicking the title bar dismisses quick start. Most users try and interact with the menu or close the app when the quick start is open so we facilitate this by dismissing it.

New prochannel modules are being considered but we don't have anything to announce just yet.

There is no good reason to uninstall unless you desperately need the space. If you uninstall fully you might lose some plugins no longer distributed is the one thing you might consider. Otherwise if you are never going to need to check something there you can uninstall.

Cheers for getting Premium, you wont be disappointed esp with whats coming later. Regarding the perf meters, they don’t measure UI load by default but rather audio processing load unless you change the metering options to show global system load. Some spikyness there is not abnormal, since its impossible to perfectly balance load on your CPU in a real world project since you may have varying processing or plugin loads on tracks and buses. Turning on Plugin load balancing will help smooth the load if you have many plugins on each track and arent running at super low latency. If you have a recipe for the language change issue, please send me a PM.