Noel Borthwick

This has been addressed for the next release.

If its already running Cbb then its a very good chance it will work as well or better. You can easily verify for yourself by downloading Sonar and running the Free tier with your largest project.

No without activation the program cannot save or export.

This is most likely system related where Windows is delaying access to something. If you can reproduce it capture a dump file of Sonar in that state from task manager using "create memory dump" and send a link. That will pinpoint whats causing the delay/hang.

Please keep this thread specific to issues related to this release. As others have explained generated files are not deleted by design because they can be reused or shared by other elements or even used as part of undoing an operation. Its normal operation of the program. Use Clean audio folder periodically.

If you have feature requests post it in the appropriate feature requests section. Obviously feature requests for the free version aren't prioritized

Sounds good. Note that the current upgrade promo is the lowest its ever been so it may not be around when you do upgrade

Its working exactly that way here. None of us can reproduce any issue. Recycle off means auto pinning so any new plugin windows will be pinned. This is exactly how it has worked before. No changes to this area. I suspect you are misunderstanding the feature or its project specific. Post a video.

It will run a lot better! Sonar has massive optimizations compared to CbB especially when running at lower latencies. I tested workloads that would completely glitch out in Cbb but played clean in Sonar.

It works perfectly here. How are you doing it. You have to CTRL-double click to open a plugin if you want it pinned. After that opening other plugin windows will leave that window open.

Read this: http://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=CakewalkSonar&language=3&help=Mixing.07.html

If you get there membership version of Sonar, it includes THU which is backwards compatible with th3. Any projects containing th3 will be automatically migrated to thu

The fix is to contact izotope to fix their dpi bugs

No difference between membership tiers. The same frequency applies.

Hi Rob, this implies to me that your windows install is somehow compromised. What driver mode are you using in Sonar? The kernel streaming components are typically loaded when the audio device is loaded in WDM mode (and perhaps WASAPI) but I dont believe its used in ASIO mode. I’ve not seen this component crash ever.

This is expected behavior and is how it works from the prior version. The browser now auto focuses the currently selected tab and minimizes the other docked views. This is to make better use of the limited real estate available in the vertical docked section. You can now double click the header of the synth rack to restore it.

All cakewalk projects are backwards compatible down to versions of our software from 2003. Of course if you are utilizing newer features in the software those parts of the project wont be visible but the basics should still load. Re CbB its moot since there will be only a single version of Sonar maintained going forward.

Its not a new piece of software but compared to Cbb there are vast areas of the code that have been optimized and reworked to be more modern. Cakewalk Next on the other hand was built from the ground up over the last 7 years.

It has vastly improved multi-core support and optimizations. Many users have reported vastly improved performance with Sonar compared to Cbb when running large workloads. Here are some notes about multi-core low latency improvements and Plugin load balancing improvements. You are mistaken about newer runtimes making things worse. We use lots of tools and they are being frequently updated with bug fixes. We stay on top of it when we can to support current versions of the OS and also resolve known issues.

We can add the ability to view set lists in a future update.

Are you signed in to BandLab? BandLab sounds require an account to work. Also if you don't have a membership you currently can only preview sounds and not use then in your project.

Can you share a project that exhibits this?

This is initially a soft launch. More formal launch will follow with website updates etc.

ARM64 support is now available in Sonar 2025.06. If you have an ARM PC Sonar will automatically install an ARM optimized version rather than an X64 version. Read more about it here.

As mentioned it is sign in that requires the Internet connection. For normal use whether online or offline do not sign out, since that unlinks the machine from your license and you will have to sign in again to claim it. Only do that when you wish to use a different use account or intentionally want to remove your license from that machine. Certain alert notifications are forced, such as being signed out. Again, don't do that