Michael Crepps

Yes if piano roll is open and I am in piano roll view everything works ok. Sluggish compared to before. When you move cursor or press play or stop its a half sec delay. Was instant before patch. if you close piano roll view everything works great. Its when open piano roll view and then click on track view for instance but piano roll is still open on another monitor but not the current selected window. Thats when everything goes crazy. When you click play you cant stop it. U can click on other windows. click stop click anything but nothing works for about 10 secs to 14 seconds. (counting myself). I have very good computer. I have three 4k 50 inch monitors and windows on every screen. I have 5 running instances of amplitube 5 and 7 other effects running on various tracks I have 5 keyboard tracks and 1 superior drummer track so lots of midi stuff. Vocals and 6 different layered guitar tracks going with amplitube running different preset on each one. Never had any issues before. Until this patch. I keep piano roll open a lot cause im constantly going back and forth between windows. I at least discovered it was the piano roll window. For now Im closing the window each time i leave it but I dont want to have to continue doing that since I know it can function fine with it on before patch. I did click on the GPU acceleration button and turned it off and restarted but had no effect on sonar. Still acting the same. Also just for more info. If I forget to close piano roll window and click play in track view and let it play for like 20 seconds or more without clicking stop then it takes sometimes 4 or 5 min to get cakewalk to stop playing. most of the time Im clicking play to listen to a section and not whole song. And you can kinda get it to stop after about 10 to 14 secs. but if you play like anywhere close to half a min it wont stop for anything. I click everything and it plays endlessly past the whole song for mins until it stops. craziness

If it helps any it seems to not effect sonar at all to be in the piano roll view. Its only when I make another window the focus that piano rolls locks up sonar. Even after it locks up once I can get back into piano roll and its the window Im focused on it all works fine. Piano roll will not work opened in the background without locking up sonar. Never had this problem in past. Only after this update.

Well it was working. I started back on a song I was working on. Then after a couple mins it started locking up again. But it was only when the piano roll view was up. I keep it open a lot. I am constantly messing with keyboard or drum notes. It was unresponsive. When you click on anything it takes like 6 to 10 seconds for program to respond. Once I finally got it to stop playing I closed piano roll view and its working fine again now. But I need piano roll view up a lot. I just tried opening piano roll view and I clicked play. It takes 9 secs to get sonar to stop playing but it took 14 secs for program to close piano roll view when I clicked on X to close window. Something wrong with piano roll after new update. I have to keep it closed. I try to see if other windows are causing this problem. too. After I reinstalled sonar I thought it was working again but i just hadn't opened piano roll view again yet. It causes same problem no matter what midi track I try to open up in piano roll view.

I reinstalled all drivers for hardware. There were new drivers on 18th. I thought maybe since they updated them others had similar problems. I did find one person in a forum that was having same issue since new sonar update. I updated all drivers and it didnt effect the problem any. But anyway I wiped my sonar and reinstalled it and now it working fine. Dont know what that update did nut it wa sa mess. Now its working. so who knows.

I dont see why it would be a hardware issue since I have been using cakewalk for over 20 years. 1997 I think. 100s of updates.and now this. Was fine before this new update. Its totally sluggish and unresponsive. Its not just play and stop. I see that its pretty much got a 10 sec delay no matter what you click on. Hardware or not its the same hardware I have had now for over a year. Cannot use the program at all like this.

I updated Sonar yesterday. And now its totally unusable. When I click play it will not stop playing. Like 10 sec later it finally stops. Cannot use the program like this. Not sure if there is other problems. This issue is so bad I just had to get off. I hope this gets fixed immediately. Its unusable now and I usually am out here for hours in my studio some days. I paid for this thing. It needs to work better than this.