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Hi David, Thank you for the kind response. I'll admit I wrote the O.P in a bit of a frustrated state after a few crashes, it is true. Normally I like to be more constructive, and there are still many great things about Sonar. In some ways I regret the O.P now! Such are the effects of a deadline, lack of sleep, and software crashing just when you need to deliver cues. You're probably right in that many of these bugs are in fact old (except the trouble I'm having with view/zoom settings, but I've reported that.) Thanks again for your post.

I'm a long time user of Cakewalk, having been with the program since Home Studio 9. I generally found the old free Cakewalk by BandLab very stable. It hardly ever crashed, and everything worked as I'd hope. And whilst it's true that saying something generally "has a lot of bugs" isn't so helpful in ironing them out, there are honestly so many hiccups and bizarre behaviours going on since I switched to the new Sonar (and I'm doing the paid option) that I don't know where to begin. Crashes, things copying and pasting in strange ways, projects having random changes when I open them again (the last two to happen were sudden lost / clearly broken automation upon re-opening a project - something I am certain I didn't do - and even more strangely, suddenly all tracks being routed to a new soundless output - I had NOT done that either!) - and generally crashes where the program simply has to close.

Thank you for sharing. The thing is, I never had to think about any of this stuff until the last two updates. For many years I'd resize tracks, zoom in and out, and whenever loading a project it'd be wherever I'd last left those view settings. Suddenly, now, *whenever* I open a project for the first time, it is zoomed entirely out. I then have to re-do it all, every time. Nothing has changed at all in my workflow - this only started with the new updates.

Hello, I have been having a problem since the last two updates, which is that projects never remember my zoom settings. I have never had this problem with any version of Cakewalk or Sonar before (have been using Cakewalk since the days of Home Studio 9). Usually, when I'd open an old project, tracks would be sized as I'd last left them in all previous versions of Cakewalk and Cakewalk by Bandlab, and zoom settings would be the same as where I last left them. Now it is always zoomed out, which is very time consuming to deal with upon opening a project every time...