pistolpete

I'm running the free version. I choose not to pay for this. Due to the risk of having vsts deleted or other digital mishaps to my projects, I've paused on Sonar's use for now. It's wait and see. I only use it for legacy projects anyway.

I never had issues with vsts or synths in CbB. But when I converted over to the new Sonar, it deleted about a dozen vsts, including TTS-1, GroovePlayer, Sonitus effects and a number of others. It took a lot of time and effort to recover them. The GroovePlayer never restored correctly. Although I don't directly use it, somehow it's tied to the metronome, which is now permanently broken. There are now updates and changes to vsts for "core vsts" which are only available if you pay for a subscription. I am very concerned this might break the stable vsts that I have been using for a long time. This seems to me like a risk when any updates are applied now. There are a lot of bugs being reported from others after the switch over. Add to that, the new Sonar software isn't really supported on Windows10, adding driver issues and things breaking for that update too, for those who update OS. It's a lot of instability right now. Hopefully they get things fixed.

I see this too. I didn't think much of it until you mentioned it. I just have a normal secondary monitor. None of my previous Cakewalk versions did this. I just discovered another unexpected behavior. When I open a virtual controller (keyboard), it will trigger all soft synths in my project instead of the one that's track highlighted. If I mute everything but the synth I want or solo the track, it only plays one synth as expected. It might be useful I guess. But, none of the previous Cakewalk versions did this.

Thanks for the information. I appreciate the help, thank you. I had a valid install of this but it was on an older version of Sonar. I was able to copy the files over without this. But it may be handy in the future when they update Sonar again and break things again. 😄 I looked a doing the custom install but it doesn't have a GroovePlayer option. That one is broken too. I'm still working on it. The metronome doesn't do anything.

I solved the TTS-1 issue. I had dust off an old laptop with Sonar installed, search around for all of the TTS-1, compared everything and restored the missing modules. The old Sonar seems so much cleaner and faster than the recent version. I didn't have to wait a minute for an annoying nag screen either. 😉 Too bad it's missing a few features the new one has. Now I am focusing on GroovePlayer. Although, I don't really use it, the error messages are messy.

The metronome doesn't work at all. If I set it to MIDI, nothing happens, if I set it to tone, it hangs. Yes, this moved forward from a licensed version. I could try a custom installation, but the de-install may have corrupted it.

Actually it was deleted by the Bandlab de-install. It worked perfectly before that. Glen, do you have any helpful insights as to how I get it back? I have thousands of hours of time spent on projects that have now been rendered useless.

After doing some investigation, I've discovered that the de-install of BandLab corrupted a number of my vst plugins on the new Sonar, especially the DX plug ins. All of which, worked perfectly before the de-install. For example, TTS-1 synth is broken. It's in the scan directory. It's listed in the registry as being there and nowhere else. There is a GroovePlayer plugin found in the plugin manager in Cakewalk, which is in the same path as TTS-1. When opening the plugin manage, it find GroovePlayer but not TTS-1. It also warns both are unavailable when opening a project that uses TTS-1. I haven't knowingly used GroovePlayer in any project. If anyone has any helpful insights to solve this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I did a scan and found those still in other directories. I am wondering if somehow the licenses got destroyed when I uninstalled.

Yes, I've been using this software in various incarnations for decades. It looks like when I uninstalled the old BandLab software, it deleted those. After rebooting, the software returned but TTS-1 and TH3 are now gone. What a mess. 😒

I've uninstalled the old Bandlab and updated the new to current. Sonar opened but it lost TTS-1 and the amp sims. I closed it and nothing starts. I don't get any errors. It just doesn't start.

It probably picks up radio stations from around the world..... ?

"A License to Criticize," I love the title. Catchy tune. Oh yeah, it's definitey overcompressed , but that's not uncommon. No big deal. The doo doo da's should go.

A bit different and interesting. Nice tones and effects, not overdone. Good job. ?

Could be worse, could have been Worchestershire sauce....... ?