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Everything posted by gmp
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I just sent it
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Noel I sent the project in question
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I opened a CWP from 2010 since a client wanted me to work on it. In Sonar I couldn't open the synthrack and browser. Cakewalk support verified the bug, which if I had Sonar premium I could have fixed it by putting the Workspace as None. I found another solution, open CbB and save the file with the synthrack open. I'm glad this happened before 8/1/25
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I've used Cakewalk since 1992 with DOS. I will start using it on projects this week and hopefully there won't be any showstopper bugs. I've seen that in the past, I'm just a Murphy's law type guy. Personally I think it'll be fine
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It seems like when I got the activation notice, I didnt' have to do it right away. I doubt if any of this will be an issue for me, but I'm sure others are curious how long before it's not working. i wonder how one can find out the installation update cycle
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I installed Sonar Free and I have several CAL scripts that I have assigned to Shortcuts. I tested them and they work fine. Have you installed Sonar Free? If so try out your CAL scripts
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Activation ends on 8/1 but it's unclear how long CbB will work after 8/1 or if it'll work at all
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I agree. This needs to be addressed pronto. I turned in a bug report about the Colors not working at all. they're working on it. Check out my detailed post about the Themes and Colors today 7/13
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Thanks Noel this is very helpful. I printed it and will study it more. I've been using CbB, so I haven't paid much attention to the new Sonar until now. Is there a fairly concise view of the new features and improvements going from CbB to Sonar?
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The keyboard Shortcut problem is now fixed for me. I sent in a bug report, their excellent team, who responded within a day, had me try a few things and mentioned disabling any Macro Programs I had working in the background. I've used macro Express for decades and I needed to create an exception in my Macro for Control F3 and F4, so it wouldn't' be active with Sonar.Exe. I already had exceptions for Cakewalk.exe and Platinum
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Here are screenshots of the exact same song. I tried all the new Color Schemes and Mercury was the closest. Cakewalk in the past did a super job with the way the interface looked. With CbB and Platinum, I used a Logic Theme and did a lot of tweaking to get it the way I wanted it. I hope they'll give us some tools to tweak their Color Schemes, we can then trade them like we did in the past. There were about 30 or more user-edited Themes I could choose from years ago. CbB Sonar - Mercury Color Scheme
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It works perfectly. I long had wished CbB had this feature. Thanks
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That's correct, but they can't be changed or edited. I exported CbB colors and imported them into Sonar. There was no change. And the preferences/colors doesn't work at all. i turned in a bug report on this one. In fact, the Color Schemes can't be edited like we have in CbB and Platinum. Someone, I think he was from Cakewalk said it's new UI that presently can't be edited like our old Theme Editor. Possibly we can do that in the future, I hope. This is not for esthetic reasons, it's for my workflow, so I can quickly visually find things.
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V-Vocal will crash if there are any soft synths open. Not sure what processing stops are.
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At times, I may have 10 or so soft synths open and which to disconnect or temporarily disable them. I have to click each button, some take a while to turn off. Is there an easier way?
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I installed Sonar Free on 2 different computers and got the same results of this Bug. Go to Preferences / Customization / Colors. Select all, change all the colors to light blue. Show strip Colors is checked save changes for next session is checked. Of course at first I tried less drastic changes. I'm disappointed that there are no Themes and no Theme Editor. I did extensive work on my Theme, which makes my work-flow work so much better, being able to see things clearly,
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I was able to install by searching my Registry for all occurrences of D:\Cakewalk Content and changing to D to F (my F HD). I first created the folder - F:\Cakewalk Content here's my initial post: can't install Sonar on a 2nd computer, because it won't let me change the HD from D:\Cakewalk Content to F:\Cakewalk Content. I tried both advanced and Basic install and tried it without installing Cakewalk Product Center and with installing it. The window is greyed out. I need to install it on a 2nd computer for testing purposes, since I've found some bugs and have gotten no response from this thread
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I can't install. Are you trying to say that before I try to install I need to sign out of Bandlab and then install, then sign back into bandlab? Please explain
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Jonathan Sasor can you give me the registry key to delete, so I can do a clean install of Sonar. I do have CbB installed on my 2nd computer and had even platinum and 8.5
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I can't install Sonar on a 2nd computer, because it won't let me change the HD from D:\Cakewalk Content to F:\Cakewalk Content. I tried both advanced and Basic install and tried it without installing Cakewalk Product Center and with installing it. The window is greyed out. I need to install it on a 2nd computer for testing purposes, since I've found some bugs and have gotten no response from this thread
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I’ve been using the very latest version of cakewalk by bandlab and installed sonar free today and during installation , I pointed it to cakewalk by bandlab for the settings and yes, I’ve been using workspace for years every song I have the work spaces or intact?
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There's are maybe about 10 color schemes. Mercury color scheme is pretty good, i just want to tweak it some like i did when we had a theme editor. Can this be done
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I just found out Themes from previous CbB/SONAR versions are not compatible with the latest Sonar which has a vector based UI instead of bitmaps. Can we adjust the UI, so I can make it looks similar to the Theme I like? I'd assume I'd do this in Preferences / customization / colors. I'm using Mercury color scheme for now. If I view "All colors" and change all the light blues to darker blue, hit ok. Nothing changes that I can see. IN that window is "Presets". Do we have any Presets I can try out? I see you can import and export colors
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Keyboard shortcut bug? I just installed Sonar Free 2025.07 build 63 and imported my keyboard shortcuts that were created in CbB. Most of them work fine but when I hit Control-F3, it's assigned in keyboard shortcuts to go to Previous marker and Control-F4 to Next marker. Control-F3 instead opens Preferences Snap to Grid and Control-F4 starts playback and opens Preferences Snap to Grid . I hit unbind for both those shortcuts and then close and reopened preferences and hit bind to assign Control-F3 to Previous measure and Control-F4 to Next marker. It still doesn't work. Is this a bug? I went ahead and Zapped the Keyboard shortcuts and then set up Control-F3 + F4 again - same result