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One of my favourite synth plugins Omnisphere is a VST2 . . . Omnisphere 2 which is VST3 costs $500 . . . that's a big reason for me.

This is something that has disrupted my work flow in Cakewalk for many many years, to the point where I had to create a keyboard shortcut to escape this. (I think I recall other threads suggesting we need a way to turn this off, but they never got much traction) THE ISSUE: You click on the time ruler, perhaps you want to go to a certain point and playback from there . . . or, it's handy to go to the time ruler and drag the mouse to zoom the project out horizontally . . . maybe you want to drag a section and loop playback to work on a certain section. Afterall, the time ruler is less than 1/4" high on my screen . . . so, if you miss the mark by 1/8" and click near the top of the time ruler, it automatically selects a whole section (on all tracks . . . between the markers) . . . this is something I hardly ever want to do, and find it annoying to always have to escape or cancel all the time when editing. Good god, it's 2025, isn't there a way to turn off the top part of the time ruler selection ? If there is a way, please let me know . . . if there is no way to turn it off . . . just move me to "feature requests"

Bye the way, love what you've done with Track manager, quite the nice facelift . . . great work !

Sonar Free Tier ? . . . So, if I get what you're saying here correctly, is I could cancel my monthly subscription of BandLab Membership if I don't ever intend to use the Plugin Oversampling, Track Manager, Jump-to-Track, Elastique Pro stretch mode, POWR Dithering features, BandLab sounds, or more than one Arranger Track ? Seems too good to be true. In fact, I do use a few of these features, but perhaps only occasionally . . . can we opt back into subscription when we need to use them, then pop back out after mix is exported ? Just had to ask

@SUPAREELS . . . mission accomplished, much fun was had by me too ! Kind of Monty Python for me, "and now for something completely different" . . . yes, very different for you . . . did it feel good to step outside your normal for a bit ? Now I'll just find it hard to go back to that dramatic song I was working on . . . but thanks for the lighthearted break

Most legacy users moved onto the free version of "Cakewalk by BandLab", or use new "Sonar" with the subscription. Your best bet to re-activate your Sonar 2015 version would be to reach out to Cakewalk support. Also, I think you can still install Cakewalk by BandLab (free), which is miles ahead of 2015 anyways. 2015 is the Gibson era, and they are long gone as an owner.

Mark, seems you've already tried a lot of things. How old is your SSD drive ? If one of the tracks you've recorded is corrupted, it won't reach out and tell you . . . only way might be to run "chkdsk /f" from the command line to try a repair. Do you have any external devices plugged in to the laptop, like a USB back up drive, which may cause system interrupts ? Even possible one of your drivers might have a problem. Look in Device Manager for yellow caution signs, or Event Viewer system logs for driver related errors. Hope you get it sorted, want to hear this new tune soon !

@Camero Jones So , 2 posts, and over usage of the word "suck" . . . makes me wonder what was your first post ? . . . a glowing review no doubt. @Kevin Walsh . . . nice post, though, I would be surprised to see this OP actually reach out for help here. I would offer to help, but all I can offer is my experience that Cakewalk software has recently become even more stable than ever before, and that's the main reason I continue to use it, despite subscription confusions. Anyways, it's kind of an over the top misplaced critique of some amazing software, maybe this belongs on another forum, or nowhere at all.

Another great song Paul . . . some excellent vocals, as always . . . was waiting for the sprawling guitar solo, but you kept this one on the story of the lyric. Yes, I really like the story and the very real feeling of it, as it unfolded . . . top notch songwriting !

Mark, this is an awesome version of an amazing song ! I can hear why it stayed with you. Never heard the song, but thanks for introducing us to it here. You don't need me to tell you your recordings and your guitars are always so great, so I'll just tell you your vocal performance is very well done and heartfelt here.

Nigel . . . I'm always in awe how big and full your mixes sound on my small speakers !! The science we all search for I think. Yes, this song is more pop than your usual rock for Devine Lie, really enjoyed it !

You've really got something there, unique sound . . . a shuffle beat with some funk guitar riffs, and the bending notes of the lap steel really make this an interesting piece to listen to. Your description makes it sound like just an experiment . . . but there's a great song idea baking in there somewhere. Top shelf ! (where grandma keeps the cookies)

Knocked it out of the park . . . loved it.

I'm stuck on monthly subscription, and it's simply costing way more per year than my other DAW, which I can keep using, if I don't decide to keep upgrading. Especially wearing thin, since I don't really use most of the salient new Sonar features. Sometimes I think I just continue to pay out of nostalgia, familiarity, support for the Cake bakers. The BandLab extras don't work for me. When the perpetual version comes, I'm there in a heartbeat, if it never comes . . . _ _ _

Which audio interface do you have ? You say Sonar will not open, but you were able to select "no tracks or busses", so it must be kind of opening. It sounds like Sonar is getting stuck trying to rectify the audio set up. This is only my guess, because I had a similar issue recently . . . and you'll certainly have to give the great people here more info on your environment settings to get to the bottom of it.