Bristol_Jonesey

Have you updated your offline pc?

What bug? Have you reported it?

But as soon as I log on to the 'net, it authorises itself.

I updated my studio pc to 2025.07 today without a hitch. But every time I open Sonar, it asks me to login in order to authorise. I've done this several times hoping it would "stick", but it doesn't. I do not leave my pc online all the time, only for downloads & suchlike, never for general browsing. So, any ideas? Thanks

The subscription for Sonar Premium has been active for over a year. Where have you been. It was recently announced that Cakewalk by Bandlab is set to be phased out from August 1st But there is now a FREE version of Sonar which is exactly the same as Sonar Premium but with a few features disabled.

This has no relevance to the OP's query.

On a professional console you would have to click n number of buttons to send to n number of busses Similarly in Sonar, you have a to click the + sign and select a bus.

That's a shame. If anyone needs it: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2v43oqgjz2aqpkmd76jk9/_Cakewalk-Sonar-Reference-Guide.pdf?rlkey=wrji620px2xqsgby8exvhig81&st=906xaphj&dl=0

From the link I supplied, it says oversampling:

Sonar Platinum is NOT coming back, Sonar is, and it's been available for quite some time. Over a year. The fact you paid money to Gibson is irrelevant, if you have a grievance about this, take it up with them. It's got nothing to do with Bandlab Cakewalk by Bandlab will no longer work sometime after August 1st, depending on where in the 6 monthly cycle your licence is, so get ready to move to something else Your choice in Cakewalk is either Sonar Free Tier or Sonar Premium for which you pay a monthly or annual subscription Sonar Free tier is exactly the same s Premium but with a few things locked down. These may or may not be important to you. Specifically, these are: Plugin Oversampling New Track Manager Jump to Track Elastique Pro Stretch Mode POWR dithering

All old projects work fine here. What are the "other" outputs you're routing to?

Don't hold your breath waiting.

You could look here, 2 clicks away https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Sonar Reference Guide.pdf

The UI of Sonar is the same in Win 10 as it is in Win 11

From threMain Menu, go to File > Quick Start Screen When it's open, make sure there's a check mark in the bottom left of the screen "Show at start"

Yes

Start at "New Features" and take it from there https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Sonar Reference Guide.pdf

Yep. That's exactly what it is. Only applies to Midi tracks or Instrument tracks obviously

Yes you can. Copy them to C:\Cakewalk Content\Sonar\ProChannel Presets

What, in your opinion, is lacking in quality?

While Sonar Free offers the majority of the core features available in Cakewalk by BandLab, some premium capabilities are reserved for BandLab Membership, including plugin oversampling, Elastique Pro time-stretching, multiple Arranger tracks and limited dithering algorithms

Send an email to support@cakewalk.com

So exactly the same chance as any other software company. And I was referencing someone who said they "can pull the plug at any time they wish, which doesn't happen with other companies" Two completely different scenarios, don't you agree?

But what makes you think they will do that?