Bristol_Jonesey

Sou8nds about right. You can always change it back if it doesn't work

If you're talking about CbB v Sonar Free tier then yes, they can be installed side by side.

But with CbB you're living on borrowed time. Activation will no longer be possible sometime after August 1st

If you're talking about Sonar Free tier vs Sonar Premium then I'd like to know how he did this when both versions are tied to one Bandlab account.

Please clarify what versions you mean

1 hour ago, Terry Kelley said:

With all due respect, the items you get if you subscribe  aren’t all that big of a deal. A few are nice additions but don’t stand out as must-haves. Are those supposed make a person want to upgrade?

It doesn’t make sense to me. What am I missing? 

The missing items might or might not incentivise certain users into upgrading, but equally, they're not sufficiently important to ***** prospective users who refuse to pay the sub.

It's a fine line and puts Cakewalk into a very delicate position

Log out of Product Centre and back in again

Try signing out of Product Centre and back in again

1 minute ago, Canopus said:

This is basically a peer-to-peer forum. One can never expect developers and/or support staff attending to every question raised. In fact, sometimes they do, by their own free will, but that's the exception and not the rule.

Fair enough, but if we can't gain their attention here, where do we go?

On 7/8/2025 at 8:34 PM, msmcleod said:

You'll need to ask whoever produced the comparison chart - I wasn't involved in it.

So who produced the chart Mark? Do we have to ask all of the development team, one by one?

I know of about 4 or 5 of you but surely there are more.

18 minutes ago, Canopus said:

Okay, so it seems to be a Color Scheme thing. When using a scheme with brightly colored control backgrounds, like Light or Light Gray, everything looks okay. Using a color scheme with dark control background, the controls are colored in such a way that it's not visible. However, they are selected. Sounds like a pretty easy fix.

Yes. Confirmed.

As you say, easy fix, assuming it's been reported

All radio buttons work as expected here

You probably need to simply resize or enable the Transport module in the Command Bar.

Bounce to CLIP 

Select the entire track

Right click either clip and select Bounce to Clip

CAL scripts are still available in Sonar

1 hour ago, Anders Svensson said:

While I suppose that would technically work, it's an unpractical solution, and the power switch in the plugin still has to be toggled to wake it up.

Oh I agree, and that power switch thing is a bit weird.

Send an email to support@cakewalk.com

Make a track or project template from a project where it does work.

9 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

This makes no mention of Workspaces, Pro Channel, Exporting

@msmcleod Mark, any reason why Workspaces and Export limitations are  not included above?

Thanks Canopus

7 hours ago, tdehan said:

The latest version as of when?  It shows that I have the latest verstion.

 

Well which version is showing on your system?

This makes no mention of Workspaces, Pro Channel, Exporting

Synth Rack View is NOT on the official list of items not available in Free tier. (Neither are Workspace)

My view is that Sub Sonar & Free Tier Sonar should be the same forum.

Yes, that will bring all the newbies on board and they are far more likely to get an answer from the more seasoned users than if they were relegated to post in a separate forum where there could well be a lot less traffic.

Make the Cakewalk forum read only from Sept 1st.

You shouldn't have to reinstall anything. If those plugins were on your system before, Sonar will pick them up on installation.

The only thing you might have to do is revisit the paths referenced in Plugin Manager.

7 hours ago, TVR PRODUCTIONS said:

So, no free tier Sonar for Mac? 

Correct. It's Windows only

11 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

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

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start up Sonar
2. Receive message saying "you need to be online in order to authorize"
3. Go online
4. Sonar authorises
5. Switch off internet
6. Close Sonar
7. Open Sonar
8. Back to step 2 and repeat

I'd rather not have to go online every time I open Sonar.

Is there a fix for this?

Have you updated your offline pc?