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According to those who are members, you will still receive the Sonar advertising message when using CbB, so the only ways to stop receiving the message are to stop using it or stay offline when you do.

It is intentionally not possible to turn that off.

I think the type of support your comment refers to is a different type of support than what the OP was referring to: I submitted a query to Bandlab support last Friday evening. It is now been 3 weekdays (in Australia) since then, and I haven't heard from Bandlab yet.

As far as I know, the new Sonar has little or no enhancements in the areas of score editing and video compatibility as of yet.

Just in case, you may want to check this: When you installed Dorico (and Cubase), they probably also installed Steinberg's virtual ASIO driver. I eventually learned that this can cause severe problems for Cakewalk DAWs. It did for me when I installed Dorico, though my symptom was not exactly the same, CbB would be stuck in a never ending cycle of displaying a pop-up box for a split second and repeating. The pop-up box was not on the screen long enough for me to decipher what it was saying, so I used my camera to capture a video of it and stopped the video at a point where the pop-up box was visible. It vaguely referred to an ASIO driver of some sort, which jogged my memory about Steinberg products always installing such things. Sure enough, it had been installed. As soon as I uninstalled it via the Windows Control Panel Programs and Features, CbB returned to normal operation. The Steinberg products don't need the virtual driver if you already have an audio interface using ASIO, so it is not a problem to uninstall it.

In the other thread about FIRST, there is a recent post indicating that the original download (FIRST) has been replaced with a new one (FIRST Free) that addresses this issue. I haven't downloaded and tried it yet, but that is hopeful.

I'm having the same issue after importing FIRST into an existing authorized version of ReMatrix Player. With the presets from FIRST, all of the IRs say <Unlicensed IR> and do not actually load into the plugin, so it does nothing but pass the input audio to the output.

AZSlow, thank you so much for doing this!!! I gave it a try on a very simple .cwp file with audio and midi, and it worked as advertised. I may be using this quite a bit in the future!

It was posted yesterday, I saw it here. I looked for it here today and did not see it. Draw your own conclusions.

Sonar X3 was the last version that used a serial number / authorization code licensing scheme. If you have those for your copy of X3, that is all you need. There is no requirement to do anything on line. (Although you may have received your authorization code via email all those years ago.)

I'm probably going to purchase Dorico 5 Elements, also 50% off. Elements has a surprisingly high percentage of the pro features, missing only some of the things that people creating scores for publication might need. I don't need those things, so I think Elements is a great value at the sale price. You may also want to check out NotePerformer, which works with Dorico Pro/Elements, and uses AI to interpret the score and automatically translate the markings into all kinds of manipulations, resulting in very expressive performances when playing back well marked scores. This reduces the amount of smarts needed to achieve that 😉. Think of it as an alternative to spending hours and hours on midi editing, envelopes, articulation maps, etc, in a DAW.

To keep expectations realistic, this is what was in the most recent CbB maintenance update: Updated to 29.09.0.108 (July 3, 2024) Fixes in build 29.09.0.108 Regression: Per Output Instrument Track disabled in Add Track flyout menu. BandLab API updates. Changes (build 29.09.0.098) CbB has been updated to work with the new Cakewalk Product Center. Offline activation is now available via Product Center. Improvements to sign in process with new activation response and error pages. Signing in to BandLab no longer redirects you to the BandLab portal after sign in. Cakewalk no longer automatically launches the browser to sign in at app startup. The Sonar promotional window should not appear when running CbB offline (at this time). Updates for Sonar promotional window content. Fixed problems with unresponsive Sonar promotional window. Fixes for analytics and app startup. Fixes for in-app updates.

There is also this chart that does a pretty good job of comparing the different versions: https://www.sonuscore.com/guests/downloads/Articulation_Comparison_TOEL.pdf

FWIW, Kontakt allows multpile instruments within a single instance and assigning separate midi channels to each instrument.

The Essentials version of Sonuscore's The Orchestra is on sale for $49.50 at the Sonuscore website at the moment. Not sure for how long.