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Yeah, but I had to click the X every day to close the message--every time I launched. Too much extra work! Haha. Why would anyone want to be online during a session? True story: a client of mine was in the middle of a guitar solo--a good performance to that point--when an update message from Windows popped on the screen. Client noticed it and lost concentration, messing up the take. After that, I didn't want my music computer online. Not sure how offline activation works. I'll check it out when the time comes.

Build 109 (membership version) has been very stable on my Win 10 system for what I'm doing--not much with midi, mostly audio tracking. At first I missed the appearance of old Cakewalk--the black lines between tracks seemed to be thicker--but the new look Sonar is really growing on me, and it does seem to be sharper and easier on the eyes. I appreciate that the nag screen to connect to the Internet for full features has been moved to a line on the startup/projects window. I stay off-line as much as possible. So, I'm digging it.

This makes free version pretty much unusable for me.

Relatively new member. I find the frequent online activations unnecessary and annoying. Of course I can disconnect from the Internet afterwards, but being forced to renew activations every couple of months or whatever is weirdly totalitarian.

And use them separately? Or is having a membership (I have a membership) going to override the free tier?

Yean, man! I keep everything backed up twice on two external hard drives!

Thanks!!! This is exactly what I wanted to know. Now to install the new Sonar!

Hi, Bristol. So backwards compatibility is possible? To what extent? I would expect a placeholder for Sonar-only plugins when opening in old Cakewalk a project saved in new Sonar.

Hi, everyone! Just took a recent discounted offer for Bandlab membership for the first time. I was about to download the new Sonar when something occured to me: I have been using Cakewalk by BandLab (and the Cakewalk before that) for many years and have a couple dozen projects I'm still working on. If I open and save those projects in the new Sonar, will the projects still be compatible (at least opening them) with the old Cakewalk by BandLab? Can I never go back to old Cakewalk with a project saved in Sonar? I understand that any new functions and plug-ins from Sonar would not carry over to old Cakewalk. But I wonder if it's best just to complete the old projects in Cakewalk by BandLab and then create new ones in the new Sonar.

Hey!!! I was just about start a similar discussion with a similar issue. I get a stuck note that continue on forever, but this seems to happen only with VPS Avenger synth. I don't have the same problem with Omnisphere. I have tried two different keyboard controllers--the Roland A-88 and the Behringer UMX610, both with their respective drivers installed. Both exhibit the same behavior--a random stuck note. There also seems to be a lack of reponsiveness with the keyboards, an occasional dead key strike. When I use the virtual keyboard within Avenger, there are no stuck notes. I cannot really play that virtual keyboard, of course. Moreover, I tried both keyboard controllers to trigger Avenger in Studio One. No problem there!! The problem is only in Cakewalk. Is this a bug in the Cake? I'm using Win10 with the very latest CbB.

Just discovered the Tempo Track. Didn't know it existed! Looks very promising for the very task I want to do. Need to learn how to use it. You can just drag particular sections up and down to change tempos. The transitional curves look cool, too!

Thanks, guys. The problem is that I have multiple tempo changes--like 9 changes--throughout the tune, and I may only want a temporary change in say the third and sixth tempos--so I can add drum parts at a slower speed before returning to a faster tempo. So, I'm going to have to be doing a bunch of tempo changes just to temporarily do changes in two of nine sections. It would be nice just to select a region and change only that region. Cakewalk! New feature!!!!

Thanks, guys. The problem is that I have multiple tempo changes--like 9 changes--throughout the tune, and I may only want a temporary change in say the third and sixth tempos--so I can add drum parts at a slower speed before returning to a faster tempo. So, I'm going to have to be doing a bunch of tempo changes just to temporarily do changes in two of nine sections. It would be nice just to select a region and change only that region. Cakewalk! New feature!!!!

Hello! I've been using Cakewalk since it was Sonar 2.2, but I never figured this out--probably because I didn't need it too often. I would like to change tempo in a section in the middle of a song without affecting the tempos around that section. I was hoping it was as easy as selecting the region in the time ruler, then inserting a new tempo, but that doesn't seem to work--it affects the rest of the song. Is there a way do change tempo only for a middle section? Thanks!!

Thanks, Hatstand. I'm tentatively optimistic that the issue is resolved. It appears that the 20H2 update installation may not have been complete. I ran the check for updates again, and there was a further update to 20H2 indicated, a more recent one. That, fingers crossed, seems to have fixed things. The first update was definitely a problem for me.