Restoring the Sonar window from minimized to full?

[Cobus Prinsloo]

Hi all.

Occasionally, Sonar refuses to restore itself from a minimized state to a full window. For some reason, when I switch to another program and try to switch back, Sonar refuses to be restored. I tried various methods; even Alt + Tab does nothing when Sonar is selected. And it is still running. It even displays a pop-up mini screen if I hover the mouse over the thumbnail in the taskbar.  (see screenshot).

The best thing I can do is Ctr +Alt+Del to force quit and restart. The only thing is, I have lost some work as a result.

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm on Windows 10.

[Chaps]

Have you tried holding down the Windows key and using the arrow keys?

[Amberwolf]

I doubt this is it, but if you have any plugins or synths / etc with open floating windows, even if they were minimized, perhaps they are interfering.   If you do have some, try closing them before minimizing SONAR and retest.  

[Astraios]

This might sound like a joke...Have you ever tried pressing "show desktop" once or twice in the bottom right corner of the Windows taskbar? That gave me access to Sonar again and I didn't have to close it with the Task Manager.

[Promidi]

On 5/1/2025 at 4:15 PM, Cobus Prinsloo said:

Hi all.

Occasionally, Sonar refuses to restore itself from a minimised state to a full window. 

I can make this behaviour manifest by doing the following:

· Open Sonar. 
· Open the PRV and then have the any articulation map window open (EG Choose Articulation or Articulation Map Editor). 
· Press WIN+M key to minimise all windows.

Cakewalk will minimise. 

However, Cakewalk will not restore.  The only way I have found to restore the Cakewalk when when it is in this state is open Cakewalk again from the desktop or start menu icon.  This will restore the existing Cakewalk session, complete with the articulation map window.

I think this might actually be a Windows issue rather than Sonar per-see 

Note: Winkey + D does not exhibit this behaviour.

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

Right click it on the taskbar and then select it

[Promidi]

1 hour ago, Mark Morgon-Shaw said:

Right click it on the taskbar and then select it

Tried all that..... nothing works....  

[Astraios]

On 5/3/2025 at 9:43 PM, Promidi said:

Open Sonar. 
· Open the PRV and then have the any articulation map window open (EG Choose Articulation or Articulation Map Editor). 
· Press WIN+M key to minimise all windows.

Cakewalk will minimise. 

However, Cakewalk will not restore.  The only way I have found to restore the Cakewalk when when it is in this state is open Cakewalk again from the desktop or start menu icon.  This will restore the existing Cakewalk session, complete with the articulation map window.
 

@Promidi Excuse me, but does this also happen in Sonar's floating window mode (when PRV is in floating mode)?

Edited May 4 by Astraios

[Astraios]

Here middle in the night with:  Winkey+D

 

 

[Promidi]

52 minutes ago, Astraios said:

@Promidi Excuse me, but does this also happen in Sonar's floating window mode (when PRV is in floating mode)?

Yes.

[Cobus Prinsloo]

On 5/4/2025 at 5:43 AM, Promidi said:

The only way I have found to restore the Cakewalk when when it is in this state is open Cakewalk again from the desktop or start menu icon. 

Yup -- this worked! It just happened to me again, and I followed your advice. Thank you!

[jimlynch22]

On 5/3/2025 at 5:26 PM, Promidi said:

Tried all that..... nothing works....  

I have sonar pinned to the win 11 taskbar. When I froze Sonar with Win-M, I was able to restore it by right clicking on the Sonar taskbar icon and I got a menu with a list of recent files and an entry "Cakewalk Sonar".  Clicking on that brought it back to life.

 

Edited July 6 by jimlynch22
goofy pic upload