Sonar 2025.06 Feedback

[David Baay]

17 hours ago, Tez said:

only the bounce gets deleted while the "preview" lingers, that can't be right and as I stated "This did not happen  with a single instrument midi track test project so it's not typical behavior" this is an anomalous glitch and the cause is a mystery to me...

Project preview files are handled differently; they need to persist in order for preview to work so they don't require re-saving the project. I'm pretty sure this is working as designed. Also, I did a quick test, closing without saving after bouncing an instrument track with nothing else in a new project, and the  two preview files were created as expectedand persisted after closing both the project and Sonar.

[Tez]

6 hours ago, David Baay said:

I'm pretty sure this is working as designed

You may well be correct,  but try this, create an untitled project & keep it untitled, add an instrument, audio & midi tracks, record some midi & bounce the midi to audio. Check the Audio Data folder that's where untitled audio data is found and you'll see just the bounced track no preview files,  and of course closing the untitled project without saving  gets rid of the bounced track...

Repeat the above but  this time save as a named project  with copy all audio checked and in the new audio folder you'll see just the bounced track no preview files.  Delete the bounced track and re-bounce, save the project & both preview & bounce files appear but so does the previous bounce track which should be deleted. Now that ain't right unless I've made an error, don't think I did.  Meanwhile I'll manually delete the useless preview files   😁

[Amberwolf]

FWIW, I'd rather have it err on the side of caution and keep unnecessary data than ever remove any files I might want to keep for any reason.

 

 

[OeAi]

Can you put the <Free License \\ Get Membership> into menu bar or make it +one more menu
it takes 40px but has no sense
for example you can show it on the start, but slide out after loading project
if you can put it in the default windows bar - it's alright too 

the different way - is to put the spectrum analyzer between those <licn> [..''''',,,;;;;;'''' ] <memb>
with 4-6 strings inside, with ability to make it biiger with membership for example

maybe you will be also alright to consider start the <evaluation> window first with logo screen ?
there is only the Cakewalk.Sonar and membership button is shown anyway all the time

For example - when you press - get membership  - this screen features should reappear first
everybody happy
and you can put few more screens to browse there, just with pics of features
maybe linked with manual for prochannel for example

Edited 14 minutes ago by OeAi