New FREE version/tier of the venerable Cakewalk Sonar

[Billy86]

Thanks for the response. I’ve been away from the forum for a while, so I’ll track down feedback and weigh in. Totally unacceptable there’s no way to improve visibility. There is a custom Cakewalk themes link in your signature. Are those for the old Cakewalk?

[Starship Krupa]

14 hours ago, Billy86 said:

There is a custom Cakewalk themes link in your signature. Are those for the old Cakewalk?

Yes.

I'll reiterate: there is no way to create a custom theme for the new Sonar. You can't even change any of the meaningful colors. All you can do is choose from half a dozen color themes that the devs have come up with.

If you'd like this to be another way, please post in the Feedback forum.

[Billy86]

36 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

If you'd like this to be another way, please post in the Feedback forum.

Done. 

[Swone]

Hi excuse my english but what is the difference with sonar prenium and platinum on bandlabs platforms ?

 

[Brian Walton]

4 hours ago, Swone said:

Hi excuse my english but what is the difference with sonar prenium and platinum on bandlabs platforms ?

 

See chart here. https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/85290-current-sonar-release-202506/

[Starship Krupa]

4 hours ago, Swone said:

Hi excuse my english but what is the difference with sonar prenium and platinum on bandlabs platforms ?

Sonar Premium is the full-featured version of Cakewalk's flagship DAW.

SONAR Platinum was a product whose life ended in late 2017 when Gibson, Cakewalk's parent company, dissolved Cakewalk, Inc. SONAR Platinum came with a great deal of bundled plug-ins.

They later sold the Cakewalk intellectual property (not the company, just the intellectual property) to BandLab. BandLab reissued what had been SONAR as "Cakewalk By BandLab." The core program was the same as SONAR Platinum, but did not include most of the bundled software.

The DAW got a major UI update and changed its name to Sonar (mixed case). Up until now, Sonar has only been available as part of a paid BandLab membership. This version is now "Sonar Premium" and is still only available as part of the BandLab membership.

Sonar Free Tier is Sonar minus a few features (plug-in upsampling, multiple arranger tracks, free sound library). It also has a splash screen on start up that encourages the user to upgrade to the premium version. For most people's uses, it will function as well as Sonar Premium, and better than Cakewalk By BandLab.

There are so many free plug-ins around now that bundled software is not as important as it was when SONAR Platinum was still around.

I hope this clears things up. I know it's hard to follow.

[Starship Krupa]

8 hours ago, Billy86 said:

Done. 

I don't see a topic from you there. Are you sure you posted it in the Feedback forum? I'll look in the Sonar forum....