Sonar 2025.08 Feedback

[David Baay]

50 minutes ago, Wayne Bangert said:

"NOW SLIDER"

Is this referring to the Now Marker? Are you seeing this in more than one project? I can't  repro anything like that.

50 minutes ago, Wayne Bangert said:

Also need a clarification on the new start and end point feature.

Set the Now Marker where you want to set Start or End markers (anywhere other than 1:01:000), right-click the Timeline and choose Set Project Start/End...

So far as I know this is implemented internally and does not involve MCI. The Tranport controls honor these markers and they define the default range for bounce/export when nothing is selected.

Edited Sunday at 09:24 PM by David Baay

[mgustavo]

21 hours ago, David Baay said:

As Promidi suggested, this sounds like either a locked screenset or possibly a Workspace being applied.

Hi, David! Thanks for your reply!
I did a few tests and couldn't reproduce the issue, but it seems sometimes buses move to left on Console View. 
I saw my screenset settings and it looks normal (I usually use screenset 01). Also my Workspace is locked at the moment, as I'm using Sonar Free Tier.

I wonder if that could be related with the fact that I'm using 2 monitors with different resolutions (one is 19" and the other is 21.5")? Also one monitor is with scale and layout at 100% and the other at 125%, could this result in issues on Sonar?

(*) I was thinking about it because I moved Sonar from one monitor to the other and I had an issue with Time Ruler. It was difficult to read the numbers and to insert or delete a time display format.
However I could click on the right corner and time display format menu appeared and I could insert HMSF format. After that Time Ruler was good to go.

Anyway I'll be watching if any of these issues happen again.
Thanks!

Edited Monday at 05:48 PM by mgustavo

[Scott C. Stahl]

I'm running into a problem when lasso selecting all the clips in a project to either drag them forward or back as I change the size of an earlier transition.

When selecting all clips in the project, moving them forward or back is drag/copy rather than just drag/move. This then results in quite a mess. Of course I am not hitting ctrl when I do this BTW.

The workaround has been to use slide of course, but I often prefer just dragging clips to open or close gaps rather than counting measures to determine how much to slide. This only happens when selecting all clips in the project. Also any Melodyne clips will not play after moving unless I render them, which gets a null render, then undo. After rendering again the clip is restored, playing back normally. This project fortunately is early in development just finding proper arrangement with one scratch Vocal Audio track, 2 scr guitar tracks and 12 VI's. Something is def wrong here. I have not tested on other projects yet tho it does do the same thing on diff versions of the same project

[msmcleod]

7 hours ago, Scott C. Stahl said:

I'm running into a problem when lasso selecting all the clips in a project to either drag them forward or back as I change the size of an earlier transition.

When selecting all clips in the project, moving them forward or back is drag/copy rather than just drag/move. This then results in quite a mess. Of course I am not hitting ctrl when I do this BTW.

The workaround has been to use slide of course, but I often prefer just dragging clips to open or close gaps rather than counting measures to determine how much to slide. This only happens when selecting all clips in the project. Also any Melodyne clips will not play after moving unless I render them, which gets a null render, then undo. After rendering again the clip is restored, playing back normally. This project fortunately is early in development just finding proper arrangement with one scratch Vocal Audio track, 2 scr guitar tracks and 12 VI's. Something is def wrong here. I have not tested on other projects yet tho it does do the same thing on diff versions of the same project

Maybe some dirt in your ctrl key?  I only say this because I had exactly the same issue at one point, and that was the cause. 

[pistolpete]

I've uninstalled the old Bandlab and updated the new to current. Sonar opened but it lost TTS-1 and the amp sims. I closed it and nothing starts. I don't get any errors. It just doesn't start.

 

[Promidi]

3 minutes ago, pistolpete said:

I've uninstalled the old Bandlab and updated the new to current. Sonar opened but it lost TTS-1 and the amp sims. I closed it and nothing starts. I don't get any errors. It just doesn't start.

Did you ever have a licence for an earlier version of Cakewalk (earlier than CbB) that did come with TTS-1 and the amp sims?

[pistolpete]

Yes, I've been using this software in various incarnations for decades. It looks like when I uninstalled the old BandLab software, it deleted those. After rebooting, the software returned but TTS-1 and TH3 are now gone. What a mess. 😒

[pistolpete]

I did a scan and found those still in other directories. I am wondering if somehow the licenses got destroyed when I uninstalled.

[Promidi]

4 minutes ago, pistolpete said:

Yes, I've been using this software in various incarnations for decades. It looks like when I uninstalled the old BandLab software, it deleted those. After rebooting, the software returned but TTS-1 and TH3 are now gone. What a mess. 😒

What happens if you install the latest incarnations that comes with TTS-1 and TH3 and then reinstall the current Sonar.  Note, to install TH3 Cakewalk edition, you will need to install the Boutique Suite or the updated version from Overloud.

Note: Before I installed Sonar 2025, I also uninstalled CbB, but left Sonar Platinum installed.  I still have TH3 and TTS-1 usable in Sonar 2025.

[itzaStudio]

Hi

Where are my waveforms?

[Salvatore Sorice]

I'm no expert, but doesn't (Busy) on each clip mean something is rendering?

[Jonathan Sasor]

3 hours ago, itzaStudio said:

Hi

Where are my waveforms?

The clips displaying Busy means the waveforms haven't been drawn yet. This could be for a number of reasons. First make sure that your audio device is working properly in the Preferences. If they still don't draw, you can try purging  the contents of your Picture Cache folder which will then have Sonar redraw all the wave images on project load. The default location for the Picture Cache is C:\Cakewalk Projects\Picture Cache. 

[Scott C. Stahl]

20 hours ago, msmcleod said:

Maybe some dirt in your ctrl key?  I only say this because I had exactly the same issue at one point, and that was the cause. 

Only Happens when lassoing all the clips, but I won't dismiss your idea. I'll take a look and experiment

[Scott C. Stahl]

8 minutes ago, Scott C. Stahl said:

Only Happens when lassoing all the clips, but I won't dismiss your idea. I'll take a look and experiment

I tried it with just 3 or 4 tracks, Drag move. Tried with all, Drag copy. Tried it a few more ways and finally selecting all again, suddenly drag move.

I hit the CNTRL keys several times fast to get them cleared. Now everything seems ok again. Hmm something new after all these years. Thanks for the heads up!