Sonar 2025.08 Feedback

[pistolpete]

The metronome doesn't work at all. If I set it to MIDI, nothing happens, if I set it to tone, it hangs.

Yes, this moved forward from a licensed version.  I could try a custom installation, but the de-install may have corrupted it. 

[pistolpete]

I solved the TTS-1 issue. I had dust off an old laptop with Sonar installed, search around for all of the TTS-1, compared everything and restored the missing modules. The old Sonar seems so much cleaner and faster than the recent version. I didn't have to wait a minute for an annoying nag screen either. 😉   Too bad it's missing a few features the new one has.

Now I am focusing on GroovePlayer. Although, I don't really use it, the error messages are messy.

[Wookiee]

5 hours ago, pistolpete said:

Actually it was deleted by the Bandlab de-install. It worked perfectly before that.

Glen, do you have any helpful insights as to how I get it back? I have thousands of hours of time spent on projects that have now been rendered useless.

Roland actually requested that Cakewalk stop providing the installer for TTS-1 as they no longer support it. However if you have an old SONAR installer you can install it from there, just do a custom install. Then reinstall the new Sonar to reinstall the more recent shared libraries. 

[pistolpete]

Thanks for the information. I appreciate the help, thank you. 

I had a valid install of this but it was on an older version of Sonar. I was able to copy the files over without this. But it may be handy in the future when they update Sonar again and break things again. 😄

I looked a doing the custom install but it doesn't have a GroovePlayer option. That one is broken too. I'm still working on it. The metronome doesn't do anything. 

[dreamcache]

17 hours ago, Wookiee said:

@dreamcache are you referring to the layout within Sonar? If so are you using Workspaces? The layout is dictated by the Workspace, to fix your problem you have to options. 

1. Don't use Workspaces set your Workspace to none. 

2. Once you have arranged your windows save your Workspace. 

Note plugins will all was open where the last one was closed, irrespective of the plugin.

No, I mean the main Cakewalk window itself. You can see in the video I linked that when I boot up Cakewalk it opens in a really small window hidden behind the quick start window rather than the full sized window that I have to adjust it to. My "feature request" so to speak is that when I open cakewalk the main full window that appears matches the same size and position as it was in when I last closed the program i.e. at the end of my recorded video.

As far as I can tell, it isn't possible to do that currently, and I just feel like it's surely something that every user would benefit from, right? Who doesn't want their window to return to its last position? I struggle to think of a situation where you wouldn't want that. There may be one, but I have to think the majority of users aren't in that boat.

[Wookiee]

@dreamcache, do you use the same template for all your projects? If so try using a different one. Personally the main Cakewalk window opens exactly where I closed it.

What size monitor are you using? Do you have windows text scaling enabled? 

I notice in your video you are letting Windows auto resize the main Cakewalk Window, what happens if you manually resize by dragging the window to you preferred size?