Sonar Updated to 2025.08 Update 2

[Larry Shelby]

August 22, 2025

For more details about the latest changes, click here.

New in build 31.08.0.035

Various Fixes, optimizations, and usability enhancements

[Premium] Integration for new Cakewalk Core Plugins series. These brand new VST3 plugins are intended to replace the old Cakewalk DX plugins. The plugins are deeply integrated into Sonar and seamlessly migrate the plugin and automation settings from projects containing the old Cakewalk Sonitus DX plugins. The new plugins are efficient and designed to be DPI scalable and easily expandable in the future.

[Premium] Core plugins now activate automatically using Single-Sign-On (SSO) host authentication. i.e. no extra steps are required to activate the Core plugins other than signing in to your BandLab account from within the DAW.

A toast notification is now displayed after loading projects, when missing plugins were detected or if plugins were replaced with newer compatible VST3 versions. Clicking the Show button in the notification will show the plugin details.

New dialog to show plugins replaced when they are upgraded to VST3

Optimizations:

Improved application startup processing

Optimized access to the VST plugin catalog. This speeds up several operations across the application including the following:

Application start-up time improvements.

Scanning VST plugins

Loading and saving projects with many VST plugins

Loading project templates and FX Chains.

Inserting, deleting and copying plugins

Plugin menus

Reduced CPU load for meters in the console providing more UI bandwidth.

Improved responsiveness when slip editing clips in the clips view during playback.

Fixed:

Crash when onboarding finishes on first launch.

FX Bin shows incorrect state on project reopen

Crown displayed when app is has full Membership in Transpose menu

Start Screen fails to respond correctly after being launched from Onboarding

Start screen doesn't open when a template is set to load at startup

Articulations deleted when using transform tool in PRV

Dragging vertical scrollbar thumb fails to work properly in large projects

Console View Splitter width fails to persist on scaled displays

REGRESSION: Workspace no longer loaded on app startup

[kitekrazy1]

I have yet to install the new version

[Larry Shelby]

1 hour ago, kitekrazy1 said:

I have yet to install the new version

I have the free version installed.  That's as much as they get from me...