Sonar 2025.11 Feedback

[Jonathan Sasor]

Hi all - please use this topic to post feedback specific to the Sonar 2025.11 release. Release-specific feedback is valuable to us, and consolidating it in a single topic is extremely helpful.

We request that  discussion in this thread be restricted to issues directly concerning this release, to make it easier for us to assist users. For other topics, kindly use the feature request section or create new posts.  Off topic messages will be deleted.

Thanks in advance!

[Skelm]

The file opening bug introduced in the previous version is still there. Browse for a file, and when opening it, the quick start screen displays instead of opening the file. The quick start needs to be closed before the file will start to load. The startup toast notifications are also displaying incorrectly. I have provided support with a video showing this and they have been able to replicate the behaviour. 

[Wookiee]

3 minutes ago, Skelm said:

The file opening bug introduced in the previous version is still there. Browse for a file, and when opening it, the quick start screen displays instead of opening the file. The quick start needs to be closed before the file will start to load. The startup toast notifications are also displaying incorrectly. I have provided support with a video showing this and they have been able to replicate the behaviour. 

Not a bug, if you repeatedly open Sonar from a project in Windows browser, or other method, I recommend you disable the Quick Start from starting period. Quick start can always be opened from the file menu.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, Skelm said:

when opening it, the quick start screen displays instead of opening the file

+1
I experience the same thing quite often. I thought it was a quirk of my particular computer, but I see it's not just me. And I'm almost certain it's a bug, as it doesn't happen in most cases, only with certain projects. I haven't been able to detect any specific data dependencies yet. This started happening somewhere in the second half of 2025, as far as I remember.

I always open projects from within Sonar, using the Start Screen tool; I never launch projects from the files themselves in the project folder. This doesn't happen in the latest version of Cakewalk (Bandlab), and it doesn't happen in Sonar at all, either.

[Bass Guitar]

11 hours ago, Skelm said:

The file opening bug introduced in the previous version is still there. Browse for a file, and when opening it, the quick start screen displays instead of opening the file. The quick start needs to be closed before the file will start to load. The startup toast notifications are also displaying incorrectly. I have provided support with a video showing this and they have been able to replicate the behaviour. 

I just had same issue. From the start screen use browse, open project and start screen opens and prevents project from loading. Close start screen and project loads. 

[Bass Guitar]

I didn't make it since my last post to here. I was trying to draw a CC-1 expression envelope and when I started playback I lost my mouse cursor. I stopped playback with space bar and my mouse would show where is was by opening dialogue boxes. I managed to close and save the project which is just a midi file. My cursor came back. 

 

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[Wookiee]

9 hours ago, Bass Guitar said:

I didn't make it since my last post to here. I was trying to draw a CC-1 expression envelope and when I started playback I lost my mouse cursor. I stopped playback with space bar and my mouse would show where is was by opening dialogue boxes. I managed to close and save the project which is just a midi file. My cursor came back. 

So is this software still this crippled by graphical bugs since I last used in March?? Did I just waist $90? 

 

Presumably all drivers are up to date? Graphics, Mouse, etc?