Cakewalk 2016.11 is now available!

Cakewalk 2016.11 is now available!

This month Cakewalk’s 2016.11 release for SONAR Platinum, Professional, and Artist brings enhancements to some key elements of SONAR. Improved Built-in Audio Support, Lenses, Matrix View Enhancements, Melodyne Essential 4.1, and much more have all been added to this month’s rolling update.
 
The SONAR 2016.11 update is now available via Command Center. To download the update visit Command Center and click the Check Now button in settings or the My Products page for your account.

New Features:

Improved Built-in Audio Support: With new WASAPI drivers, SONAR now delivers extremely low-latency performance with laptops and tablets that can rival pro audio devices—we’re talking truly high-performance mobile setups, whether for Artist, Professional, or Platinum. 
 
Lenses: The new “Lenses” feature optimizes the SONAR UI based on what you want to do – record your guitar or vocal, edit drum loops, or mix your song --  Lenses will give you the right tools at the right time – nothing more, nothing less. Get started with built-in Lenses, then customize them to create your SONAR. 
 
Matrix View Enhancements: Those of you who’ve wanted to see some love for the Matrix View will be very happy to check out the latest improvements, which speed up workflow and allow much more flexible Cell manipulation—as well as tightening the relationship of Cells to the Track View and timeline. 
 
Melodyne Essential 4.1: Melodyne’s pitch-correction software is already widely considered the best collection of pitch and time correction tools, but this free update takes it to another level with better comping workflow, improved sound quality when stretching with ARA, a new Track Edit mode, and more. 
 
Melodyne Studio 4.1 Multitrack Support: If you own Melodyne Studio, in addition to other Melodyne 4.1 features SONAR now supports Studio’s multitrack workflow. This makes it much easier to work on multitrack projects because you can edit multiple tracks simultaneously, as well as view one track while editing another. 
 
Browser Notes Tab: It’s important to keep notes on your projects. Now notes are integrated right into the Browser, and it’s so convenient songwriters will appreciate being able to jot down lyrical ideas quickly. You can even add custom artwork that will be displayed in the Start Screen. 
 
Improved New User Audio & MIDI Setup: To improve the first time user experience, SONAR will now walk you through getting set up the first time you launch the program. This will help ensure that new users, or users switching to a new computer or interface, can start making music immediately. 
 
Synth Handling Improvements: The Synth Rack has a lot going for it, specifically the assignable controls. However the only way you could access them was by undocking the Browser, or docking the entire Browser in the Multidock. Now the Synth Rack can live in the Multidock all by itself, or in the Browser. 
 
Control Bar Lock and Justify: Now that you can store Control Bar configurations in Lenses, you can choose to limit the number of modules to simplify your workspace. And with the ability to justify left and right, the modules can be spread out across the Control Bar to make them easier to access quickly. 
 
New Start Screen Behavior: With more and more users choosing to use the Start Screen to access projects or start new ones, it was inconvenient to have to call it up whenever you closed a project. Now you can choose to have the Start Screen appear automatically when you close a project. 
 
Fixes and Enhancements: This update included many fixes and enhancements that cover multiple SONAR aspects including the audio engine, the Matrix View, The Staff View, and Full Screen mode.
 
Fixes and Enhancements:

- Various audio engine improvements for WASAPI Exclusive driver mode

- Fixed glitching with WDM/WaveRT drivers on devices that have a prefered buffer size

- Plug-ins are hidden behind floating windows when the floating window is focused

- Dragging from Matrix View to Clips Pane draws correctly and drops in the correct location

- Full screen mode now restores to original app size

- SONAR Artist EQ Module had wrong text color

- Undo Delete Synth reconnects to the correct Synth in the Synth Rack

- Re-doing a drop into the Matrix View to create a cell restores color properly

- Replacing Matrix View cells restores the original correctly on undo

- Clearing a Step Seq pattern no longer orphans Matrix Cells linked to the pattern

- Preview in Loop Construction view always begins at the start of the clip

- 32-bit Boost 11 is properly categorized in the plug-in database

- Note head is visible, as expected, when selected with the right-click lasso

- Clef types are consistent in the Staff View Layout dialog

- LANDR is now downloaded from the Utilities Menu, and has been removed from the SONAR C3 download

 
Learn more:
Download the SONAR 2016.11 EZine

Thanks to all the Bakers

Bummer. Still no fix for Delete Hole.
Ripple Edit still not implemented.
How much longer?

Lance Riley [Cakewalk]
Browser Notes Tab: It’s important to keep notes on your projects. Now notes are integrated right into the Browser, and it’s so convenient songwriters will appreciate being able to jot down lyrical ideas quickly. You can even add custom artwork that will be displayed in the Start Screen. 
 

 
I like this integration and expansion of the project file.

Just wanted to throw some love out to the e-zine. As a professional content creator (training materials) I appreciate the work that goes into it. If you download the updates and don't follow up by reading the e-zine, you're really missing out. Kudos guys.
 

I love many of the new tools and features Thank you!. Please please can we fix the Editing (drag drop/ delete whole ect..)  I would like to request a huge improvement to the automation. Its really clunky  (very slow) hard to use I think it needs to be simplified. I preferred when the lines of automation were all "on" the track not in a lane. Can we go back to that like 8.5  or have an option for both? Too many clicks back and forth. Lane don't open up full screen its really a cumbersome. Thanks :)

I hate to crash the party and have been a happy consumer since before Sonar was Sonar BUT....my first ever GUI complaint.

The synth rack change is a huge pain in the ass.  As a workaround I loaded up my template, engaged the synth rack and docked it to the right - cool it went into the same bar as the browser.  So far so good.

Hit the double left arrow to open the browser and synth rack.  So far so good again. They opened together.

Went to close them and....no double right arrow ?  Huh ?  Do I have to "collapse" both of them to regain my screen real estate ?


Not digging this change, guys....

The Notes Browser is Greatly appreciated. It is The update that knocked it out-of-the park for me.

e.Blue

Skyline_UK
Thanks scook.
A clunky retrograde step in my view.

I'll admit it was a bit disconcerting for me as well, especially since they stuck in the Notes pane, which I may never use. Being able to dock it separately is OK but they should have at least allowed you to view the extra controls without needing to Undock it. Otherwise, I don't really see any real benefit to changing a feature that many people like myself use constantly.
 
-e.B
 

agreed

If you are using a rocksmith cable try using WASAPI exclusive. You will get even lower latency typically since it will go down to a buffer size as low as 3 msec. Of course round trip latency depends on your audio hardware itself but it should be very usable with just the cable and stock laptop audio. 
This can be super useful when you are travelling and need to do a scratch track.

Thank you. But... no actual and critical bugfixes. Again. Busses still not selecting on click, and any clip fx causes crashing after export audio. And more. More :(

Lance Riley [Cakewalk]
Melodyne Studio 4.1 Multitrack Support: If you own Melodyne Studio, in addition to other Melodyne 4.1 features SONAR now supports Studio’s multitrack workflow. This makes it much easier to work on multitrack projects because you can edit multiple tracks simultaneously, as well as view one track while editing another. 

 
Thank you, thank you sooooo much! I can't begin to explain how relieving it is to finally be able to use melodyne studio to it's potential inside SONAR.  Thank you!
 

Can't use my Presonus Faderport with this update - 
 
It says - MIDI Device Failure
Device name                   Reason reported by Windows
 
Faderport                        There is not enough memory available.........