Download SONAR Mods Duckbar 2 - it's cool, free and a must for a SONAR power user :)

Thank you sir!!!

2.0.2 is available.
Protection "finish" dialog issue and version numbering are fixed.
 
Minimized Duckbar is restored by clicking the Duck. I'll test Duckbar later with 125% display size!
 

Thank you!

It has already so many features I can't list them out of my head... Floating toolbar to ignite SONAR commands, very powerful customization capabilities, extra buttons in certain SONAR views and tons of other features you didn't know you need before getting used to then with Duckbar.
 
Read SONAR Mods forums to learn more. There are screen captures, too.

panup
It has already so many features I can't list them out of my head... Floating toolbar to ignite SONAR commands, very powerful customization capabilities, extra buttons in certain SONAR views and tons of other features you didn't know you need before getting used to then with Duckbar.
 
Read SONAR Mods forums to learn more. There are screen captures, too.

Can it make a half dozen sends show up at one time and 20% more channels visible in the mixer?    

Southpaw3473,
I'd like to know more details of your problems with Duckbar. Could you try the newest version again and send me the log.txt file after a test run? Run also compatibility checker from Main menu | Help and see if it can find anything.  I have currently very limited possibilities to test Duckbar on Windows 8.1 which may be behind your issues... Any hints to repair problems are valuable!
 
-Panu

> Did you make the active-track text-glow color to be customizable?
 
It may be customizable in Duckbar's  EXE Colors editor (it can tweak even hundreds of hard-coded colors that are not accessible via SONAR preferences). If you're really interested, visit sonarmods.com and ask help from ZMODs, the EXE Color guru.

Hey Panu,
I re-ran the installer under compatibility mode and it seemed to install correctly this time. I'm glad to have the Redd fader caps back! Now if I can figure out how to make the active track color more visible I will be one happy camper! I'll head over to SonarMods and see if ZMODS has any ideas

clintmartin

smallstonefan
Are there any videos or screen shots to help better understand exactly what this does?

+1. Screenshots would be nice.

 
Main window
 

Default floating toolbar (add & remove buttons in Duckbar settings dialog)
Default buttons from left to right:

1. Duckbar
2. Toggle audio engine
3. Toggle track height
4. Open Track President (Duckbar's Track Manager where you can batch freeze & unfreeze audio tracks and synths and make list of tracks to clipboard)
5. Toggle take lanes of selected tracks (not possible in SONAR)
6. Toggle automation lanes of selected tracks (not possible in SONAR)
7. Tap Tempo dialog
8. Delay Time Calculator dialog (shows given tempo's 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/2T, 1/4T, 1/8T, 16/T etc. values in milliseconds) - use to set optimal compressor release, reverb pre delay and normal delay times.
9. "32" - disable currently open 32 bit VST plugins from being on top of other windows
10. Toggle automatic crossfades
11. Save project
12. Save project as...
13. Widen all console strips
14. Narrow all console strips
15. Show Console view
16. Toggle bus pane
17. Toggle navigator
18. Expand plugin tree (hidden by default in Duckbar 2.0.0 and newer)
19. Show Piano roll
20. Show Staff view
21. Markers view
22. Add marker
23. Go to previous marker
24. Go to next marker
25. Step sequencer
26. Open SONAR PDF Guide

 

Utilities Menu Editor
 
In Utilities Menu Editor you can add & remove & modify SONAR's Utilities Menu entries. No need to hassle with the Windows registry editor anymore! :)
 
How to add an audio editor:
- Click Add button
- Browse program path
- Select item type "WaveEditor"
- Leave Comannd line options empty (no need for %1)
- Click OK to close edit form and another OK to close Utilities Menu Editor.
- Done.
 
The following features are available while Duckbar is running:
 

Console View buttons next to Options sub menu: Widen strips, Narrow strips, Toggle Tracks, Toggle Buses, Toggle Mains
 

Piano Roll buttons: select note length (whole, quarter, eight ..., .=dotted, 3=triplet), Toggle controllers, Toggle tracks pane
 

Staff view buttons: note length buttons, Sep Sequencer, Run CAL script (opens list of CALs in the CAL folder), Toggle Tracks Pane
 
More to come...
 
 

Click Duckbar Main menu | Help | Compatibility Check. Copy & paste results if it finds any issues.
 

Bizarrely, the log entries end from this past March. There is no record of anything after that. The compatibility check all passed.

Only 64 bit

I've tried using the instructions above, but as soon as I launch Duckbar under Windows 8.1 I immediately receive the error "Duckbar has stopped working" and it crashes. It does this when running as administrator as well...

Panu,
I don't have that dialog box.
 

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