RD9
 
I feel for you both; Craig for his long time frustration that many don't read his eZine page and rhWheeler for his difficulty with locating it.  Many of us have experienced problems with its location and have suggested a more prominent presence.  It is one of those "Once you know where it is, you know where it is"  but until you finally learn where CW is putting it, the eZine remains much like a "Holy Grail" of useful information.

I am the official Rodney Dangerfield of Cakewalk . Glad those who can track it down find it useful, but also, don't forget that the help files get updated with each release, and sometimes they include additional details...the eZine is more about descriptions and applications than down-in-the-weeds details.

Anderton

Notecrusher
I can't figure out how to disable the new start screen?

I wish more people would read the release eZine, many of the questions posed in the forum after release are answered in there.

You shouldn't have to read the ezine to learn how to not get something that wasn't there before. I had the previous start screen toggled off. I had it toggled off via the checkbox that was right on the old start screen itself, which is standard. Lots of s/w has start screens.
 

dappa1
Works like a gem and I am loving it...it is very organised and simple to use...This has really made my day!
 
I do not have to go looking for songs to review them or to click every song to find out what it is. I can easily see and detect them. I can tag the songs I am working on or put a list of songs that need mixing together aswell as work on new projects and finish them and move them along. I can now focus on starting and finishing a project, locating it and sorting out a more intuitive way to work. It is great! 

Really nice update... Seems like the start screen is a build up for a collaboration thing..

Thumbs up Cake.. I love it..

Odd, command center is not showing me any updates.  Am I missing something?
 

Here's a few things that I'm noticing with this update. Some of this has already been listed in other threads. I will say that I do like the new Start Screen and templates
1) On the Start screen I too can not open projects where I have them saved. My path is as follows: C:\Users\Carl\Documents\Cakewalk Projects\Carl's Originals
2) When I pin a project I cannot unpin it. So now I've got three versions of a song I'm working on and they are all pinned
3) I don't see pictures for the projects either. I have saved 2 version in the new Hopkinton release and still only see a black box. I'm not sure what I should see.
4) When I installed the new update it cleared out my audio devices in Audacity so when I launched it said it couldn't find audio devices and that I wouldn't be able to play or record audio. I did get this resolved but I thought it was something worth noting. I know it was the update because audacity was working the night before. The next morning I updated and then tried to launch audacity later that day and this issue was discovered. Oh, when I went to my audio playback devices the default was set to my M-Audio device instead of my internal Realtek device.
 
Carl
 

Doktor Avalanche
Better check all your file paths in Sonar preferences and CCC settings.

They all look as they should.
I was wondering if this is caused by the problem with start menu not finding the correct path to my projects. So checking this out I selected a project that didn't have a tick in the path or the name. I opened it from Existing Projects and saved it. Then closed it. When the start menu appeared I reopened it with out a problem. I then pinned it. I closed Sonar down and reopened it and I was able to unpin the project.
But the icon is still just black.
End result, the problem with the path not found also seems to be causing the unpin problem on those projects. 

You aren't using Gloucester or earlier any more.

The actual expected behaviour is in the documentation regardless of what your expectations may be. That's why they document stuff. Cheers..

Notecrusher
The EXPECTED behavior is what I outlined above.

 
I guess you know far better than the documentation you didn't read then. You win .

" It's when s/w DOESN'T behave as expected that one must turn to the documentation"
 
You seem to think it's your job to decide what is expected not Cakewalk. I suggest you go and apply straight away for the design and documentation team then.
 
BTW it might be what you think is "expected" and I'm sorry don't agree with you, I actually think Cake's done that bit right. But it neither matters what any of us think here, it is documented by the designers. So please stop arguing irrelevant points, it's documented so it's not down to what we think. If you think it should change, log an enhancement.
 
Please do me a favor, calm down and go read something. I said "you win" simply because it is clear you are not the sort to back down on the point, so much so you wind yourself up so much, you will then accuse others of trolling (clearly) and being "insulting". Don't be so silly.
 
Give it up... I have.

rwheeler

Anderton
 
I wish more people would read the release eZine, many of the questions posed in the forum after release are answered in there.

Although I had looked at the update summary page, I realized this is not the same as the "release eZine." But it was quite the adventure trying to find the eZine. Searching knowledge base for "eZine" yields links to some for earlier release eZines but not the most recent one (yet). The link on the summary page is disguised as "based on" a pdf file, but no mention of the term "eZine" there.
 
The eZines have great information. I suggest having someone make an easy-to-find page with direct links to all the eZines, or else have a sticky link near the top of the forum with the collection of those links.
 
Over time it might be advantageous to add an annual summary eZine that lists all the improvements made from January through December. Could be a useful marketing tool as well as a useful bit of reference information.

It's awkward to say, but I'm not even sure what the eZine is. Is that the announcement that comes with the release when a monthly release goes live? If so, I'm reading that each time. If it's some other reference page I don't know about it. In either case, if The bakers would like us to learn from the "eZine" it would be helpful if more obvious links or references to it showed up.

Right!

Notecrusher
Here are some things that cause confusion about the ezine:

 
Thanks for pointing these out.
 

- The document doesn't have ezine anywhere in the name. It's called:
SONAR [year] ["codename"] Update

 
eZine isn't a term I coined, it's like category like magazine, book, software, etc. Maybe putting it in the title isn't a bad idea, though, given how many magazines call themselves "[Name] Magazine."
 
- The webpage doesn't have ezine in it either. It's: 
http://static.cakewalk.co.../Welcome_to_the_SONAR_[codename]_Update.pdf
- There IS a link in CCC when you have the SONAR Platinum bulb selected. But it's to a different doc, not the ezine. But some people might think it's the ezine because very confusingly, it has a very similar name. It's called:
SONAR [year] [codename] Update Notes.
It looks rather different though, and it's a KB article and not a PDF. It is "adapted" from the ezine.
 
Yes, I finish the eZine, pass it along to Cakewalk, and they do the update notes from that. 
 
 

Finally got around to playing with Hopkinton. While I am not an amp sim kinda guy, I had so much fun tonight using the new start screen to create a new (throw away) project based on the guitar amp showcase. I love the colors.
 
I turned on all the high gain amps at once, panned each one differently, boosted the bus at 100Hz and jammed away.
 
I am not very creative (or patient or both) so it is nice to make it so easy to sound good!
 
Great job!!!