The Early Access Program is Now Live for the Upcoming Release of SONAR 2017.07

This month’s release for SONAR Platinum, Professional, and Artist brings new features along with fixes & enhancements to many key elements of SONAR. 
 

Recently Used Plug-ins

SONAR now keeps track of the last 5 Audio FX and Soft Synths. You can find these in the insert menus for Audio FX and Soft Synths as well as the Add Track Flyout on the Instruments tab. This works seamlessly with any plug-in layout and allows for quick access to the plug-ins you recently used without diving through a lot of menus or searching.
 
Artist, Professional, and Platinum
 


Bus Pane Aim Assist

Aim Assist has always been available in the Track view but not available in it’s Bus pane. In the Piano Roll view, we recently made Aim Assist available in the Controller pane so that data from the Controller pane can be easily lined up to the notes in the Piano Roll view. We have now added similar behavior to the Track view’s Bus pane so that automation in the Bus pane can now be easily lined up to automation or clips in the Track view.
 
Artist, Professional, and Platinum

Fixes and Enhancements

This update includes many fixes and enhancements that cover multiple aspects of SONAR.
Artist, Professional, and Platinum
 
General

Using SONAR with a 64 sample buffer size could cause issues when 64 bit Double Precision was enabled. This was discovered using the Adaptive Limiter but could affect any plug-in.

Track View, Track View In-line Piano Roll, and Piano Roll View now have consistent behavior when thinning grid lines during zooming in and out

Resolved a possible crash when using 2 finger scrolling on the track pad

Editing operations in large projects are now 10x faster. This affects Split, Move, Undo, Redo, and Ripple Editing

Zooming and scrolling in projects with many clips & crossfades is now more responsive

AudioSnap

Using AudioSnap to Split Beats could previously cause SONAR to become unresponsive when trying to display all the split clips

Memory usage with AudioSnap has been reduced by 75% when using it to Split Beats without editing the transient markers

Browser

Dragging plug-ins from the Plug-in Browser would previously collapses folders after inserting the plug-in into the project

Ripple Editing

MIDI events will now be shortened or lengthened when Ripple Editing if the end of a note is selected or the selection is in the middle of a note. This prevents notes from getting deleted or truncated unexpectedly in some situations during a ripple edit

MIDI clips are no longer split in some situations. This is to help preserve clips that contain long notes.

Snap Module

Disabling Snap previously created problems with showing triplets and dotted settings, These buttons will now stay lit to better indicate what Grid Lines are being displayed when Snap is Off

Snap settings could previously become changed unexpectedly if they were altered when Snap was Off

The Control Bar’s Smart Grid option is no longer disabled on cancel out of the menu

Staff View

Arrow keys now change track selection in the Track Pane of the Staff View

Step Sequencer

Click + Dragging in Step Sequencer could cause SONAR UI to stop updating momentarily until mouse up

Track View

Aim Assist now feels more responsive and moves smoothly in the Track View

Resolved an issue where Copy & Paste with lanes closed could result in overlaps on the same lane

Track View Grid wouldn’t update after changing the snap settings

Track View wouldn’t always follow (non-smart) grid line settings in the Snap Control Bar module

The Time Ruler no longer shows additional ticks when set to Smart Grid.This now displays only the Beat markers.

The Track View In-line Piano Roll didn’t follow snap setting in some situations

To participate, you can obtain the Early Access release via:

• Cakewalk Command Center under the Rollback menu. Steps:
  • Start Command Center
  • Click the Settings button
  • Click the Check Now button
  • In the Connected Products list, right-click on the product or suite name you want early access to
  • Choose Rollback > Early Access 2017.07 from the context menu
• Through your products download page, under "Available Downloads."
  • Click the "Show Other Downloads" button to reveal the link.

If you encounter any critical issues prior to official public release, post them to the Problem Reports Forum. Please include SONAR 2017.07 Early Access in the post title, and refrain from including issues not related to SONAR 2017.07 as they may get missed. We’ll do our best to lock posts as we confirm the reports.
 
Thank you for your participation,
Cakewalk